Hoping for a future of 80% unemployment because so many jobs have been handed to robots, a self-described “raging techno-optimist” says we need to think about what that means for... Read more
Humanity today faces incredible threats and opportunities: climate change, nuclear weapons, biotechnology, nanotechnology, and much, much more. But some people argue that these things are al... Read more
Futurist, scientist and Singularity proponent Ray Kurzweil has a more than optimistic view on climate change. In concordance with his Law of Accelerating Returns, Kurzweil sees solar power t... Read more
Renowned innovator and futurist Ray Kurzweil predicts that within 20 years we will have our energy problem licked. It’s solved. We just don’t know it yet. As he told Lauren Fenny of PBS: “... Read more
What do elementary pedagogy and artificial intelligence have in common? Leaders in both fields have abandoned the study of the trees for that of the forest. From preschool through high schoo... Read more
If the race to map the human genome was the last great competition in science, the challenge to reverse-engineer the brain is the most amazing race today. But experts wildly disagree on how... Read more
An ultrafast all-machine phase in which machines dictate price changes The futurist Ray Kurzweil has famously predicted that humanity is approaching a “singularity,” a fateful moment... Read more
Offering humans unlimited prolongation of life to the point of immortality The first Global Future Congress 2045 (GF2045) was held on Feb.17-20 in Moscow, where 56 world leading physicists,... Read more
Regenerating human body parts and defining the boundaries of consciousness Dreams of immortality inspired the fantastical tales of Greek historian Herodotus and Spanish explorer Juan Ponce d... Read more
Will the future be filled with cool technologies and endless opportunities or will our own creations lead to eventual doom? I tend to think the former. Technology has seemingly endless abili... Read more