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Anxiety about automation dates back hundreds of years.
In the age of AI we are once again hearing about Luddites, the 19th-century textile workers who sought to protect their livelihoods in early industrial England.
Influencer culture is not a thing of the past, and yet the movers and shakers of post-revolutionary France are proof that writing lifestyle columns and trending is a centuries-old pursuit.
Leo XIV released his first encyclical on the 135th anniversary of Rerum Novarum, the 1891 papal document on the upheavals of the Industrial Revolution.
The pope has warned that AI is never truly neutral: it reflects the society that made it. He has called for ethical oversight – and protecting workers.
One of North America’s richest ecosystems, sustained and shaped by Native peoples before European contact, nearly disappeared. A recovery is underway.
In each era of globalisation since the mid-17th century, a single country has sought to be the clear world leader – shaping the rules of the global economy for all.
There’s a reason you sometimes wake up in the middle of the night.
Italian and Russian futurists of the early 20th century imagined that technology would remake humanity. Today’s techno-utopians are not so different.
During the Industrial Revolution, craftsmanship retreated to the margins. As AI becomes widely adopted, will the same happen to original thinking?
From Spartan feasts to Sunday brunches, the way we eat has transformed since our hunter-gatherer ancestors first shared meals around the hearth.
Working from home has become a contentious election issue, particularly for the Coalition which has swung from opposing to embracing it.
New research shows that when the whaling industry in the US produced more products, the proportion of slaves also declined in the 1700s and 1800s.
Wealthier South Africans, particularly those in urban areas, are more optimistic about emerging technologies than those in low-income and rural areas.
In 1866, journalist Andrew Halliday led his readers on a guided tour of one of London’s foremost card manufacturers – to reveal how emotions were being ‘manufactured.’
The shifts associated with being in your 40s and 50s – gray hairs, career doldrums, a longing for something more – seem as inevitable as aging itself. It wasn’t always this way.
Amitav Ghosh has used his storytelling prowess to outline the historical and political roots of climate change within systems of power and oppression.
Malthus thought that overpopulation was unsustainable and risked societal collapse. One of humanity’s greatest achievements was proving him wrong.
In an era of transformation, manufacturing still matters.
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