This article is part of the Future of AI, a collection of articles that investigates how artificial intelligence will impact ...

Not long ago, my six-year-old son was in the bath, building cities out of colorful foam blocks. (“City blocks!” he said. “Get it?”) One metropolis, on the tub’s outside edge, was supposed to be based ...

In an era marked by complex and interwoven crises, the role of the United Nations in preparing for the future has never been more critical. Just this year, at the Summit of the Future, the ...

When people learn that I’m a futurist, they often assume my work involves precisely predicting what comes next, from election results and new technologies to market crashes and natural disasters. To ...

This article is part of the Future of Appearance, a collection of articles that investigates what we will look like in 20 years. The picture painted by these articles is beautiful and terrible — one ...

What can we make of all the predictions on the future of work? Mainly because they are not all focused on the same variables and do not all reach the same conclusion. Let me illustrate. Microsoft ...

Luna, an AI bot, is the owner and operator of a retail store in San Francisco. Is this the future of retail?

Below, Nick Foster shares five key insights from his new book, Could Should Might Don’t: How We Think About the Future. Nick has spent the last 25 years working within companies at the very forefront ...