If, like me, you suffer from motion sickness, then you know just how quickly a trip down Britain's winding back roads can turn into a nausea-inducing nightmare. But if you struggle to hold on to your lunch as the car starts to lurch, there may soon be a solution. ClearMotion, a Boston-based startup, claims that its latest generation of cutting-edge suspension can'eliminate motion sickness' for good. So, with anti-nausea tablets in hand, MailOnline's reporter, Wiliam Hunter, took a trip to their Warwickshire testing facility to try it for himself. With compact motors tucked away above each wheel and a sophisticated onboard computer, the system can push and pull the wheels to cancel out bumps in the road.

Today it is trivially easy to play games on a computer, games console or phone with your friends over the internet. But before the wide availability of high-speed internet, things were more complicated. In the 1990s and early 2000s, 3D graphics in video games were becoming more and more complex, but the low network speeds of the period meant that these games, unlike slower-paced and less graphically intensive strategy games, were nearly unplayable over an internet connection. In this moment, in which communications technology was being outpaced by graphical power, the Lan (local area network) party was born. The term itself conjures up strong sensory memories for those who were there – sweaty bodies packed into a basement or convention hall, a dozen hefty computer monitors being manoeuvred into position. For those on the outside, these were scenes of incomprehension or ridicule.

You've probably got the whole ride-sharing thing figured out. Call a taxi or Uber, climb into the back seat, chat with the driver a bit, and be on your way. If anything goes wrong, the driver can alert you to what's up. They might already be talking your ear off anyway. All that helpful interaction goes out the automatic window if the driver behind the wheel is a robot.

These are the very measures that have long differentiated scientific activities from non-science. Moreover, scientists have been trained to differentiate between correlation and causation, that one must find a cause-effect relationship to understand and accept a correlation. But with the advent of humungous data, machine learning and black-box models, we are shifting to mere correlations. The shift in approach was predicted by Chris Anderson more than a decade ago, asserting that at the petabyte scale, information is about dimensionally agnostic statistics that requires us to forego the visualisation of data. For science that has always been about causation, the new change pushes it to the considerations of correlations.

By the time he stepped onto a bus in downtown Toronto for the first leg of a trip to Lake Tahoe in December 2012, Geoff Hinton hadn't taken a seat for seven years. "I last sat down in 2005," he often said, "and it was a mistake." He first injured his back as a teenager, while lifting a space heater for his mother. As he reached his late fifties, he couldn't sit down without risking a slipped disk, and if it slipped the pain could put him in bed for weeks. So he stopped sitting down.

This story is part of Future Tense Fiction, a monthly series of short stories from Future Tense and Arizona State University's Center for Science and the Imagination about how technology and science will change our lives. A handsome boy, 17 and soft-spoken, told Jasmine about an Easter egg. "Try it," he urged, sincerity in his voice and in his eyes as he gazed at her across the tall front desk. She smiled all day at the hotel's guests, chatting with them when time permitted, listening to their stories. Her role came easily: bright-eyed island girl, young and pretty, a white flower tucked behind her ear. "Ah, your parents are here," she said as the couple emerged from the elevator alcove into the expansive lobby, its glittering perfection empty now of other guests in the lull of early afternoon. The boy waved at them, then turned again to Jasmine. "Give it a try," he exhorted her in a conspiratorial whisper. She didn't want to disappoint those eyes. So she played along, teasing, "I might." It was just a little game, after all. "And if it works for you, then tell someone else, OK? Keep it going." "And how will I know if it works?" He answered with a blissful smile. His parents joined him at the desk. Jasmine wished them all a safe trip home. Her shift ended at 4. Still wearing her uniform--a blue, body-hugging aloha-print dress--she left alone through the employee entrance, sighing at the shock of transition from air-conditioned comfort to the withering heat and humidity of a late-summer afternoon. Out of sight but audible, surf rumbled against the artificial reef. Closer, mynah birds chattered amid the heavy bloom of a rainbow shower tree. After a few minutes, an electric cart rolled up, nearly full with resort employees on their way home.

Tesla Inc. Chief Executive Elon Musk for years has been championing his vehicles' driver-assistance system called Autopilot and forecasting that self-driving cars are an emerging reality. Some would-be social media stars and Tesla owners can't seem to wait. Param Sharma, 25, has posted multiple videos to Instagram in which he appears to operate a Tesla while in the back seat with nobody at the wheel. Police in California arrested Mr. Sharma on May 10 for alleged reckless driving after an officer said he saw him operating a Tesla Model 3 from the back seat on a Bay Area highway. Similar videos abound on social media, even though Tesla's technology is intended only as a way to assist drivers, who are instructed to keep their hands on the wheel.

Federal safety regulators are sending a team to California to investigate a fatal freeway crash involving a Tesla, just after authorities near Oakland arrested a man in another Tesla rolling down a freeway with no one behind the steering wheel. Experts say both cases raise pressure on the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to take action on Tesla's partially automated driving system called Autopilot, which has been involved in multiple crashes that have resulted in at least three U.S. deaths. The probe of the May 5 crash in Fontana, California, east of Los Angeles, is the 29th case involving a Tesla that the agency has responded to. "The details of whether the Tesla was in autonomous mode are still under investigation," Officer Stephen Rawls, a spokesperson for the California Highway Patrol, said in an email Wednesday. The Tesla driver, a 35-year-old man whose name has not been released, was killed and another man was seriously injured when the electric car struck an overturned semi on a freeway.

A man who was spotted riding in the backseat of a Tesla Model 3 with its partially automated driving feature apparently engaged was arrested on Monday after fellow motorists alerted the police. The California Highway Patrol reported that 25-year-old Param Sharma was taken into custody when an officer at the Bay Bridge toll plaza in Oakland saw the car pass by without anyone in the driver's seat. According to the report, the officer witnessed Sharma get into the driver's seat and bring the vehicle to a stop. The vehicle was towed and Sharma was taken into custody and charged with reckless driving and disobeying an officer. The CHP said Sharma had previously been cited on April 27 for similar behavior and that video of someone resembling him riding in the back of a Model 3 with no one visible in the driver's seat had been posted to social media.

By the time he stepped onto the bus in downtown Toronto, bound for Lake Tahoe, Geoff Hinton hadn't sat down for seven years. "I last sat down in 2005," he often said, "and it was a mistake." He first injured his back as a teenager, while lifting a space heater for his mother. As he reached his late fifties, he couldn't sit down without risking a slipped disk, and if it slipped, the pain could put him in bed for weeks. So he stopped sitting down.