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...
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 Asimov Manifesto
An ultra-modern humanoid robot stood motionless beneath the cold glow of the city skyline, its polished titanium frame reflecting streams of neon light. With unsettling precision, it raised a compact energy weapon toward an unseen target, not with anger or emotion,...
The Neutral Sky: Why Space May Be the Only Fair Ground for AI in the Developing World
By Futurist Thomas Frey and Futurist Teresa Grobecker The geopolitics of AI infrastructure has left smaller nations with no seat at the table. A constellation of orbital edge computers may be the first genuinely neutral ground they have ever had. Every conversation...