Robert Herritt

Robert Herritt is a writer in New York City.

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Your Mind’s Future

Mind reading machines! Telekinesis! In Michio Kaku’s new book our minds will be doing all kinds of cool things with gadgets very, very soon, but somehow this scientist misses the big questions about what we really know about consciousness and the mind.

Robert Herritt

Breaking

What is the News?

How do you define what appears on your TV screen and in your newspaper? Pop philosopher Alain de Botton tells us what he thinks the news should be—and what it should do.

Robert Herritt

Decisions

Kill the Fat Man?

It’s one of philosophy’s thorniest questions—the trolley problem—and a new book explores its interesting history, the many answers to it, and what it reveals about our failure to talk about moral questions in public today.

Robert Herritt

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Genius Bar

Welcome to the Future

In the future, genius machines will guide our lives, and wages for those not in the top 10 percent will stagnate—or so predicts Tyler Cowen in his new book.

Robert Herritt