2016 marks the 60-year anniversary of the phrase 'Artificial Intelligence'. In this book, the author charts the weird and wonderful journey of one of mankind's greatest projects, the creation of Thinking Machines. It is a story of how and what it means to be human in the face of accelerating machine intelligence.

The story behind the rise of the world's largest technology company.
On May 26, 2010 Apple Inc. passed Microsoft in valuation as the world's largest technology company. Its consumer electronic products -- ranging from computers to mobile phones to portable media devices, not to mention its iTunes, iBook and App Store -- have influenced nearly every facet of our lives, and it shows no sign of slowing down. But how did Apple -- a company set up in the back room of a house by two friends, and one that always marketed itself as the underdog -- become the marketplace leader (and the world's...

What if everything in life could be reduced to a simple formula? What if numbers were able to tell us which partners we were best matched with - not just in terms of attractiveness, but for a long-term committed marriage? Or if they could say which films would be the biggest hits at the box office, and what changes could be made to those films to make them even more successful? Or even who out of us is likely to commit certain crimes, and when? This may sound like the world of science-fiction, but in fact it is just the tip of the iceberg in a world that is increasingly ruled by complex...