Future
31/08/2019 - 12:45
Underwater highways, hoverboard-based sports and holidays in space are some of the upcoming revelations which will be commonplace in 50... →
20/08/2019 - 12:36
Another 1,500 years later – today – Zoroastrianism is a dying faith, its sacred flames tended by ever fewer worshippers.
We take it for... →
09/07/2019 - 12:22
Since the birth of the world’s first “test tube baby” in 1978, around eight million people have been born by IVF. And the number may... →
03/06/2019 - 11:45
Addressing graduates and their families, Merkel decried the rise of "isolationism" and "protectionism." She said those forces have... →
03/02/2019 - 15:00
The group, which will include one Israeli, will live in an specially designed solar-powered geodesic dome, which will simulate the kind of... →
12/12/2018 - 14:12
Increased Geopolitical Risk for Business. Citing national security threats, the United States will lean heavily on Europe, Japan,... →
28/11/2018 - 13:48
The first two books dealt with the past and the future, and now Harari wants “to zoom in on the here and now,” particularly the here and... →
03/11/2018 - 12:41
Martin Rees, the U.K.’s Astronomer Royal, and co-founder of the Cambridge Center for the Study of Existential Risk, warned in the report... →
24/09/2018 - 11:28
In his fascinating new book, “21 Lessons for the 21st Century,” the historian Yuval Noah Harari creates a useful framework for confronting... →
10/08/2018 - 12:28
Snipping away at defective disease-causing genes using “molecular scissors,” studying gut bacteria to diagnose illnesses, mapping out... →
02/08/2018 - 11:56
This thesis is often confused with the claim that we shouldn’t do anything to help people in the present generation. But the long... →
20/06/2018 - 13:36
Rarely in history has a small number of metropolises bundled as much economic, political and cultural power over such vast swathes of... →