Future

The first statistically significant results are in: not only can Large Language Model (LLM) AIs generate new expert-level scientific research ideas, but their ideas are more original and exciting than the best of ours – as judged by human experts.

About 66 million years ago, the reign of reptiles came to a dramatic end. Scientists have now predicted that mammals will meet their maker in a similar cataclysm in about 250 million years’ time, as the continents collide to form a new supercontinent.

Look how far we've come in the last 35 years, and imagine where we'll be in 2056. What will the Olympic Games look like in an age of genetic editing, advanced bionics, augmented reality, advanced medicine, neural links and artificial intelligence?

The usual suspects, like steroids, are closely monitored in sports but what about other drugs such as psychedelics, not commonly thought to be performance-enhancing? Can LSD improve athletic performance, and if so what does this mean for elite sport?

New Atlas spoke to several leading psychedelic researchers to get their thoughts on three big future-forward questions. Where will psychedelic science be in 2030, what hurdles do researchers face, and what research topic is yet to be answered?

A new report from Samsung draws on the opinions of six of Britain’s leading academics and futurists.

Britain's armed forces take a look into the future with young engineers predicting what the Royal Marines in 2050 will look like.

This year's CBRE Urban Photographer of the Year competition asked photographers to envision life in a city of the future. Spanish photographer Alfonso Béjar took out the grand prize with a glorious shot of Valencia's futurist City of Arts and Sciences.

The winners of the 2018 Laka Competition have been revealed, collecting an exciting array of strange and innovative conceptual designs that focus on providing architectural or technological solutions to current environmental or social problems.

Renowned physicist and futurist Dr. Michio Kaku is about to start a speaking tour of New Zealand and Australia, speaking about no less weighty a topic than the future of humanity. We had a chance to speak to him about science, the new space race, AI and the greatest threats to humanity.

As we look forward to a 21st century filled with massive mega-cities, and extraordinary technological innovation, we must ask how are our science fiction visions influencing the cities we build, and what can we learn from some of these prescient fictional texts?

What are we going to do with the extra free time made possible by autonomous cars? Intel and Warner Bros. are developing what they call “in-cabin immersive experiences” designed to keep you entertained while you're being chauffeured around.