For millennia, the multifarious language of man was ours and ours alone and we were (generally) given to understand that the robot (and before that, golums and minotaurs) world communicated… Read more »

Topics discussed: Thomas Pynchon, our Thomas Pynchon petition, the huge success of our Thomas Pynchon petition, liking books, loving books, #amreading, the We Love Books Party, the Constitution Party, arsenic,… Read more »

In a wonderful review of two books on automation in this Sunday’s New York Times Book Review, the writer Barbara Ehrenreich wondered how well robots would be able to handle… Read more »

The FAA has a lot on their plate. Every day they coordinate an impossible worldwide ballet of airborne hurtling rocket machines that are filled with precious cargo, like packages or… Read more »

Authors United asserted a few weeks ago that “books cannot be written more cheaply”. This is because books are written by authors, and though publishers may place restrictions on their authors… Read more »

As a new stage production of Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis reveals, it’s waking up as a robot. The Japanese director Oriza Hirata has cast a robot to play the part… Read more »

Run for the hills! Ah! Robots are taking over everything! Just kidding—we like robots these days. But, it never hurts to remind them that we know what they’re up to.… Read more »

Jacob Harris, senior software architect at The New York Times, has developed an algorithm to find accidental haikus in the paper and post them to a new Tumblr. The timing… Read more »

In an interesting turn of events, Amazon has acquired its very own army of droids. Robert Cyran reports on Slate that Amazon has bought Kiva systems, a manufacturer of bright orange… 1 / Read more »