The Future

Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon.com, explains his plan for success.

Human values evolve. So how will we raise virtuous A.I.s?

Depending on the answer, one of the famous unsolved Millennium problems could have major implications in our lives.

A tool that can slowly build a better world.

What if consciousness isn’t all about the brain?

A new study flies in the face of anecdotal evidence and raises questions about how we read data.

As costs go down and the benefits become more clear, can we afford not to eat lab-grown meat?

The greatest space program spinoff? Human collaboration.

Future vacationing could be pretty different.

Why do we celebrate Halloween, and what have pumpkins got to do with it?

What is it, do we have any, and why does it matter?

Many of our greatest fears stem from uncertainty about the future, and technology has made the future very uncertain indeed.

Sure, some expert-level knowledge is needed if you want to program artificial intelligence. But AI expert Ben Goertzel posits that you also need something that Guns N’ Roses sang about: a lil’ patience.

AI expert Ben Goertzel is no stranger to building out-of-this-world artificial intelligence, and he wants others to join him in this new and very exciting field.

Giving human rights to a being with unlimited knowledge? Probably not a good idea.

Should we be scared of a robot job apocalypse? Not all at once, says Accenture CTO Paul Daugherty.

A sobering thought to anyone laughing off the thought of robot overlords.

What is the danger in creating something smarter than you? You can’t control it, and pretty soon it could control you.

Artificial intelligence has the capability to far surpass our intelligence in a relatively short period of time, but we have to lay the right groundwork now while we still can.

At the dawn of the AI era, where decisions made now could affect the future of mankind, regulation over tech giants is needed now more than ever.

Once a lucrative exercise anyone could do, bitcoin mining has grown out of control, and governments are weighing what to do.

Complex problems undermine the very principle of meritocracy: the idea that the ‘best person’ should be hired. There is no best person.

The term “hodl” originated in a drunken post about Bitcoin from 2013, but it’s evolved into a movement in the cryptocurrency community.

Everybody seems to be making money on bitcoin and other cryptocurrency, but not many people grasp how the underlying technology works. Bitcoin is now traded on the exchanges for futures contracts. Is this problematic for amateur day traders that may not understand how bitcoin works?

Getting your vote to where it matters can be harder and more corrupt than it should be. Could blockchain technology build a better system and rebuild people’s trust?

We can “read” genes with ease now, but still can’t say what most of them “mean.” To show why we need clearer “causology” and fitter metaphors, let’s scrutinize cars and their parts like we do bodies and genes.

Imagine reading by plant light, and glow-in-the-dark trees instead of street lamps. That’s on the horizon thanks to these engineers.

A machine learning algorithm has shown it can discover planets from weak signals overlooked in the Kepler spacecraft’s database.

UC Berkeley researchers create a robot that learns by playing and can predict the future of its actions.

Here’s why coding skills alone won’t save you from job automation.