The Token Revolution: How the Global South Becomes the Global Brain
By Futurist Thomas Frey and Futurist Teresa Grobecker For two centuries, the developing world fed the machine with its land, its labor, and its people. The next economy runs on something different — and this time, the feedback loop runs in reverse. Here is a...
The Neighborhood Becomes the Data Center
The Age of the Hyperscale Monolith Is Ending — and the Next Internet May Be Hiding on the Side of Your House By Futurist Thomas Frey The Power Wall Has Arrived For thirty years, the internet’s physical infrastructure followed a single organizing principle:...
The Data Centers That Will Float
Why the Most Radical Solution to the AI Energy Crisis Is Already at Sea By Futurist Thomas Frey The Ocean Has Been Waiting for This Conversation There is a moment in every infrastructure crisis when the most obvious solution turns out to be the one nobody was willing...
Twelve Inventions That Prove the Future Has a Sense of Humor — And Means Business
By Futurist Thomas Frey Every few years, a cluster of technologies arrives that makes you stop and ask whether the people building them are solving real problems or simply demonstrating that the problems can be solved. The twelve innovations I want to walk through...