When Neal Stephenson wrote “Snow Crash” in 1992, he set it in the future – at a time where more than a hundred million people used AR/VR glasses regularly. When do you think it was? […]

A sudden increase in AI capability suggests a weirder world in our near future. I already know people who are training GPT on their own writings, and interrogating “themselves” to discover new insights. I have […]

2022 was a momentous one in spaceflight, bringing to a close many of the most significant storylines that have dominated this industry in the last 10 to 15 years. Consider the state of play in […]

The indie artists suing Stable Diffusion may not realise it, but they’re doing the Mouse’s dirty work. Disney and the rest of Hollywood have been eerily quiet about the launch of Stable Diffusion, despite the […]

Venkatesh Rao argues that there is no polycrisis, only nostalgia for an imagined present. Crisis theories (and names) are popular. Adam Tooze’s term polycrisis currently seems to be winning. Adam Elkus, coined a similar term, […]

Here’s the most common question I get from members of the press, analysts, and others I talk to about generative AI: can you describe what impact this will have on my industry? Moore’s Law and […]

This may be the beginning of the AI epoch, but even in tech, epochs take a decade or longer to transform everything around them. The story of 2022 was the emergence of AI, first with […]

As flashy as Stable Diffusion and ChatGPT are, old heads know that the Robot Apocalypse has exactly one and only one horseman: computer programs that can write computer programs. Artificially intelligent machines can’t ascend to […]

This year in tech, too much happened and very little of it made sense, so we might just be at the whims of a random number generator. This year in tech, too much happened and […]

The International Space Station is no longer the only place where humans can live in orbit. On Nov. 29, 2022, the Shenzhou 15 mission launched from China’s Gobi Desert carrying three taikonauts – the Chinese […]

Nicole Muniz clarified the fundamental differences between NFTs and JPEG images, as well as declared Yuga’s intent to hire top Web3 talent. Nicole Muniz, CEO Yuga Labs, spoke on center stage at Lisbon’s annual technology […]

Berners-Lee said people too often conflate Web3 with “Web 3.0,” his own proposal for reshaping the internet. Tim Berners-Lee, the British computer scientist credited with inventing the World Wide Web in 1989, said Friday that […]

What does the future of entertainment look like once the larger IP holders fully embrace AI content generation? Alongside the discrete cultural products made (at least in part) by humans — blockbuster movies, prestige TV […]

Historically, periods of mass flourishing are underpinned by technological revolutions. Currently, we are undergoing a technological revolution unlike anything the world has ever seen. We have evidence, hidden in plain sight, that the world is […]

The futurist behind “Minority Report” explains 3 steps for predicting what comes next. It’s very easy to imagine how things go wrong. It’s much harder to imagine how things go right than to say, oh, […]

The science-fiction author who coined the term metaverse in his 1992 novel “Snow Crash” is going head-to-head with Meta and Microsoft to create an open-source platform for creating virtual worlds. Many developers are still working […]

Saudi Arabia has unveiled designs for a futuristic megastructure in the desert. But it is an idea that has preoccupied the imaginations of architects – and megalomaniacs – for generations. The army of consultants commissioned […]

By Y Combinator’s own track record, most of the companies launched this week won’t go on to become the next billion-dollar company, but they do give a good indication on what the next wave of […]

At its core, and despite its appropriation, Solarpunk imagines a radically different societal and economic structure. Solarpunk took inspiration from the Cyberpunk and Steampunk aesthetics that came before it—take the lush paradises of Studio Ghibli […]

Byron Reese believes that coupling massive processing power with sensors will create a species-level brain and memory. Coupling massive processing power with sensors will create a species-level brain and memory. Instead of being billions of […]

The once-vibrant transhumanist movement doesn’t capture as much attention as it used to, but as an idea it’s far from dead. The internet most certainly gave rise to the vibrant transhumanist subculture, but the emergence […]

In the next decade, an international coalition plans to build a lunar research station to transfrom humanity’s exploration and observation of the Moon. The planning phase is already underway, and it is going well. Construction […]

Oded Galor’s Sapiens – like history of civilisation predicts a happy ending for humanity. But should we trust him? The influence of the “initial conditions” that shape societies’ development is what Oded Galor has been […]

Researchers say they are close to solving the intractable problem of building lunar infrastructure. Beijing researchers say they have developed and tested the technology to build a highway on the moon. “I have often dreamed […]

Asia gets the attention, but the real economic revolution is the inevitable growth of an overlooked continent. When Nigeria has a population of over 300 million its fortunes matter on the global scale. That population […]

Every 10 years, scientists decide which planetary research missions to develop for the next decade. The new Planetary Science and Astrobiology Decadal Survey, released today, will help identify those future missions. Get ready for more […]

Andreessen Horowitz generally is responsible for a ton of money flowing into Web3, but Chris Dixon is one of the solo decision-makers so is personally are responsible for a lot of it. Chris Dixon leads […]

The UAE’s Mars 2117 program, announced in 2017, claims humans will have liveable environments, and 60,000-strong colonies, on Mars within the century. “If we are going to dream about Mars, let’s not have a mediocre […]

If Russia disconnects from — or is booted from — the internet’s governing bodies, the internet may never be the same again for any of us. Facebook has been blocked entirely by Russian authorities, while […]

Werner Herzog talks about Last Exit: Space, a new documentary on Discovery+ that explores the possibility of humans colonizing planets beyond Earth. Since it is produced and narrated by Werner Herzog (director of Grizzly Man, […]