The future is the indefinite time period after the present. Its arrival is considered inevitable due to the existence of time and the laws of physics. Due to the apparent nature of reality and the unavoidability of the future, everything that currently exists and will exist can be categorized as either permanent, meaning that it will exist for the whole of the future, or temporary, meaning that it won't and thus will come to an end.
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Microchipping your employees will always be dehumanizing — and pointless
No matter how dystopian our future might become, microchipping employees won't become a thing.
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Smart cities need to take people with disabilities into account from the get-go
As technology and urban design march into the future, more and more urban centers will begin looking like the “smart cities” ...
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Scientist have made a contact lens that lets you zoom in by blinking
Scientists from the University of California, San Diego, have created a new robotic soft contact lens that lets you zoom ...
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Five reasons future space travel should explore asteroids
Asteroids provide a direct connection between the Earth and interplanetary space. Craters such as the Barringer Crater in ...
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This women-led space program is crowdfunding Kyrgyzstan’s first satellite launch
The female-led Kyrgyz Space Program is crowdfunding for their country's first satellite launch through Patreon. The team ...
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To prepare today's workforce for AI, they must understand it's not a threat
All entrepreneurs and business leaders talk about: What does a future with AI look like? What are the gains that AI can make ...
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Black Mirror's 'Striking Vipers' episode is a surprisingly refreshing depiction of future sex
This article was originally published on SEXTECHGUIDE, an independent publication that looks at the intersection between ...
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CHEAP: Pretend you live on a spaceship with this Google Smart Light Starter Kit for $35
One of the coolest things about modern technology is simple: controlling lights with your voice. This Google Smart Light ...
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Congressional report: Bitcoin adoption 'miniscule' compared to traditional finance
Distributed ledger systems that underpin cryptocurrencies aren't capable of processing the number of transactions required ...
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Slimy fish mucus can help chemists develop new antibiotics — here's how
One day in the future, you may take a pill to treat an illness – and owe your recovery to the tiny microbes that flourish ...
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The future of AI is collaborative
AI is becoming increasingly widespread, affecting all facets of society — even Sonic drive-ins are planning to implement ...
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Here's how we can change the Earth's orbit to escape the expanding sun
In the Chinese science fiction film The Wandering Earth, recently released on Netflix, humanity attempts to change the Earth’s ...
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Driverless cars are years away, but self-driving forklifts have arrived
For several years, executives of tech and automobile companies have been promising that fully autonomous vehicles will soon ...
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Is there a sustainable future for the veggie burger?
Whole grains, legumes, and vegetables enjoyed one year at the top of the burger heap. In 2015, “the best burger of the ...
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Here's how we can make STEM classes more accessible to students in rural America
More than ever before, there is a high demand in the workforce for an increased emphasis on education in mathematics and ...
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Booking.com's CEO on diversity in tech and the future of tourism
In an age of digital advancement, the tourism industry has embraced new tech to deliver improved user experiences. With the ...
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Flying cars could cut emissions, replace planes, and reduce traffic – but not soon enough
When Chitty Chitty Bang Bang was released 50 years ago, flying cars were a flight of fancy. Now, these futuristic vehicles ...
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Smart cities are an AI-powered dystopia that's already happening
Separating the futuristic from the dystopian in the minds of the general public can be a challenge, particularly when trying ...
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Scientists: Earth might be ripped apart by gravity when the Sun dies
If it weren’t for the sun constantly showering us with energy, there would be no life on Earth. But eventually stars like ...
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Meet the nonprofit that’s already fighting for the rights of sentient robots
Movies like Blade Runner and other science fiction tend to depict robots as self-aware machines, capable of making their ...
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Why I believe the future of work is on the blockchain
Mobile and internet technologies have made it easy for people across the world to successfully work on and get paid for projects, ...
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Why designers create products that are never meant to be real
Humans are great at telling stories. We use them to teach our children, to learn about ourselves, and to plan paths to the ...
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Facebook's News Feed is a mess, but it taught me to time travel
My relationship with Facebook has changed over the past two years. I’ve never been a fan, per se, but I find myself interacting ...
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Stingy driverless cars will clog future streets instead of parking
It’s a nightmarish vision of San Francisco’s future, like something out of science fiction: streets full of driverless ...
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Future interior design will make you feel like a wizard
Imagine a house where the walls change color depending on your mood, or your tablecloth changes shape when you’re having ...
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Will the algorithmic timeline be the death of social media?
A built-in stopping point provided a sense of control over our social timelines and newsfeeds. Do you miss the days of chronological ...
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Why most of 2018's tech predictions were wrong
At the beginning of each year, tech journalists and everyday consumers love to speculate about the types of technology that ...
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Just like the Kindle, our AI and AR future will be here sooner than we think
Boris is the wise ol’ CEO of TNW who writes a weekly column on everything about being an entrepreneur — from managing ...
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Why aren’t tablets our daily work machines?
Boris is the wise ol’ CEO of TNW who writes a weekly column on everything about being an entrepreneur — from managing ...
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Why Silicon Valley will always need Wall Street
The impressive rise of Silicon Valley as it became the global hub of technological innovation certainly took many on Wall ...
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TNW and the Financial Times partner for TNW2019
Our annual technology conference is fast approaching. On May 9 and 10, we’ll bring together the brightest minds in the ...
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A deadly tree disease is devastating the citrus industry – AI can help
The citrus tree is in trouble. Florida's citrus industry has been devastated and California's is next. Artificial intelligence ...
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This (free) 'future of tech' webinar will get you your next raise
Artificial intelligence, the blockchain, Internet of Things. You know you’ve heard these terms about a thousand times but ...
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Hyundai's four-legged car isn't the future we imagined, but we'll take it
It’s clear at this point that the future of the automotive world revolves around bleeding edge technology that’s self-driving ...
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Mark Zuckerberg resolves to hold public talks on the future of tech this year
In 2019, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg intends to "host a series of public discussions about the future of technology in society." ...
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Central bank study shows little desire to issue digital currencies
63 central banks were surveyed on the status their proposed CBDCs, to determine the likelihood of an incoming wave of digitized ...
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TNW's top 11 women making waves in STEM from 2018
You've heard it a million times before — in the science, technology, engineering, and math industries, women are still ...
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2018 proved that computer vision is the most powerful manifestation of AI
You probably use computer vision every day and don't even think about it. Enjoy checking out the latest Snapchat filters? That's ...
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Revisiting Ukraine’s startup ecosystem: Confidence, ambition, and aspiration
Since my last trip to Ukraine in 2017, the country's intoxication with the startup bug has grown, driven by local success ...
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Report: People are going to have a lot of sex in self-driving cars
It's clear that driverless cars will revolutionize the way we get from Point A to Point B. Perhaps less obvious is how it'll ...
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4 fitness tech trends you can expect to see in 2019
For a tech founder, working in the industry of health and fitness is extremely challenging — but the rewards far outweigh ...
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Silicon Valley’s quest for immortality – and its worrying sacrifices
Somewhere in Silicon Valley, a man wakes early with the sunrise. Venturing into the kitchen, he pacifies his rumbling belly ...
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The real-life gruesome experiments that inspired Frankenstein
On January 17 1803, a young man named George Forster was hanged for murder at Newgate prison in London. After his execution, ...
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TNW presents the greatest gift guide in the world... ever
We've trawled through a gamut of gadgets, gear, and hardware to help you find the ideal gift for the special person in your ...
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Yale teaches robots not to mess with people's stuff
A group of computer scientists from Yale University created a machine learning paradigm for robots to understand the very ...
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Meet Silicon Valley's most unlikely venture capitalist
It's very difficult to find an hour of Arlan Hamilton's time — besides for running Backstage Capital, a VC firm "investing ...
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How opportunistic regulation can stifle innovation in blockchain
At the blockchain conferences and blockchain industry discussions over the last two years I had many chances to listen to ...
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Google’s underrated Discover feature can change how we surf the web
In October, Google made an important change to its mobile homepage. In place of the traditional page, with a search bar and ...
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Gig workers are forced to educate themselves to survive
Today’s gig workers don’t just include your local Uber drivers or handymen on TaskRabbit. More knowledge workers are ...
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How AI will make the world safer for sex workers and their clients
Sex worker rights are human rights. That's why it's time to put our technology to work making the world a safer place for ...
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Don’t post your kid online
As we set out on a two-hour drive, my pregnant girlfriend told me she didn’t want anyone, including ourselves, to share ...
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What happened to our VR future?
The latest innovation from Oculus -- the Oculus Quest -- was supposed to take the digital world by storm, but a relatively ...
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8 expert predictions on what will define tech in 2019
On the imminent death of native apps, and seven other trend predictions.
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The Facebook ad-pocalypse is coming, so spend your budget on creativity
Brands pour billions of dollars into Facebook advertising, but the social media giant isn’t going to last forever. So, ...
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London is making life way too hard for mobility tech companies
The urban mobility market has come a long way since London’s first horse drawn bus service in 1829. Even in the last five ...
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6 reasons why you should make your ‘digital consultants’ work on-site
In the future, all companies will be tech companies. Traditional firms must upgrade their technological capabilities to match ...
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The earth's fate isn't on individuals — it's on society
Saving the planet shouldn't be on each individual, as history has shown. In order to secure our planet's fate, society needs ...
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How we can turn plastic waste into green energy
Using “cold plasma pyrolysis”, plastic waste could be turned into green energy. It can convert waste plastics into hydrogen, ...
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5 lovely predictions on how Alexa will change our behavior
Happy birthday Alexa! Four years after her birth as a new kind of house servant, let’s blow out the candles, take a ...
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Smart cities are for the rich — we need to change that
Chandigarh, the capital of both India’s Punjab and its neighboring state Haryana, is a very special city. It rose from ...
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Without coaching our privacy, does Google even have a business?
Google is on a seemingly-ceaseless crusade to turn every one of its users into an open book that it can exploit for valuable ...
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Apple acquires Shazam and announces it'll now be ad-free
Apple has officially acquired the musical identification app, Shazam. The hardware giant has also stated that the app will ...
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A hands-on approach to designing for kids
This article aims to share a series of advices, stemming from lessons learned from designing for kids over a period of 12 ...
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An old physics demon could be the future of quantum computing
Demons from quantum computing's past may be no match for the current wave of research at the cutting-edge of physics and ...
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A new Spotify initiative could spell trouble for record labels (or kill Spotify)
Billboard first let the cat out of the bag in June. In an exclusive, the publication revealed that Spotify had been chasing ...
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Blockchain doesn't kill people, but smart contracts can, law professor says
Smart contracts, like the ones featured by Ethereum’s blockchain, represent simple machine intelligence, and one academic ...
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Analyst: Renewable energy will be 'effectively free' by 2030
Analysts at Swiss investment bank UBS believe that by 2030, we could all be living without much of a carbon footprint -- ...
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Alexa isn't the shopping behemoth Amazon hoped it would be
Voice shopping was supposed to be the future. Remember? Both Amazon and Google touted a world where barking a simple command ...
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This odd gadget wants to help you lose weight using your... breath?
The Lumen analyzes your metabolism through your breath, using a process called the Respiratory Quotient. Its app then recommends ...
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Prime Day is bad for Amazon’s brand
Amazon introduced Prime Day in 2015 as a way to celebrate its 20th anniversary as a one-day sale with the aim of overshadowing ...
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Paying for a service doesn’t guarantee it won’t sell your data
In the wake of Facebook’s Cambridge Analytica scandal and congressional hearings, there’s a palpable sense that the pressure ...
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Designers, don’t be afraid to let robots design
In 1961, Alan Perlis, an early pioneer in computer science, advocated that computer programming should be a requirement of ...
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4 cryptocurrency trends to watch out for
“It’s the next big revolution, just like the internet was.” “No… it’s a bubble!” Love it or hate it, ...
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Medicine's blockchainification is imminent, say researchers
Analyzing 40 PubMed journals for blockchains revealed a continued and growing interest from the healthcare research and medical ...
