At the controls of driverless cars, on the end of the telephone when you call your bank or favourite retailer: we all know the robots are coming, and in many cases are already here. Back in 2013, economists at Oxford University’s Martin School estimated that in the next 20 years, more than half of all jobs would be substituted by intelligent technology. Like the prospect of robot-assisted living o
It may seem incongruous that the 20th century’s most snarlingly anti-establishment musical phenomenon is being honoured by such an august institution, but the British Library has amassed a huge archive of audio, video, print material and other artefacts associated with punk. “We’ve always collected the counterculture as well as the culture,” says Linehan. For this show it will also draw from exter
Sprinkling a sugary coating of teen-idol pop on to the remorseless clamour of death metal sounds like a musical fusion best confined to the imagination of a record industry executive. But Babymetal, a trio of Japanese teenage girls, have paired rah-rah skirts and hair ribbons with infernal metallic riffs to produce what could be the most unlikely music phenomenon of the year. The band's eponymous
They do things differently in Japan. So much so, in fact, that despite my devotion to heavy metal and its attendant culture and values, the emergence and apparent huge popularity - their self-titled debut currently sits at No 4 on the list of iTunes rock albums in the US and their videos soar into the million views on YouTube – of the baffling band Babymetal strikes me as far less surprising (not
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