Technological progress can reduce the energy required to achieve the same ends, reducing the use of fossil fuels and the greenhouse gases associated with burning fossil fuels. But technological ...

For two centuries, technology has transformed how we live and work, from the steam engine to the internet. It is tempting to assume that progress will always continue. Yet history offers a sobering ...

In a 1938 article, MIT’s president argued that technical progress didn’t mean fewer jobs. He’s still right. MIT Technology Review is celebrating our 125th anniversary with an online series that draws ...

One of the best-selling novels of the 19th century was a work of what we’d now call speculative fiction: Edward Bellamy’s “Looking Backward: 2000-1887.” Bellamy was one of the first prominent figures ...

In early 2021, long before ChatGPT became a household name, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman self-published a manifesto of sorts, titled “Moore’s Law for Everything.” The original Moore’s Law, formulated in 1965 ...

Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle over Technology and Prosperity, by Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson (PublicAffairs, 560 pp., $32) Is progress good? Despite the subjective nature of the ...

Despite surges in fields like AI, medicine and nuclear energy, major advances in science and technology are slowing and are fewer and farther between than decades ago, according to a study published ...

Does technology advance higher education? This question seems ridiculous to those of us who work in educational technology and online learning. Of course, technology pushes higher education forward.