The First Generation Raised by AI
What Happens When a Child’s Best Friend Never Gets Tired By Futurist Thomas Frey Children growing up today may develop lifelong relationships with AI tutors, companions, coaches, and advisors that know them better than almost anyone else. The profound question...
The First Human Who Will Live to 150 May Already Be 70
Longevity science isn’t just extending life anymore. It’s starting to treat age itself as a condition. By Futurist Thomas Frey Here’s a sentence worth sitting with for a moment: the person who becomes the first human to reach 150 years old might...
The AI Home of the Future
Why the house that thinks for itself is arriving faster than most people realize By Futurist Thomas Frey For a century, “smart home” meant a house full of gadgets that could be controlled remotely — a thermostat you could adjust from your phone, a light...
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....