The Great Unbundling of the City
What Happens When a Place Stops Being Necessary By Futurist Thomas Frey Cities exist partly because people historically needed to cluster around jobs, stores, schools, hospitals, entertainment, and transportation. If those functions become mobile, autonomous, virtual,...
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 Relevance Gap Manifesto
There was a time when relevance lasted a lifetime. That time is over. For the first time in history, intelligence is no longer scarce. It is abundant. On demand. Continuously improving. Which means everything built on the assumption that intelligence was rare — every...
The Korczak Principle: A New Framework for Purpose in a World That Can Do Everything
The Unlost Self — Column 1 By Futurist Thomas Frey In 1947, a Polish-American sculptor named Korczak Ziolkowski drove to the Black Hills of South Dakota with $174 in his pocket and a promise he had no business making. A Lakota elder named Chief Henry Standing Bear had...