future

“Everyone on set reverted to 10-year-old children—even Salma Hayek had a good time”

When the robot apocalypse finally comes, says Scott Feschuk, let’s at least try to die with some dignity

The rapid pace of technological change has given rise to a new occupation: futurist. But in Canada, you can count them on one hand.

You people of 2012 are far too serious. Stop worrying and love the robot revolution.

In conversation with Brian Bethune

Professional futurists gather in Toronto this weekend to discuss everything from how to live forever to climate engineering

Certificates for a “modest fee”

‘You are the Weird Mom,’ whispered my daughter. ‘There’s one on every tour and you are it.’

‘You are the Weird Mom,’ whispered my daughter. “There’s one on every tour
and you are it.”

Without homework, where will students learn to do work they can’t do at school?

The tale of a 12-year-old map-obsessed genius may point the way forward for publishers

The monthly news magazine published by UBC has a neat little feature this month: they asked a handful of researchers to talk about interesting and futuristic-y developments in their field.