“Web-bot” technology has moved apocalyptic prophecy into the internet age, predicting that the world will end on 21 December 2012. The desire to see patterns in the market and extrapolate them into ...
Look around you, people of the internet. The bots. They’re everywhere. Most website visitors aren’t humans, but are instead bots—or, programs built to do automated tasks. They are the worker bees of ...
is the editor of the Platformer newsletter and cohost of the Hard Fork podcast. The first bot I ever befriended went by the name of GooglyMinotaur. The Minotaur appeared in 2001 to promote Amnesiac, ...