Not long ago, my six-year-old son was in the bath, building cities out of colorful foam blocks. (“City blocks!” he said. “Get it?”) One metropolis, on the tub’s outside edge, was supposed to be based ...

When people learn that I’m a futurist, they often assume my work involves precisely predicting what comes next, from election results and new technologies to market crashes and natural disasters. To ...

You’ll have to time travel in the DeLorean to relive “Back to the Future.” According to franchise screenwriter Bob Gale, there won’t be any more films following up the 1985 classic, the 1989 sequel ...

Below, Nick Foster shares five key insights from his new book, Could Should Might Don’t: How We Think About the Future. Nick has spent the last 25 years working within companies at the very forefront ...

The last few centuries have seen tremendous growth in the global economy as we’ve evolved from an agriculture-based society to today’s digital society. We’ve moved from being nomads and hunters to ...

The future never feels fully certain. But in this time of rapid, intense transformation—political, technological, cultural, scientific—it’s as difficult as it ever has been to get a sense of what’s ...