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  The Invisible Mortgage: Your Share of the National Debt If you wake up tomorrow feeling a vague sense of unease, it might not be the state...

  The Golden Cage: Why Oscar’s £175 Million Still Isn't Enough Oscar, the former Chelsea star, recently revealed on a podcast that for h...

  The Silicon Scrivener: Why We're Eagerly Outsourcing Our Legacies to Algorithms It was only a matter of time. For centuries, the legal...

  The Digital Immortals: Beyond the Lobster and the Sponge We obsess over the biology of longevity. We stare at the lobster, marveling at it...

  The Digital Container: Are We Building the Cranes That Will Replace Us? In the 1960s, the London dockers looked at the first standardized ...

  The Inverted Tombstone: Why We Keep Calling the Pyramid a Pyramid We are deeply, almost pathologically, attached to the word "pyramid...

  The Spreadsheet Cradle: Why You Can’t Tax Your Way to a Legacy There is a peculiarly modern delusion that if we simply adjust the tax code...

  The Three Faces of Britain's End If history is a slow-motion car crash, the UK is currently adjusting its mirrors to look at the wreck...

  The Architect of the Future: Escaping the Primate Trap The human animal is a master of the "immediate." For millions of years, o...

  The Death of the Envelope: Why Your Mailman is Going Extinct The Danish postal service recently dropped a bombshell that is less of a ...

  Humans 2.0: Ten Questions About Technology and the Future (41–50) Technology keeps reshaping what it means to be human. But as machines gr...

  The Third Dimension of Time: The Axis of Fate Dr. Lin Wei, a theoretical physicist who had dedicated years to the field of quantum physics...

 Bean There, Done That: My President's a Bot? Well, isn't this something? Another day, another headline that makes you scratch your ...