Don't expect to be able to upload your cat's brain into your Roomba any time soon..

My own suspicion is that a stand-alone artificial mind will be more a tool of narrow utility than something especially apocalyptic..

The reality is that de-carbonisation is not happening fast enough..

The difference between e-mail and regular mail is that computers handle e-mail, and computers never decide to come to work one day and shoot all the ….

To be clear, geoengineering won't solve global warming. It's not a 'techno-fix.' It would be enormously risky and almost certainly lead to troubling ….

It's remarkably easy to dig up enormous amounts of information about individuals, without their consent..

Computer programmers, biotechnologists, environmental scientists, neuroscientists, nanotech engineers - all of these fields, and more, should have at….

Everything we think about regarding sustainability - from energy to agriculture to manufacturing to population - has a water footprint. Almost all of….

Futures thinking is hard work. Fortunately, you do get better at it with practice. It's worth the effort..

In a Photoshopped world, only the skeptical eye prevails..

Blended-reality technology could play in a limited, walled-garden world, but history suggests that it won't really take off until it offers broad fre….

Foresight turns out to be a critical adaptive strategy for times of great stress..

The idea of sustainability can imply there is one perfect, unchanging future, if only we could work out how to get there. Resilience might be more us….

Nobody's going to fix the world for us, but working together, making use of technological innovations and human communities alike, we might just be a….

Is there a better example of natural selection in action than 'Project Runway?'.

But here's the ugly truth: nature doesn't care about democracy, or who's right, or what's fair. And because of the slow-change aspect of climate, we ….

Nearly every communication method we invent eventually conveys unwanted commercial messages..

Even if we were to stop putting out greenhouse gases right now, we'd still face decades of warming..

Sustainability is a seemingly laudable goal - it tells us we need to live within our means, whether economic, ecological, or political - but it's ins….

Preventing global warming from becoming a planetary catastrophe may take something even more drastic than renewable energy, superefficient urban desi….

Most of us who work as professional futurists never really stop gathering information - you never know when a provocative, potentially disruptive new….