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...
The New Retirement: Becoming More Valuable at 80 Than You Were at 50
Demographic shifts and AI are quietly dismantling one of the 20th century’s most limiting ideas — that human productivity has an expiration date By Futurist Thomas Frey The Idea That Outlived Its Usefulness Retirement as we know it was invented in 1889, when...