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,...
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...
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...