By John M. Smart

The iPad and its successors could revolutionize television. But only if and when we choose this future.

Sixty people interview one of today’s hottest science-fiction authors and most dedicated open Internet advocates.

By Samuel Gerald Collins

Why forecasters relying on linear projections sometimes get “stuck.”

Mosquitoes Beware!

Reducing future mosquito populations may be as simple as simulating the scent of an enemy.

A group of undergraduates at Northeastern University demonstrated in June that they could steer a robot via thought. The subject in the experiment watched a computer screen and selected commands using his retina, causing electrical activity in the brain’s visual cortex ranging from 4 to 100 hertz. The signals were then translated to a small robot, similar to the Roomba vacuum cleaner.

By Dennis M. Bushnell

In the second installment of our 2020 Visionaries series, we look at media and spirituality in the next decade and beyond.

Peter Norvig

March 2008

Peter Norvig is the Director of Research for Google

Futurist: If there was one key breakthrough in AI that would radically change the way people think about it that was printed, on the front page of the New York Times, what would the headline read?