The Best Articles in Future

In the era of climate change, organic agriculture is about to win—or lose—big.

Members of the Global Future Council on Healthy Ageing and Longevity share ideas on how technology will enable people to live healthier, more fulfilling lives at all ages.

As COVID-19 makes density a danger, we look at what's in store for cities.

A major new report calls on humanity to tackle the biodiversity and climate crises simultaneously. Here's what that might look like.

«HUMANITY IS STRUGGLING to contain two compounding crises: skyrocketing global temperatures and plummeting biodiversity. But people tend to tackle each problem on its own»

Predicting the future is a skill. Here's how it works.

«some people are uniquely better at predicting the future than others. They’re so good at it, in fact, that they are capable of beating betting markets. Tetlock calls these folks superforecasters.»

Mapping out your goals quarter by quarter — or even week by week — can provide a sense of control.

New interpretations of the laws of thermodynamics suggest the infamous “heat death” hypothesis, which foretells the end of all life and organization in the universe, might not hold.

While classic superfoods such as the meal in a pill remain a dream of science fiction, new and intriguing ideas continue to emerge.

Shared by 30, including Taylor Lorenz, Kyle Chayka

Many side-effects deemed unacceptable in the male pill have been plaguing women for decades. Is there a double standard?

Is the future a blue, transparent hologram? Why is this the vision of the future shown in film?

Soon, you don't need to write much anymore. Artificial Intelligence will do it for you. With all the free time we will have, we could try to rethink how we learn, work, and how we communicate.

«Soon, you don’t need to write much anymore. Artificial Intelligence will do it for you. With all the free time we will have, we could try to rethink how we learn, work, and how we communicate.»

I loaded journal entries from the past 10 years into GPT-3—and started asking it questions

It can be tough to keep up with the rapid pace of innovation. Each new year delivers the full spectrum of progress from game-changing breakthroughs to incremental advancements in a wide variety of…

The public perceives OpenAI's ChatGPT as revolutionary, but the same techniques are being used and the same kind of work is going on at many research labs, says the deep learning pioneer.

Amazon launched 22 years ago this week. Its first web page shows its early days: What’s neat about this isn’t what’s changed. It’s what’s stayed the same. The line, “One million titles, consistently…

«Each iteration is a front-line battle where you’re exhausted from the last war but overconfident from its victory. So the odds keep stacking against you»

A meditation on history, science, and AI

Professionals must learn to work with the machines or they will be replaced by them.

«ChatGPT and the Future of the Professions»

Eight studies reveal a (possibly universal) bias in human imagination

«We figured that judgments must be built on comparisons: to say that something is bad is really to say that it’s worse than something else.»

A new class of incredibly powerful AI models has made recent breakthroughs possible.

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