AI is beginning to blur the line between code and biology, prompting concerns about the long-term risk of new viruses and other biological agents.

Before Linotype revolutionised typesetting in the 1880s, compositors set texts by hand — and they set them fast. Alex Wright rediscovers the thrilling world of typesetting races, which drew crowds in the thousands, offered huge cash prizes, and helped women “Swifts” fight for workplace equity.

What a century-old vision of the global network tells us about “ghost” labor and the risks of intellectual totalitarianism in the age of AI