“For me, the key to longevity – and immortality, in a sense – has to do with transformation.”–Marilyn Manson Is transformation the key to immortality?  A better question is: will radical life extension–the end of aging–in itself be transformative?  I beli

“As an entrepreneur I like to know the next two or three things I might start a company on.  For me it was robotics, bio-hacking, and quantum.”–whurley As one of America’s leading technologists, when whurley speaks, people listen.  Lots of them.  We first

“Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.”– Arthur C. Clarke “I’m leaving my body to science fiction.”–Steven Wright   Science fiction pervades our culture.  Movies, television, books, even stage productions.  It’s rich

“The day healthcare can fully embrace AI is the day we have a revolution in terms of cutting costs and improving care.”–Fei-Fei Li   In part two of this 2-part series, Oriana Beaudet and Dan Pesut discuss a healthcare future that includes automation, arti

“Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.” – Dag Hammarskjold  While many futures are generalists, there is a need for foresight professionals centered on specific fields, as well.  Perhaps no area is

“I did not come to NASA to make history.”–Sally Ride “Going to Mars would make NASA great again.”–John Grunsfeld   A new space race is upon us.  But unlike the two-way competion days of the 1960’s and early 1970’s, it is now a multi-player  competition to

“The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.”–Malcolm X “Be open-minded, but not so open-minded that your brains fall out.”–Groucho Marx   In our myopic, short-term minded society, how do we start to take a long view of the future?   In Seeking

“This is the age of disruption.”–Sebastian Thrun “Innovations can only be disruptive in relation to something else.”–Clayton M. Christensen   Disruption.  It’s a term that’s frequently on the lips of just about anyone interested in technology.   Is it the

“As far as I’m concerned, ageing is humanity’s worst problem, by some serious distance.”–Aubrey de Grey     If we could prevent the diseases of aging, we could prevent aging itself.  We could empower “older” people to work like younger people for as long

“We should celebrate when optimism and hard work triumph over cynicism, lethargy, and fatalism.”– Sadiq Khan   Bad news sells news.   Chaos sells movies and television series.  What hope is there for the future of humanity?  But for all the gloom and doom