Fantasy

This is a blog about fantasy. Zac Brettler was a fantasist. That is fundamentally what got him killed. He was 19 years old when he died in November 20...

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Heading for a fall

The photo on the home page shows the headline above a recent story in The Times, which suggested that artificial intelligence (AI) could be applied to...

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Living in an AI world

My last f-factors blog was about salmon sperm, how one of its uses (other than impregnating salmon) has become as an anti-ageing treatment. This blog ...

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Forever…?

In light of this blog’s generic name of f-factors, an idea occurred to me when reading about President Trump’s recent implementation of hi...

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F-Names

Is it the sort of fantasy you would like – to be transported in a self-driving vehicle, or in a car piloted by a humanoid robot? Obviously that ...

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Life & death in the fast lane

You will see – as if you didn’t already know! – from the rudimentary map on the home page that Russia is an enormous country. It str...

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Russia out of our area?