What will the next decade bring? Here are 20 predictions from trend forecasters

Social media has swallowed the news – threatening the funding of public-interest reporting and ushering in an era when everyone has their own facts. But the consequences go far beyond journalism

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Exclusive: Oil and gas majors are planning scores of vast projects that threaten to shatter the 1.5C climate goal. If governments do not act, these firms will continue to cash in as the world burns

124,000 documents expose inner workings behind US tech firm’s rise as a global empire responsible for 19m journeys a day

This article is about the far future as postulated by science. For the far future in fiction, see Far future in science fiction and popular culture. For the far future in religion, see Far future in…

Since the release of Alvin Toffler’s "Future Shock" 50 years ago, the allure of speculative nonfiction has remained the same: We all want to know what’s coming next.

We need to design a system that embraces this technological future and taxes the assets that will make up most of the value in that world–companies and land–in order to fairly distribute some of the…

«The world will change so rapidly and drastically that an equally drastic change in policy will be needed to distribute this wealth and enable more people to pursue the life they want.»

The year 2020 gave us a glimpse of something radically new: tensions in politics, finance and geopolitics intersecting with a natural shock on a global scale.

«We can afford anything we can actually do. The problem is agreeing on what to do and how to do it.»

A growing and influential intellectual movement aims to understand why human progress happens – and how to speed it up. Garrison Lovely investigates.