It will come no surprise to anyone that technology advancement is accelerating as the years go by. Since the year 2000AD, we’ve seen the Internet expand beyond recognition, digital cameras and smartphones have become everyday gadgets, iPods and Kindles have transformed the music and publishing industries, tablets are replacing PCs and 3D HDTVs have entered [...]

The question of whether Earth is a virtual world may soon become more important as technology is developed to create an advanced simulated reality. In the blockbuster 1999 Keanu Reeves movie, The Matrix, mankind is forced by intelligent machines in the future into living in a virtual world that simulates the Earth of today. This simulated [...]

At some point this century, some people believe the pace of technological progression in the areas of genetics, nanotechnology and artificial intelligence will become so fast that society, and even the human race itself, will undergo rapid evolution. Miracles like immortality, colonisation of the stars and an end to work will result from this and [...]