The Invention of the 25th Hour
What We Do With Time We Didn’t Earn the Old-Fashioned Way AI, robotics and autonomy won’t literally add another hour to the day, but they may create the psychological equivalent by removing routine work. The enormous question becomes what humans do when...
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,...
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...
Twelve Inventions That Prove the Future Has a Sense of Humor — And Means Business
By Futurist Thomas Frey Every few years, a cluster of technologies arrives that makes you stop and ask whether the people building them are solving real problems or simply demonstrating that the problems can be solved. The twelve innovations I want to walk through...