In reviewing psychological studies, CU Boulder researcher Leaf Van Boven and colleagues find that people prioritize thinking about the future over the past Although time travel has typically been the ...

An exclusive conversation with Mark Chen and Jakub Pachocki, OpenAI’s twin heads of research, about the path toward more capable reasoning models—and superalignment. For the past couple of years, ...

“In 2026, more news organizations will understand that people don’t always want an article. Sometimes they just want clarity.” Every December, when Nieman Lab asks for predictions, I think: Why ask ...

The world of work is transforming at an unprecedented pace. Driven by technology advancements, economic volatility, and population shifts, change is unavoidable. This unrelenting upheaval gives the HR ...

Nick Foster helped Apple and Google envision the future. He has some notes. By Sarah Kessler Nick Foster doesn’t call himself a futurist. Yes, he has worked to envision the future at Nokia, Sony, ...

Earlier this year, at a national conference on the future of journalism in Canada, a few newsroom leaders and I found ourselves finally relaxed enough to speak honestly. One leader looked around the ...

Across cultures, people literally point to the future in different directions. Our hands reveal how language, writing, and ...

The 20th century was a famously fertile time for visions of the future, but the 21st century has failed to inspire them in the same way. Science fiction writer William Gibson, author of the prescient ...