Concept videos from RIM show us a future in which the tyranny of the touch screen is all consuming, and, ironically, the BlackBerry has ceased to exist.
Since September, a public-school district in Florida has been taking fingerprint scans at the entrance to schools as a way to monitor attendance. The scans are compared against a database of students to detect truants.
Take a moment and conduct a mini thought experiment. Imagine that you’re from the future many hundreds of years from now, researching what life was like in the early 21st century.
Rolling Stone’s profile of Alex Jones is a largely positive and accurate exploration of Jones’ personal history and the factors that continue to drive and motivate his work today.
Kurzweil believes that we're approaching a moment when computers will become intelligent, and not just intelligent but more intelligent than humans. When that happens, humanity — our bodies, our minds, our civilization — will be completely and irreve
Eighty years ago this year, the editor of the New York Times had a brainstorm: ask some of the day's great intellectuals for their personal vision of what the United States would be like eighty years in the future. What follows are some of the thoug
To be honest, I’m not much for New Year’s; it’s just an arbitrary day that has no more or less significance than any other day of the year, but I suppose all the time off over the holidays does give one plenty of time to pause, reflect on the previou
In 2011, with the arsenal of schemes to prop them up depleted, we predict "Crack-Up 2011": teetering economies will collapse, currency wars will ensue, trade barriers will be erected, economic unions will splinter, and the onset of the "Greatest...
As users become more mobile and businesses become more interdependent, the "security perimeter" is becoming increasingly harder to define -- and nearly impossible to defend.
So we Tea Partiers cling bitterly to our guns and religion, do we, Barry? Well, everybody seems to cling to something. Liberals cling to their envy and resentment. Republicans cling to their golf clubs. -- L. Neil Smith
Google has been testing a self-driving car on the highways of California. But cool ideas such as these have often not panned out. TIME takes a look at visions of the future we've been endlessly waiting for (and some that we're happy haven't yet arriv
The rapid rate of technological and social change means the future comes crashing towards us faster than ever before, says visionary science fiction author William Gibson.
5) You'll spend a lot of your time feeling like a dog leashed to a pole outside the grocery store – separation anxiety will become your permanent state