A ‘Gates tax’ on robots? ‘Email From the Future’ imagines a world without ultra-rich tech titans Visions of Utopia go back to the year 1516, when Thomas More literally wrote the book on the subject —… Read More
Virtual reality check: Futurists dissect Amazon’s new ‘Upload’ TV series, and its digital afterlife “Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy?” I can’t get Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody” out of my head as… Read More
Play Episode Podcast How science fiction can predict the future and help tech innovators make better decisions Play Organizations may do better in planning for the future by thinking less like business leaders and more like science-fiction writers.… Read More
Podcast Scaling to optimism: Futurist, author and computer scientist Ramez Naam on the power of cheap tech If you were to ask globally known clean energy expert Ramez Naam what makes him optimistic about technology and the… Read More
Professional futurists converge on Seattle to pick up hints about what lies ahead Professional futurists are gathering in Seattle, for the second time in 15 years. But don’t expect to recognize them by… Read More
Geek of the Week: Futurist author Richard Yonck helps us better prepare for a rapidly changing world Daydreaming about the future is one thing. Actually being an authority on what’s to come — or at least how… Read More
Podcast GeekWire Radio: Robert Scoble on augmented reality, Amazon, and how technology is changing what it means to be human In three years, everyone will be wearing virtual reality goggles and watching drone racing, wearing virtual makeup and commuting to… Read More
Stephen Hawking: Mad scientists could kill us all – that’s why we need space colonies British physicist Stephen Hawking says we need to colonize other worlds because humanity will almost certainly face a disaster on… Read More
Asteroids, plagues and why science needs more sex appeal: Our futurists take on the good and bad in tech It’s almost a great setup for a joke: What happens when an astronaut and two science fiction writers walk into… Read More
