The Latest Breaking News from Anders Sandberg

It is a cliche that not knowing history makes one repeat it. As many people have also pointed out, the only thing we learn from history is that we rarely learn anything from history. People engage in land wars in Asia over and over. They repeat the same dating mistakes,…

You learn from your mistakes. At least, most of us have been told so. But science shows that we often fail to learn from past errors. Instead, we are likely to keep repeating the same mistakes.

Anders Sandberg, from the Future of Humanity Institute at the University of Oxford, has predicted what the world will look like for the human race when it hits 1m-years-old

Findings could make more organ transplants possible and save more lives each year, scientists say