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Articles from bigthink.com

Browse articles from bigthink.com in the Akihabara archive.

Jun 2018

At current birth rates, the Japanese population will disappear by 2500

The Japanese population is shrinking faster than any other country. The United Nations estimates that it will go from 127 million people today down to 85 million people by the year 2100, while the Ja…

Apr 2018

Japanese AI Writes a Novel, Nearly Wins Literary Award

Authors beware, because an AI-written novel just made it past the first round of screening for a national literary prize in Japan. The novel this program co-authored is titled, The Day…