Every time I read about another advance in AI technology, I feel like another figment of science fiction moves closer to ...

Everyone does have one or two favourite conspiracy theories. Among mine are that Marco Polo never did get to China, and that Donald Trump has not read an entire book in his adult life.

In Stephenson’s novel, the Primer looks like a hardcover book, but each of its “pages” is really a screen display that can show animations and text, and it responds to its user in real time via AI.

Richard Feynman, a famous theoretical physicist who won the Nobel Prize, said that if he could pass on only one piece of ...