Discussions and speculation about the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on human labor and technological innovation have become commonplace.

The human capacity for invention and discovery is a remarkable phenomenon that has shaped the course of history. It is as if humans are driven by an innate desire to improve their lives and the world ...

Readers of this space are by now intimately familiar with the Device for the Autonomous Bootstrapping of Unified Sentience (DABUS), the machine created by computer scientist and prolific inventor ...

Human survival over the past two centuries is not the story of a single miracle but of stacked inventions that together pushed down mortality: clean water and sewage systems, chemical fertilisers that ...

Innovation is a key aspect that drives militaries forward around the globe. The military ...

Summer Associate Bridget Moore also contributed to this article. As companies—and more recently, courts—have struggled to address the role of artificial intelligence (AI) in innovation, legislators ...

Along with some 80 items in ‘Measuring Difference’ is a reminder that measurement, in all its forms, is a human invention CAMBRIDGE — Measurement is at the heart of what science does, and difference ...

The magazine you are holding is, in many ways, a disruptive technology. From the introduction of the printing press to the launch of the internet, human inventions have always altered how humans live, ...

The human capacity for invention is unparalleled. We have developed technologies that have allowed us to survive and thrive far beyond the ecological niches that constrained our ancestors. While our ...