Twentieth-century futurists celebrated flight, communications and manufacturing. Today, they're inspired by space, AI and biotechnology. Davide Mauro/Wikimedia, CC BY-SA In “The Singularity is Nearer: ...

During Donald Trump’s first term as president, Steve Bannon provided the administration’s MAGA ideological blueprint. His reactionary brand of “America First” nationalism entailed stoking populist ...

Not so long ago, the US tech industry was the global leader not only in imagining a better tomorrow but actually building it. It brought people closer together, broke down old power structures, and ...

Tkachenko—who won a World Press Photo First Prize for his series “Escape” and the European Publishers Award for Photography for the Restricted Areas series—wanted to document how the Soviet Union ...

If you listen to New York Times columnist Ezra Klein describe his new book Abundance, it would seem the entire thesis is that at some point, Democrat-run cities stopped building houses, and if that ...

Silicon Valley’s favorite libertarians have pinned their hopes of an unregulated utopia on floating cities. Paypal billionaire Peter Thiel is among the Silicon Valley elite supporting so-called ...

In “The Singularity is Nearer: When We Merge with AI,” the futurist Ray Kurzweil imagines the point in 2045 when rapid technological progress crosses a threshold as humans merge with machines, an ...