Matthew Hutson

Matthew Hutson is a freelance science writer in New York City who writes for Science, The Atlantic, Scientific American and other publications. Hutson is the author of The 7 Laws of Magical Thinking (Plume, Reprint edition, 2013). He tweets @SilverJacket.

Wed, 04/10/2019 - 12:01
Hi, Robot: Why Robotics and Language Need Each OtherMachines might better understand our commands if they experienced our physical worlds
Wed, 01/06/2021 - 12:02
This story was originally published by Knowable Magazine. When Stefanie Tellex was 10 or 12, around 1990, she learned to program. Her great-aunt had given her instructional books, and she would type code into her father’s desktop computer. One…
Reaching Out to Touch Virtual RealityNew technologies mean we won’t just see and hear digital information. We’ll also feel it.
Wed, 04/10/2019 - 12:01
In Steven Spielberg’s 2018 film, Ready Player One, based on the 2011 book by Ernest Cline, people enter an immersive world of virtual reality called the OASIS. What was most gripping about the futuristic tech in this sci-fi movie was not the VR…