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,...
The Shape of Intelligence: Why Robot Form Factors Are the Most Important Design Decision of Our Era
By Futurist Thomas Frey For most of human history, when we imagined a robot, we imagined something that looked like us. Two legs. Two arms. A head. Eyes at the top. The humanoid form — familiar, symmetrical, vaguely reassuring — dominated science fiction for a century...
The Venture Studio Data Center: Where AI Infrastructure Meets the Job Engine of the Future
By Futurist Thomas Frey and Futurist Teresa Grobecker Something important happened recently that the technology industry would be wise not to dismiss. Eric Schmidt, one of the most credentialed voices in the history of modern technology, stood before an audience and...
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...