If robots ever conquer the world, in other words, we’re in for a dystopian future of horrible puns. What Makes Things Funny? One problem is that for a computer to truly be humorous, most people ...

Things aren't what they once were, the saying goes. And perhaps they never will be.

In a new book, MIT literature professor Benjamin Mangrum explores how we deal with our doubts and fears about computing ...

This article was originally published with the title “ The Joke's on Your Computer: The Latest Humor Coded into Software ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 305 No. 5 (November 2011) doi:10 ...

COMPUTER-GENERATED VOICE #4: (As Martin Haste) I don't call these nuggets of wit jokes any more than you'd call the best lines of Joyce and Beckett or the books of Ruth or James jokes.

And do you know any better computer-related jokes? Let us know on the comments thread below. I just want to set some ground rules though. First, try to keep the jokes clean and not too non-PC.

Computer humor. io9 That’s what she said: software that tells dirty jokes Double entendres have been making us laugh since the days of Chaucer and Shakespeare, but up until now ...

In Rolling Stone’s recent cover story on the 20th anniversary of Radiohead’s OK Computer, singer Thom Yorke says that if he could go back to 1997 he’d tell his younger self to “lighten the ...