Foresight turns out to be a critical adaptive strategy for times of great stress.

Don't expect to be able to upload your cat's brain into your Roomba any time soon.

Trying to do what your competitors are doing but basically a little bit better is probably not going to be the winning strategy. The problem is finding what your competitors wouldnt even consider doing.

By ignoring tomorrow, we undermine today.

Being connected to the Internet means being vulnerable to coordinated actions that can knock down walls of secrecy and shatter mechanisms of control.

Crackdowns on Internet content make clear the need for an anonymized Web. Now, someone just needs to implement it.

When we developed written language, we significantly increased our functional memory and our ability to share insights and knowledge across time and space. The same thing happened with the invention of the printing press, the telegraph, and the radio.