Aeon

Robots came to Europe before the dawn of the mechanical age. To a medieval world, they were indistinguishable from magic

The notion that our 21st-century world is one of accelerating advances is so dominant that it seems churlish to challenge it. Almost every week we read about ‘new hopes’ for cancer sufferers, developments in the lab that might lead to new cures, talk of a new era of space tourism and super-jets that can fly…