The Coming Entertainment Gap
As AI frees up our hours and our population grows older, the world is heading toward a surplus of free time and a shortage of meaningful ways to fill it. By Futurist Thomas Frey In 1930, the economist John Maynard Keynes predicted that his grandchildren’s generation...
The Most Powerful Events Are the Ones That Haven’t Happened Yet
How Tomorrow Reaches Backward and Rearranges Today By Futurist Thomas Frey A predicted recession can reduce spending before a recession exists. A predicted shortage can create the shortage. Tomorrow frequently reaches backward and rearranges today. Imagine a perfectly...
The Invention of the 25th Hour
What We Do With Time We Didn’t Earn the Old-Fashioned Way AI, robotics and autonomy won’t literally add another hour to the day, but they may create the psychological equivalent by removing routine work. The enormous question becomes what humans do when...