Each year Edge, the online “Reality Club”, asks a number of thinkers a question and they publish the short essay answers. This year the question was “What do you consider the most interesting recent scientific news? What makes it important?” The responses are here:

http://edge.org/contributors/what-do-you-consider-the-most-interesting-recent-scientific-news-what-makes-it

My own essay on “Deep Learning, Semantics, And Society” is here:

http://edge.org/response-detail/26689