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,...
Super Democracy 3: The Living Government
What comes after fixing the system — when the system starts fixing itself By Futurist Thomas Frey I’ve been thinking about democracy the way an engineer thinks about a bridge. Not whether bridges are good or bad, but whether this particular bridge was designed...
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...