From driverless highways to AI tutors and esports overtaking traditional sports, experts predict how technology will reshape ...

In chaotic times, it helps to be able to predict the future so you can plan for it. A new Stanford study can help.

For centuries, humans looked to seers and astrologers to determine fate. Today, we look to algorithms, and the loss of agency ...

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 ...

Picture this. It's the early 1970s, and futurists are sitting in wood-paneled offices predicting a world of flying cars, robot butlers, and meals in pill form. Most of those visions turned into ...

Three books unpack our infatuation with prediction, and what we lose when we outsource this task to machines. To be human is, fundamentally, to be a forecaster. Occasionally a pretty good one. Trying ...

AI has been going through something of an adolescent phase. It seems each week brings new headline-grabbing breakthroughs that set users and businesses scrambling to adopt the technology and find ways ...

I am a worrier, and have been for most of my life. At some point, someone dear and smart teased me that I worry about the wrong things. The things that hit me, she noted, were never the things I ...