Beyond the banality of stochastic parrots and their "hallucinations", AI exists as a socio-political thought-exercise: a what-if. ...

Just as the Chinese concept of the Mandate of Heaven was used to justify both the authority of the emperor and the right of the people to ov...

Some have wondered if Blade Runner 2049 has a " woman problem ", on the grounds that it objectifies the female form (it does, but...

Now that the fever around  Star Wars: The Force Awakens  has abated, I thought it might be fun to look at the series through the prism of co...

Ridley Scott's The Martian  is essentially a corporate video for NASA, which has ambitions to put a human on the Red Planet sometime in...

The is-it-a-feminist-film-or-not? reading of Mad Max: Fury Road is a misdirection. George Miller's series has always been about a man ...

Paul Krugman, who has long cultivated the fertile lands between  Sci-Fi and economics , has been thinking about the implications of " ...

The first time I came across the word Apartheid may have been in Arthur C Clarke's 1953 novel, Childhood's End , which I think I rea...

So who is Doctor Who? The Mark Gatiss-penned An Adventure in Space and Time last week provided us with some clues, ahead of the global brand...