The AI Home of the Future
Why the house that thinks for itself is arriving faster than most people realize By Futurist Thomas Frey For a century, “smart home” meant a house full of gadgets that could be controlled remotely — a thermostat you could adjust from your phone, a light...
The Autonomous Transportation Museum
A museum dedicated to vehicles that drive, fly, sail, and coordinate themselves By Futurist Thomas Frey For over a hundred years, transportation museums have told a story about human skill — the pilot’s hands on the yoke, the engineer’s grip on the...
The Space Settlement Museum
Why the next great space museum won’t look backward at rockets — it’ll look forward at neighborhoods By Futurist Thomas Frey Walk into almost any space museum today and you’ll find the same story told in slightly different rooms: a rocket standing on...
The Future Where Objects Have Opinions
Last Tuesday morning, I stood in my kitchen and asked my toaster what it thought of my breakfast choices. “Bagels again?” it said, in the mildly judgmental tone toasters will apparently develop by 2040. “You had a bagel yesterday. And the day before....