Recent Articles from Thomas Frey
A Peek Into the Scandalous Future of Hyper-Influence Marketing
Over the coming years we will see a shift from simply selling ads to the sale of custom tailored, hyper-influence packages.
The Futurist: Anticipations of Weaponized A.I.
35 examples of the artificial intelligence that could negatively impact our existing societal structure.
17 wildcards that will impact the future of electricity
The future of electricity can best be broken into four fundamental categories – power generation, power distribution, electric storage, and changes in demand.
Have we reached peak electricity usage?
Ten years ago the trajectory for electrical use in America peaked and started on a different course, declining for reasons we don’t fully understand yet.
20 startling ways retail will shift in the self-driving mobile business era
When it comes to retail, we don’t remember an evolution, we only remember a revolution.
The 78 skills that will be most difficult to automate
Robots are coming. They’re coming with or without our blessing, and in shapes and forms we can’t even imagine. But they also come with limits, limits that we will soon discover along the way.
14 fallacies of the coming robot apocalypse
For now, professions that require resourcefulness, flexibility and creativity still appear to be impervious to obsolescence. Here are the 14 fallacies of the coming robot apocalypse.
No more drivers: 15 more predictions and rules for the road of the future
The Futurist unveils 15 more predictions for life after driverless cars become mainstream.
10 shocking predictions about driverless cars
The Futurist forecasts that the inevitable rollout of driverless vehicles will have a transformative impact on work, play and everything in between.
How a super metal is going to transform the way we get power
Our current power grid, composed of huge metal towers with dangling wires stretched across every continent in the world will be replaced with a thin strand of graphene, buried underground, that works a million times better than anything we have today.
Why Bitcoin has value
Bitcoin isn’t another bank or payment processor coming up with new ways to move old dollars. Bitcoin is instead a simple and elegant replacement for the entire concept of money.
In an uncertain world, Bitcoin trumps gold
Today, we are seeing clear signs that Bitcoin is replacing gold as the safe haven currency of choice for key investors in countries all over the world. When surprises happen, people buy Bitcoin.