Lifeboat Foundation

This lab grown skin is capable of sweating and growing hair.

Thomas Frey’s futurist predictions will leave you beyond enlightened. Learn more about 3D printing in the future by clicking here!

Images uploaded by Mikepants.

We live in an era of accelerating change, when scientific and technological advancements are arriving rapidly. As a result, we are developing a new language to describe our civilisation as it evolves. Here are 20 terms and concepts that you’ll need to navigate our future.

Back in 2007 I put together a list of terms every self-respecting futurist should be familiar with. But now, some seven years later, it’s time for an update. I reached out to several futurists, asking them which terms or phrases have emerged or gained relevance since that time. These forward-looking thinkers provided me with some fascinating and provocative suggestions — some familiar to me, others completely new, and some a refinement of earlier conceptions. Here are their submissions, including a few of my own.

1. Co-veillance

Continue reading “20 Crucial Terms Every 21st-Century Futurist Should Know” »

Even with improvements in translation technology, there are still significant hurdles.

By David Arbesú

Wouldn’t it be wonderful to travel to a foreign country without having to worry about the nuisance of communicating in a different language?

Continue reading “Could the Language Barrier Actually Fall Within the Next 10 Years?” »

Discover & Share this Dog GIF with everyone you know. GIPHY is how you search, share, discover, and create GIFs.

Interesting News

A volcano on Alaska’s Aleutian Islands erupted Sunday afternoon and sent ash 20,000 feet into the air, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.