From implantable devices like pacemakers and brain interfaces to smart wearables, humans are fast becoming more cybernetic than we might realize. Implanted devices tend to have higher fidelity and ...

A reader who would like to remain anonymous asks: As a disabled person whose body is basically falling apart (details too gross to go into), I’ve been wondering for a long time when I can get my ...

When Bayer patented aspirin in 1897 it revolutionized medicine, bringing cheap, reliable pain relief to the mass market. In the 21st century, companies like Medtronic and Advanced Bionics are ...

Sometimes an era is graced with a gift — a book that is not merely deficient in the usual ways, not merely insipid or uninspired, but epochal in its ineptitude. Amir Husain’s “The Cybernetic Society: ...

Imagine someone falling asleep a century ago and waking up in the present day. Things would certainly look different; our skyscrapers are taller, our cars and airplanes bigger and faster. But our time ...

An artist’s rendering shows part of Neom, a megacity planned in Saudi Arabia. Amir Husain calls Neom “the most ambitious attempt yet to bring the principles of cybernetic urbanism to life at a massive ...