Playbill

November, 2015

We are at the dawn of a new epoch," writes Christopher Steiner in Resistance Is Futile. "Everything we thought we knew about fate and free will may soon hit the document shredder of history." Bold words. But consider that algorithms—the "if this, then that" equa­tions behind all technology—now drive cars, write books and sentence criminals, leav­ing us to wonder whether their reach in our lives has crept too far. Also on the precipice of a new epoch: boxing. Its overseer...