Kelli María Korducki is a Brooklyn-based journalist, writer and editor who covers business, technology, work and culture.
'Bucket shops' blurred the line between gambling and forecasting, laying the groundwork for today’s prediction markets.
This 1960s chatbot was a precursor to AI. Its maker grew to fear it.
In 1983, Soviet officer Stanislav Petrov trusted his intuition and called a warning of an incoming missile a false alarm.
Antitrust rulings dismantled Hollywood’s monopolies in the 1950s.