The Space Settlement Museum
Why the next great space museum won’t look backward at rockets — it’ll look forward at neighborhoods By Futurist Thomas Frey Walk into almost any space museum today and you’ll find the same story told in slightly different rooms: a rocket standing on...
The Future Where Objects Have Opinions
Last Tuesday morning, I stood in my kitchen and asked my toaster what it thought of my breakfast choices. “Bagels again?” it said, in the mildly judgmental tone toasters will apparently develop by 2040. “You had a bagel yesterday. And the day before....
Invisible Billionaires
Why tomorrow’s richest people may own nothing you can see, touch, or photograph By Futurist Thomas Frey For the last hundred years, wealth has been loud. It bought yachts the size of city blocks, private islands with their own zip codes, and sports franchises...