In the most talked-about film from the final year of the 20th century, “The Matrix[1],” a computer hacker named Neo finds that the world he lives and works in isn’t real. It’s a virtual reality, created by artificial intelligence.
At the time, the idea seemed like science fiction. In the years since, however, that concept has...
Envision a time when hundreds of spacecraft are exploring the solar system and beyond. That’s the future that NASA’s ESCAPADE[1], or escape and plasma acceleration and dynamics explorers, mission will help unleash: one where small, low-cost spacecraft enable researchers to learn rapidly, iterate, and advance technology and science.
The ESCAPADE...
Technological innovations can seem relentless. In computing, some have proclaimed that “a year in machine learning[1] is a century in any other field.” But how do you know whether those advancements are hype or reality?
Failures quickly multiply when there’s a deluge of new technology, especially when these developments haven’t been...
“Time flies,” “time waits for no one,” “as time goes on”: The way we speak about time tends to strongly imply that the passage of time is some sort of real process that happens out there in the world. We inhabit the present moment and move through time, even as events come and go, fading into the past.
But go ahead and...