future

We don’t need one Elon Musk. We need 8 billion empathic futurists.

Too few babies — not overpopulation — is likely to be a major problem this century.

Say hello to your new colleague, the Workplace Environment Architect.

How can researchers map something as complex as the human brain?

Creating an afterlife—or a simulation of one—would take vast amounts of energy. Some scientists think the best way to capture that energy is by building megastructures around stars.

What happens when simulation theory becomes more than a fascinating thought experiment?

Technology of the future is shaped by the questions we ask and the ethical decisions we make today.

Welcome to the 13.8 relaunch, a new Big Think column led by physicists and friends Adam Frank and Marcelo Gleiser.

Clinical trials at the Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research focus on stabilizing cognitive loss and alleviating the psychotic symptoms that change our loved ones.

The best time to start was yesterday, the second best is now.

Dr. Katie Mack explains what dark energy is and two ways it could one day destroy the universe.

How would the ability to genetically customize children change society? Sci-fi author Eugene Clark explores the future on our horizon in Volume I of the “Genetic Pressure” series.

The AI constitution can mean the difference between war and peace—or total extinction.

What lies in store for humanity? Theoretical physicist Michio Kaku explains how different life will be for your descendants—and maybe your future self, if the timing works out.

Boston Dynamics’ notorious robot goes on an interplanetary mission.

A deeper appreciation for science and less unnecessary spending could be in our future.

The expansion of the universe is speeding up—contrary to what many physicists expected. A “heat death” is coming, but it’s not what you think.

For too many people, a poor education is a destructive barrier in their lives—a source of limitation rather than opportunity. Together, we can change this.

Is the quest to upload human consciousness and ditch our meat puppets the future—or is it fool’s gold?

Singapore has approved the sale of a lab-grown meat product in an effort to secure its food supplies against disease and climate change.

The next era in American history can look entirely different. It’s up to us to choose.

A new MIT report proposes how humans should prepare for the age of automation and artificial intelligence.

New book explores a future populated with robot helpers.

She was walking down the forest path with a roll of white cloth in her hands. It was trailing behind her like a long veil. It was sweeping needles, leaves […]

Miso Robotics has already served up over 12,000 hamburgers.

An accident left this musician with one arm. Now he is helping create future tech for others with disabilities.

This week, Big Think is partnering with Freethink to bring you amazing stories of the people and technologies that are shaping our future.

Confirmation bias is baked into the DNA of America, but it may soon be the nation’s undoing.

The results of this study showed depressive symptoms being highest in adolescence, declining in early adulthood and then climbing back up again into one’s early 30s.

We owe a lot to vaccines and the scientists that develop them. But we’ve only just touched the surface of what vaccines can do.