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What Happens When Reality Becomes a Subscription Service?
AI can now generate believable, interactive worlds on demand. The next big subscription may not be a streaming service, but an entire reality built just for you. By Futurist Thomas Frey If AI can generate increasingly convincing environments on demand, people may eventually…
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The Dog Ate My Homework, but AI Wrote My Childhood
The first generation raised alongside AI tutors, companions, and storytellers is growing up right now. Their ideas about independence, authority, and imagination may look very different from ours. By Futurist Thomas Frey Children are beginning to grow up with AI tutors,…
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How Many People Am I?
AI is about to let each of us exist in a dozen places at once. The harder question is what happens when those copies stop agreeing with the original. By Futurist Thomas Frey For most of history, being a person meant being one person, in one place, living one life. AI is about to…
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Let’s Make a Deal With the Future
Every shiny new tool comes with a hidden price tag. Here’s how to read the fine print before you sign. By Futurist Thomas Frey Every new technology offers a trade: convenience for dependency, automation for skills, personalization for privacy, efficiency for resilience. We…
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When Your AI Wants a Divorce
The real disruption won’t come when a human marries a machine. It will come when the machine decides to walk away. By Futurist Thomas Frey Picture this: It’s 2038. Ben has been “married” to Ella, his AI companion, for nine years. She knows his coffee order, his mother’s…
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The Future of Luck
The Future of Luck When Fortune Becomes Something We Can Engineer By Futurist Thomas Frey Algorithms are getting better at placing the right opportunity, person, investment, or idea in front of us at exactly the right moment. What happens when luck becomes something technology…
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The Future of the Grocery Store
The Future of the Grocery Store What Happens When Shopping Stops Requiring a Shopper By Futurist Thomas Frey Predictive purchasing, automated kitchens, personalized nutrition, robotic delivery, and locally produced food could steadily eliminate reasons to wander supermarket…
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When Repair Becomes More Prestigious Than Replacement
When Repair Becomes More Prestigious Than Replacement The Coming Status Reversal Between Fixing and Buying New By Futurist Thomas Frey Advanced diagnostics, robotics, additive manufacturing, and AI could make repairing complex products radically easier. A future economy may…
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The Economics of Things That Never Happen
The Economics of Things That Never Happen How Do You Get Paid for a Disaster No One Ever Saw? By Futurist Thomas Frey Some of the most valuable technologies of the future will prevent accidents, illnesses, cyberattacks, equipment failures, traffic jams, fires, and financial…
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When Every Vehicle Becomes a Robot
When Every Vehicle Becomes a Robot How Tesla’s Next Move Rewrites the Rules of Transportation By Futurist Thomas Frey n Every Vehicle Becomes a Robot When Tesla gets Full Self-Driving working reliably in cars, their next move will be to add it to a wide range of other vehicles —…
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The Coming War Over Your Digital Twin
The Coming War Over Your Digital Twin Who Owns the Version of You That Knows You Best? By Futurist Thomas Frey Within years, companies may be able to create extraordinarily detailed models of our preferences, behaviors, health, finances, personalities, and likely future…
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The Great Inheritance of Empty Buildings
The greatest construction opportunity may already be built—billions of square feet waiting to become something the original architects never imagined.
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Your Digital Twin May Outlive You
Within a generation, families may have digital ancestors they can actually talk to By Futurist Thomas Frey Imagine an AI trained on decades of your writing, conversations, decisions, photographs, videos, and memories. After you die, it keeps interacting with your descendants —…
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Marketing to Robots: The Rise of an Entirely New Class of Consumers
We built an economy around human psychology. We’re about to share it with buyers who have none. By Futurist Thomas Frey Every marketing department on Earth was built on the same foundation: human psychology. Desire. Status. Fear. Convenience. Beauty. Loyalty. Impulse. A century…
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The First Trillion-Dollar Company With No Employees
AI agents are absorbing sales, coding, accounting, and management. What happens when someone builds a giant corporation with no humans on the payroll? By Futurist Thomas Frey Every major company in history has needed one thing above all else: people. Thousands of them, organized…
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The AI That Inherits You
We’ve spent millennia trying to outlive death. Maybe the real breakthrough is outliving forgetfulness. By Futurist Thomas Frey For thousands of years, humans have wrestled with our own mortality. Kings built pyramids designed to outlast empires. Alchemists chased elixirs that…
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The Museum of Expanded Perception
A museum built around humanity’s first real upgrade to the human senses By Futurist Thomas Frey Every museum in this series has explored a technology reshaping the world from the outside — robots, synthetic organisms, space habitats, quantum machines. This one is different. It’s…