At any given point in time certain acts or beliefs are considered so outside the bounds of acceptable custom or behaviour that society moves to prohibit them.

This week Future Tense takes you to the 2015 Remix Summit in Sydney for a panel discussion entitled...

We humans are a particularly wasteful lot.

What do dingoes, ‘green roofs’ and a small steam-driven desalinator have in common?

That so many pollsters, politicians and political pundits got the results of the recent UK election so incredibly wrong tells us much about the ongoing perils of prediction.

This isn’t just the information age, it’s the age of prediction.

China is already a significant economic and political force, but it also wants to be a cultural leader.

They infuriate some and delight others, but whether you like them or not, Emoji are certainly getting harder to ignore.

A Federal District Court in Washington has just convicted four former US mercenaries for the 2007 killing of innocent civilians in Baghdad’s Nisour Square.

Mercenaries, private military contractors, commercial combatants – what you call them depends on your ethical viewpoint (and whether or not you’ve just hired some to supplement your own military forces).