Soothsayers of science fiction

Authorial intelligence versus artificial intelligence: an ongoing palaver. We would rather think as little as we can about the possibilities of both; but it seems irresponsible to ignore the intellect

For a few months in 2001, the business world couldn’t stop talking about inventor Dean Kamen’s secret project, codenamed “Ginger”. Kamen had received the National Medal of Technology from US president

PC hardware predictions that never came to pass

LETTERS

Epic yet parochial: the director/writer discusses his first science fiction novel

Did 1989’s Back the Future II make accurate predictions of future technology?