In an era marked by complex and interwoven crises, the role of the United Nations in preparing for the future has never been more critical. Just this year, at the Summit of the Future, the ...

Not long ago, my six-year-old son was in the bath, building cities out of colorful foam blocks. (“City blocks!” he said. “Get it?”) One metropolis, on the tub’s outside edge, was supposed to be based ...

When people learn that I’m a futurist, they often assume my work involves precisely predicting what comes next, from election results and new technologies to market crashes and natural disasters. To ...

As the historic lunar flyby comes to a close, space companies and nations around the world are also shooting for the moon.

The last few centuries have seen tremendous growth in the global economy as we’ve evolved from an agriculture-based society to today’s digital society. We’ve moved from being nomads and hunters to ...

What can we make of all the predictions on the future of work? Mainly because they are not all focused on the same variables and do not all reach the same conclusion. Let me illustrate. Microsoft ...