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Netflix has changed where we watch -- that's obvious. But has it also changed what we watch, and how?

Could computers make the legal system more fair? Or is it inherently unjust to put a person’s life in the hands of an algorithm?

What the growing influencer industry can teach us about the future of life online.

A look at two communities living under the microscope.

How did the Web become one big media channel for the far right, and how can we make the Internet safe from extremism?

We wade into the debate over pornography and determine what, if anything, can be said about its effect on our relationships.

The 200 year history of privacy in America, and what the new age of “surveillance capitalism” means for all of us.

Surveillance capitalism, porn wars, totalitarian AI in Brooklyn and Beijing, and other real-life dystopias

In a special bonus episode, computer scientist and data journalist Meredith Broussard explains how “technochauvinism” derailed the dream of the digital revolution.

Surely, AI technology has nothing that even closely resembles human imagination. Or does it?

We need more than moral arguments against meat. We need a technological revolution in better, cleaner food.

Some scientists see aging as a disease that can be cured—but what would immortality mean for humanity?

With autonomous technology, everything about our relationship to cars is about to change. Then what?

Scientists are thinking seriously about an idea that might sound like something from a sci-fi dystopia.

Crazy/Genius is back with a new season featuring five ideas to save the world.

Scientists and writers discuss whether colonizing Mars is the most important mission in the history of the human race, or an absurd daydream.

If the universe is so large and so old, why haven't we found life on other planets?

How the Internet broke the news business—and how journalism might survive in a post-advertising world.

Two sociologists debate the merits of online dating and discuss their research on the history of romance in America.

We ask psychologists and authors if smartphone and social media usage has triggered a national health crisis — and what we can do to free ourselves from the allure of modern technology.