But for most of the world, Leo’s plea was forgotten in the capitalist-versus-communist Cold War. 21st-century tech Today, we inhabit yet another Gilded Age.

In the early 1950s, a group of researchers at the Institute for Advanced Study embarked on a high-tech project. At the behest of John von Neumann and Herman Goldstine, the physicist Hedvig Selberg ...

10-09-2021 TECH The roots of digital racism date back to 19th-century railroads Addressing the inequality baked into today’s algorithms requires excavation of technology’s layered history.

Yet the prospect of continuing dominance in this 21st-century technology hinges on harnessing a 19th-century one: electricity. That’s where America has a long way to go.