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Many of the ‘golden ages’ in history were actually gilded ages. And yet, there are people and leaders who are more obsessed with the ‘halcyon’ past than the present. To them, the present is the ‘always postponed future.’

Like so many collections, it began with a single purchase made on a whim — in this case, the typewriter used by a Pulitzer-winning sportswriter.

Long before Hollywood made killer robots seem all too plausible, the British author worried that technology would undermine humanity by making life too easy.

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By the early 2000s, British actor, DJ, producer, and songwriter Idris Elba already began slipping into music.

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Musk’s reasoning was that reliance on A.I. to perform seemingly simple tasks can, over time, create an environment in which humans forget how to operate the machines that enabled A.I. in the first place. 

Musk recommends a Forster story "The Machine Stops" - a harrowing tale of technological terror with humans forced to live underground after the surface of the earth has become uninhabitable.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk is warning that even a "benign dependency" on AI can ultimately be dangerous to civilization as humans forget how to operate complex machines.

Meet modern-day Vashtis named for the defiant Purim queen: an Olympian, a singer, two authors and the founder of the Colored Girls Museum.