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Going dark: the insecure past and future of cyberwar

The Long + Short talks to Fred Kaplan, author of a new book on the disturbing origins of digital conflict

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Elevated, by Tim Maughan

Our new series of short fiction explores the future of collective intelligence

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How new life emerges from the death of creative companies

Comment: The demise of a respected British games developer is a loss, but it could also lead to an outpouring of new startups and creativity

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Dream states

500 years of Utopia: By focusing on utopias as naive blueprints for 'perfect' societies, we overlook the success of utopias as places of experimentation

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What works?

Comment: Using evidence to inform policy is obviously correct. But it may have been oversold in terms of what it can realistically deliver, says Dan Davies

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Amani al-Khatahtbeh is talking back for young Muslim women

The founder of the MuslimGirl website on challenging negative myths about Islam and commanding the web

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Who will succeed in the new machine age?

Alec Ross discusses his new book, the emerging industries of the future and the relative merits of Donald Trump versus a robot

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Imagining dystopian and delightful new culinary directions

First look: an exhibition in Dublin brings together science and art to explore the future of food and agriculture

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Dance moves: Blues explosions, 1914-17

How America got the blues. The latest in a series examining 'periods of innovation' spurring the evolution of music to dance to

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Mind the font: celebrating the man who gave London its letters

A new exhibition looks at the work of Edward Johnston and his enduring visual identity for the London transport system