The Space Settlement Museum
Why the next great space museum won’t look backward at rockets — it’ll look forward at neighborhoods By Futurist Thomas Frey Walk into almost any space museum today and you’ll find the same story told in slightly different rooms: a rocket standing on...
The Future Where Objects Have Opinions
Last Tuesday morning, I stood in my kitchen and asked my toaster what it thought of my breakfast choices. “Bagels again?” it said, in the mildly judgmental tone toasters will apparently develop by 2040. “You had a bagel yesterday. And the day before....
Super Democracy 3: The Living Government
What comes after fixing the system — when the system starts fixing itself By Futurist Thomas Frey I’ve been thinking about democracy the way an engineer thinks about a bridge. Not whether bridges are good or bad, but whether this particular bridge was designed...
Should the US Government Own a Piece of the AI Giants?
From Trump to Bernie Sanders, Washington is suddenly debating the same radical idea — for very different reasons The Most Unlikely Political Agreement in Washington When Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders agree on something, you should stop and pay attention. Right now,...