Future Tense

We're now halfway through the UN-designated "Ocean Decade" — new research initiatives have... more

Humans have an evolutionary bias toward seeking convenience, experts say. But what happens... more

Policing has always embraced new technologies and Artificial Intelligence is, of course, t... more

How real is the link between Artificial Intelligence and increased productivity? Jon Whitt... more

Cities across the world are beginning to sink — some by as much as 10 centimetres a year. ... more

We face multiple looming demographic crises — and our responses seemingly contradict each ... more

South Korea is a test case in how to maintain democracy against sustained pressure from di... more

Suffering internal division and stymied by geopolitical bullying, the United Nations is fa... more

Synthetic biologists are hard at work developing artificial biological molecules as the fi... more

What will Earth look like when humans become extinct? What "technofossils" will paleontolo... more

History has many lessons for how to develop a successful civilisation. The trick is to und... more

Australia and Canada share much in common, politically, historically and socially. Why the... more

The International commitment to ban landmines is wavering. Several European countries are ... more

Researchers and corporations are already working to relocate data servers beyond the Earth... more

Forgetting is the only safe response to the world's problems, from a geopolitical perspect... more

Donald Trump is establishing a US Strategic Bitcoin Reserve. He wants it to rival the coun... more

There's been growing research and investment in projects that use the oceans to artificial... more

YouTube is the second biggest website in the world, containing more than 14.8 billion vide... more

We like to think that increases in efficiency lead to greater sustainability – to lower re... more

Human beings have a bias toward optimism, says astrophysicist turned author and editor, Su... more

Artificial intelligence, it turns out, has a heavy human backend — they're called "data la... more

Does the spirit of the "Futurist" movement live on today in the likes of Elon Musk and Ame... more

Does modern economic thinking act as a roadblock to change? Economists Kate Raworth and Ra... more

It certainly feels like a very shouty world. But have we really reached a new low point in... more