As William Gibson said, the future is already here. It's just not evenly distributed. We already possess technologies that could create a world that's more sustainable, prosperous and equitable than the world as it is today. What's holding us back is that those technologies
You say 'the robots will take our jobs' like it's a bad thing.
It's bad enough what Musk does on Earth. I don't want him controlling my oxygen supply.
A majority of Americans fear that political violence is imminent. But it may not take quite the form we imagine.
Why not get ahead of the curve?
It's nice to imagine building a big, shiny future. But there's some un-sexy work to do first.
After a while, it was hard to remember why we'd drawn the lines to begin with.
Our future is increasingly made worse by a refusal to cooperate.
The power to control ever-greater amounts of energy is a hallmark of civilization’s progress, and humanity is poised to take the next big step.
I'm sure you have questions.
The Future Library Project is collecting books that won’t be published in our lifetime.
AI futurists assume that faster thinking automatically produces greater intelligence, leading to a Singularity of transcendent machine minds. But speed is the less important half of intelligence.