Future

SimCity still

The newest version of the SimCity video game franchise offers players two divergent paths

What kind of urban future can you imagine? The newest version of the video game SimCity lets you decide for yourselfWhat kind of urban future can you imagine? The newest version of the video game SimCity lets you decide for yourself

Soon, computers will become more intelligent than us. Then what?

Environment
Bahle

When graduating from high school, even top students need guidance

Development & Education

Technology will enable us to live forever says futurist

Environment

Regulating nanotechnology

Environment
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The Future of the Brain

What our brains hold and what they do is something we’ve been exploring, but what will they do in the future? If Ray Kurzweil has his way, our brains will be alive to see it.   Ray Kurzweil  is a technologist and futurist who is on a mission to make us all immortal. According to Kurzweil, technology […]

The Future of Human Health

Innovator Ray Kurzweil offers his insight on radical life extension- and radical life expansion- as our biological capabilities become enhanced by machines in the future.

The Future of Artificial Intelligence

Innovator Ray Kurzweil offers his insight on the future of artificial intelligence– and let’s us play with some of his inventions.

Forecasting 2006

Advances in energy and a rejuvenated environmental movement are some of the items on Gerald Celente’s list for this year’s hot trends.

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What Compels Us to Predict an Unknowable Future?

Arts, Culture & Media

Anticipating the future is a classic (and possibly uniquely) human pastime. For as long as humans have kept records of the past, we have also tried to predict our future…and in so doing, control our destiny. Why do we cling to these predictions? The end of the world, the end of humanity, even our future […]

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