The Venture Studio Data Center: Where AI Infrastructure Meets the Job Engine of the Future
By Futurist Thomas Frey and Futurist Teresa Grobecker Something important happened recently that the technology industry would be wise not to dismiss. Eric Schmidt, one of the most credentialed voices in the history of modern technology, stood before an audience and...
The Token Revolution: How the Global South Becomes the Global Brain
By Futurist Thomas Frey and Futurist Teresa Grobecker For two centuries, the developing world fed the machine with its land, its labor, and its people. The next economy runs on something different — and this time, the feedback loop runs in reverse. Here is a...
The Battery Made of Rust That Could Change Everything
The simplest chemistry may win: iron, water, air. Rust becomes energy storage— scaling fast enough to reshape the grid and power the next era By Futurist Thomas Frey The most important battery innovation of the decade isn’t made of lithium, cobalt, or any of the...
The Airship That Watches Everything — and Never Has to Land
A solar airship at 52,000 feet, flying for days without fuel- quietly redefining persistent observation and reshaping how we watch the world. By Futurist Thomas Frey Somewhere above the coast of Brazil last week, a 270-foot solar-powered airship was floating in the...