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Welcome to Future, a place to make sense of, well, the future as technology changes the way we work, live, and play.

The world watched when a container ship blocked the Suez Canal. Amid a frenzy of global trade demand, the world’s shipping infrastructure is starting to break.

We will inevitably blend distributed work with in-person, but the details are much harder than they appear.

It's easy to think extinction equals failure, but in fact, past life may encode the solutions to our most pressing future problems.

What does it mean to be productive? In a post-pandemic world, we need multidimensional measures to understand worker productivity.

While COVID-19 vaccinations in the U.S. are continuing apace, calls are growing for a more ambitious strategy to rapidly vaccinate the entire world, and especially in developing nations. Legal proceedings around this issue were trigger...

Consumers pay for what’s scarce. And within the crowded, cheap, content-rich world of online education, what's scarce is community.

Features and benefits, challenges ahead, and the road to mainstream acceptance and adoption

With a software-first approach, we can improve transparency, automate tedious processes, and in some cases, even avoid the need for costly lawyers altogether.

How to decide the guiding metrics for every type of business, based on a survey of employees at over 40 of today's most successful growth-stage companies.