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...
Seven Deadly Sins of the Future: The 2026 Update
Two years deeper into the danger zone — and the stakes have never been higher By Futurist Thomas Frey Two years ago, I wrote about seven looming dangers I called the Seven Deadly Sins of the Future. At the time, they felt like warnings about what was coming. Today,...
Creating A Framework For Becoming The Future You That You’re Hoping To Meet
Why your next career won’t be chosen — it will be designed There’s a thought experiment I like to run with audiences: imagine your future self, ten years from now, walks into the room. Are you proud of them? Do you recognize them? More importantly — did...
Should the US Government Own a Piece of the AI Giants?
From Trump to Bernie Sanders, Washington is suddenly debating the same radical idea — for very different reasons The Most Unlikely Political Agreement in Washington When Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders agree on something, you should stop and pay attention. Right now,...