Recent Articles from Thomas Frey
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.
Cracking the code for the future of education
We’re entering a world that will require higher caliber people to make it work, and it would be preposterous for us to think our existing systems can suddenly start producing better results.
More on the perplexing future of intellectual property
As we move into a globally connected world with borderless communications and borderless economies, whose authority will come into play?
The perplexing future of intellectual property
Every person is radiating information every hour of every day. Just as the information we mentally emit can be logged and constitute the basis for a copyright or invention, the information we physically emit has value.
How virtual reality will transform the future of news
Next-generation virtual reality news will enable viewers to become engaged with the topics on a far deeper emotional level, to the point where some will become emotionally addicted to this kind of broadcast.
More incredibly cool things to do in the library of the future
Libraries are rapidly transitioning from a place for passive visitors who consume information to active participants who would much rather produce it.
122 things you'll be able to do in the library of the future
With digital comes an exponential increase in the ways we can access, manipulate, search and store each element in the knowledge universe. As a result, our expectations surrounding libraries are also beginning to change.
Eight hot transformative tech opportunities you should know about
In a connected digital environment, innovation is parsed into far smaller pieces, enabling even more people to contribute. Today, we are witnessing the convergence of technologies, each with the potential to grow exponentially into an Internet-sized opportunity.
72 stunning things that will be common in 10 years
If we leapfrog ahead 10 years and take notice of the radically different lives we will be living, we will notice how a few key technologies paved the way for massive new industries. Here is a glimpse of a stunningly different future that will come into view over the next decade.