Tom Chivers

Where will our inventions lead?

26 September 2020 9:00 am

When reviewers say that some new book reminds them of some famous old book, it often ends up as a…

The shape of things to come – from artificial wombs to suicide coffins

18 July 2020 9:00 am

It wasn’t until half way through Jenny Kleeman’s Sex Robots and Vegan Meat that I was able to put my…

How close is humanity to destroying itself?

7 March 2020 9:00 am

Humanity has come startlingly close to destroying itself in the 75 or so years in which it has had the…

How to message a Martian

9 November 2019 9:00 am

Apparently the first audio message broadcast into space with the ostensible purpose of communicating with aliens was the sound of…