A quiet transformation is unfolding in the way scientists design the materials that power modern technology. From faster ...

If you could invent something to fulfil an economist’s dream, it would look an awful lot like a prediction market. A world where every uncertain future can be priced, hedged and insured against?

Three books unpack our infatuation with prediction, and what we lose when we outsource this task to machines. To be human is, fundamentally, to be a forecaster. Occasionally a pretty good one. Trying ...