ChatGPT is about to revolutionize the economy. We need to decide what that looks like.
You can practically hear the shrieks from corner offices around the world: “What is our ChatGPT play? How do we make money off this?” Whether it’s based on hallucinatory beliefs or not, an AI gold ru...
11 Dec 202429min
Beyond gene-edited babies: the possible paths for tinkering with human evolution
In the future, CRISPR will get easier and easier to administer, potentially opening up paths for tinkering with human evolution. What will that mean for our species? This story was written by senior b...
4 Dec 202432min
The great commercial takeover of low Earth orbit
Did you know that NASA intends to destroy the International Space Station by around 2030? Once it's gone, private companies will likely swoop in with their own replacements. Get ready for the great co...
27 Nov 202443min
The world’s on the verge of a carbon storage boom
Pump jacks and pipelines clutter the Elk Hills oil field of California, a scrubby stretch of land in the southern Central Valley that rests above one of the nation’s richest deposits of fossil fuels. ...
21 Nov 202427min
Is robotics about to have its own ChatGPT moment?
Robots that can do many of the things humans do in the home—folding laundry, cooking meals, cleaning—have been a dream of robotics research since the inception of the field in the 1950s. While engin...
13 Nov 202428min
Gorillas, militias, and Bitcoin: Why Congo’s most famous national park is betting big on crypto
In an attempt to protect its forests and famous wildlife, Virunga has become the first national park to run a Bitcoin mine. But some are wondering what crypto has to do with conservation. This story ...
6 Nov 202436min
How gamification took over the world
We live in an undeniably gamified world. We stand up and move around to close colorful rings and earn achievement badges on our smartwatches; we meditate and sleep to recharge our body batteries; we p...
30 Okt 202418min
Technology that lets us “speak” to our dead relatives has arrived. Are we ready?
Digital clones of people's dead relatives are far from perfect: they're occasionally impersonal and sometimes downright creepy. But if the technology might help us hang onto the people we love, is it ...
23 Okt 202429min
