We didn’t see online shopping or streaming services coming, what else are we failing to predict?

Barbara Ehrenreich seeks to undermine all the ways in which contemporary middle-class westerners try to control their lives and forestall their inevitable doom

Web Log: Engineering director Ray Kurzweil predicts what future holds for AI and humans

Mark O’Connell has spent several years talking to people who want to live through robots and technology, and he admits it stems from his own obsession with death

Fear of superintelligent AI has prompted new guidelines that propose close regulation

What comes through our screens does not necessarily represent reality

Our obsession with maintaining an online presence is now creeping into the afterlife

Gamechangers – are you ready to change the world, by Peter Fisk. €29.99, 306pp

Disruptive technology, logic shifts, crazy ideas: these are survival tools and moral compasses for Peter Diamandis

New album The Electric Lady marks the return to the limelight of the fabulous Janelle Monae. She reveals how her musical vision is powered by feminism, futurism, painting and the funk