A surveillance state is one of the extreme futures that may face us
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The Coming Wave
Mustafa Suleyman (with Michael Bhaskar) (Bodley Head)
The Handover
David Runciman (Profile Books)
The Age of Prediction
Igor Tulchinsky and Christopher E. Mason (MIT Press)
Deterrence Under Uncertainty
Edward Geist (Oxford University Press)
A SORCERER’S apprentice decides to use magic to help clean his master’s castle. The broom he enchants works well, dousing the floors with pails full of water. When the work is finished, the apprentice tries to stop the broom. He can’t, so he tries to smash it. The …
