Bill Wasik

Silicon Valley is spreading a peculiarly American vision of the future. How will the rest of the world respond?

Tracing the strange connections of a global economy.

As technology has made extraordinary leaps, autonomous vehicles may cease to be science fiction. The Times Magazine’s Tech & Design issue ponders: What happens then?

In trying to foresee the future of an internet that’s already changing, the only certainty is complexity.

Every weekday, we recommend one piece of exceptional writing from across the newsroom. You never know what you’ll find. And that’s the point.

Animal-welfare science tries to get inside the minds of a huge range of species — in order to help improve their lives.

The technology’s ability to read and summarize text is already making it a useful tool for scholarship. How will it change the stories we tell about the past?