How a Software Map of the Entire Planet Could Change the World Forever

This article was originally posted on The Oxford Business Review. Read the original article here. “3D map...

Reimagining Education in the Exponential Age

The future of humanity will be radically different than what we see today. As Ray Kurzweil put...

These Maps Reveal the Profound Progress and Peril of Modern Civilization

Today’s mega-threats are systemic and interconnected. The growing demand for energy and meat helps explain...

The World’s Biggest Vertical Farm Yet Is Going Up in Pennsylvania

Four and a half years ago I visited a vertical farming research facility in the Netherlands to...

Massive National Health Study Looks to Tailor Your Diet to Your Genetic Makeup

Like taxes and death, nutrition is something we can’t escape. Eating should be easy. Yet...

Future Evolution: How Will Humans Change in the Next 10,000 Years?

READER QUESTION: If humans don’t die out in a climate apocalypse or asteroid impact in the...

This Is Where Empathy Lives in the Brain, and How It Works

Mind reading comes easily to most of us. For all our divisions, humans are uncannily...

First-Ever Artificial Neuron Could Let Us Repair Brain Injuries with Silicon

The merging of man and machine is a staple of sci-fi and at the heart...

Moderna Will Develop mRNA Vaccines for 15 of the World’s Worst Diseases

To much of the world, it seemed like the Covid-19 vaccines were whipped up in...

Estonia Is a ‘Digital Republic’—What That Means and Why It May Be Everyone’s Future

People around the globe have been watching the buildup to the US election with disbelief....