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title: "Robots, Big Brother, and the death of the sun"
date: "2016-01-21T11:06:13+00:00"
modified: "2016-01-21T11:06:13+00:00"
url: "https://newhumanist.org.uk/2016/01/21/robots-big-brother-and-the-death-of-the-sun/"
post_id: 6484
categories: ["Uncategorised"]
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# Robots, Big Brother, and the death of the sun

1\. [What history tells us about the refugee crisis](/articles/4972/what-history-tells-us-about-the-refugee-crisis)

Europe’s failure to accommodate the refugees on its doorstep is more than a humanitarian crisis, writes Lyndsey Stonebridge – it has disturbing historical roots.

2\. [The house that fame built](/articles/4974/the-house-that-fame-built)

Its pretensions to a “scientific” experiment long since forgotten, Big Brother shows us how trapped we are in celebrity culture, says Mark Fisher.

3\. [Dawn of the replicants](/articles/4980/dawn-of-the-replicants)

Advances in design are creating robots that look – and behave – increasingly like humans. Will Wiles asks: is that such a good thing?

4\. [The death of the sun](/articles/4976/the-death-of-the-sun)

Bad news: we’ve only got a few billion years before the sun dies. Should humanity survive that long, is there any chance of escape? Tosin Thompson explores.

5\. [We are here because you were there: a retrospective of black British art](/articles/4967/we-are-here-because-you-were-there-a-retrospective-of-black-british-art)

Holding an exhibition that celebrates black British art at the Guildhall, with its colonial legacy, is an act akin to resistance, writes Lola Okolosie.

[*Our top long-reads of 2015*](/articles/4978/new-humanists-best-long-reads-of-2015)

[More on our Winter issue – out now](/articles/4959/the-winter-2015-new-humanist-is-out-now)