It's not really the top third, though. It's anyone below the top 1% and above the bottom 45%. Someone in a £4m detached house in Richmond who goes on two skiing holidays a year and employs … (View Post)

But the world is human shaped. There is no more useful shape for doing tasks that humans do than the shape of a human. Why have 20 specialist robots cluttering the place up when you can have one gene… (View Post)

Ancoats is industrial noom. The museum of science and industry is pleasant, but not particularly noomy. For science noom, we have Joddrell Bank radio telescope. It is magnificent. You can see it from… (View Post)

I think you must be right - she's just not very good at cooking. Because a bad roast dinner is a sad thing indeed. And that picture is depressing. I used to occasionally visit a family who alway… (View Post)

No, but I would if I had to talk to it. Simply depressing the lever is fine. Pressing a few buttons is fine. But anything involving voice activation starts to feel a little like I am a colonial plana… (View Post)