Philip K. Dick
Chances are you will wish you were dead: Blade Runner 2049 reviewed
Ridley Scott’s original Blade Runner first came out in cinemas 35 years ago, which I was going to say probably…
Someone in the BBC will be watching W1A, thinking ‘that’s a great idea (going forward)’
On Sunday night, Holliday Grainger was on two terrestrial channels at the same time playing a possibly smitten sidekick of…
Lushly pleasing and full of existential complexity: Sky Atlantic’s Westworld reviewed
The other day James Lovelock, the sprightly 97-year-old inventor of Gaia theory, told a mildly surprised Guardian interviewer that he…
John Gray’s great tour-guide of ideas: from the Garden of Eden to secret rendition
You can’t accuse John Gray of dodging the big questions, or indeed the big answers. His new book The Soul…
How Ridley Scott’s sci-fi classic, Blade Runner, foresaw the way we live today
How Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner, made 33 years ago, foresaw the way we live today, by William Cook
Free speech is so last century. Today’s students want the ‘right to be comfortable’
Free speech is so last century. Today’s undergraduates demand the ‘right to be comfortable’
The surer we are that machines can think, the less sure we'll be about people
Having written (for a Times diary) a few sentences about consciousness in robots, I settled back to study readers’ responses…