AI-driven job losses may not just make it harder for affected workers to find employment in the short term but also could leave a yearslong “scarring,” marked by depressed income, delayed ...

E.M. Forster’s short story “The Machine Stops” can help middle school students assess the impact of over-reliance on digital ...

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I’m a world-class worrier, and one of the many things I worry about is how the exponential pace of technological development will affect society. In particular, I worry about how it will shape — and ...

A global surge in IT equipment prices, driven by an unprecedented spike in memory costs, is threatening to derail the ...

With the Industrial Revolution, which began in Britain in the late 18th century, came the first wave of technology to transform the economic system. In the centuries that followed were further ...

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Mr. Newport is a professor of computer science at Georgetown University and the author of “Deep Work.” Today we take for granted that diet and exercise are vitally important for our health and ...

This article appears in the May 2026 print edition with the headline “The Feeling of Becoming Less and Less of a Person.” ...

The Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation has named 13 new Damon Runyon Fellows, exceptional postdoctoral scientists conducting basic and translational cancer research in the laboratories of leading ...

Information and communication technology (ICT) has reshaped our lives, how we live, how we work, how we entertain ourselves.