The Great Unbundling of the City
What Happens When a Place Stops Being Necessary By Futurist Thomas Frey Cities exist partly because people historically needed to cluster around jobs, stores, schools, hospitals, entertainment, and transportation. If those functions become mobile, autonomous, virtual,...
The First Generation Raised by AI
What Happens When a Child’s Best Friend Never Gets Tired By Futurist Thomas Frey Children growing up today may develop lifelong relationships with AI tutors, companions, coaches, and advisors that know them better than almost anyone else. The profound question...
When We Lose Our Identity to AI
The Quiet Crisis Nobody Saw Coming By Futurist Thomas Frey For thousands of years, humans have known who they are by comparing themselves to two things: other humans, and the natural world. Artificial intelligence has just become a third mirror — and unlike the other...
The First Human Who Will Live to 150 May Already Be 70
Longevity science isn’t just extending life anymore. It’s starting to treat age itself as a condition. By Futurist Thomas Frey Here’s a sentence worth sitting with for a moment: the person who becomes the first human to reach 150 years old might...