Future
Five fundamentals for a cyber-resilient future
Cybercriminals are getting faster at exploiting security gaps. The median dwell time observed by Sophos in the past year was a short two days. Keeping pace with these agile threat actors leaves little room for forward thinking, but decisions made today will shape your organization’s ability to respond to tomorrow’s threats. The strategies below will…
The Future of the Web Is Decentralized (Whether You Like It or Not)
Let’s be real—the internet is broken. It’s a mess! Once upon a time, it was this wild, open frontier, a digital playground where anyone with a dial-up connection and some HTML skills could carve out their own little corner. Fast forward a few decades, and now? It’s a corporate-owned, algorithm-driven shopping mall where Big Tech…
Beyond the Speed of Sound: The Future of Ultra-Fast Passenger Travel
Issue: 136. Subscribers: 66,143 The charm of supersonic passenger travel didn’t end with Concorde’s retirement in 2003. Today, aerospace startups and giants alike chase ambitious dreams of passenger flights that exceed the speed of sound, connecting continents in mere hours or even minutes. But what does this resurgence mean for venture investors? By the way,…
MIT Department of Economics to launch James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Center on Inequality and Shaping the Future of Work
Starting in July, MIT’s Shaping the Future of Work Initiative in the Department of Economics will usher in a significant new era of research, policy, and education of the next generation of scholars, made possible by a gift from the James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Foundation. In recognition of the gift and the expansion…
Envisioning a future where health care tech leaves some behind
Will the perfect storm of potentially life-changing, artificial intelligence-driven health care and the desire to increase profits through subscription models alienate vulnerable patients? For the third year in a row, MIT’s Envisioning the Future of Computing Prize asked students to describe, in 3,000 words or fewer, how advancements in computing could shape human society for the better…
CSS Intelligence: Speculating On The Future Of A Smarter Language — Smashing Magazine
CSS has evolved from a purely presentational language into one with growing logical powers — thanks to features like container queries, relational pseudo-classes, and the if() function. Is it still just for styling, or is it becoming something more? Gabriel Shoyombo explores how smart CSS has become over the years, where it is heading, the…
The Switch 2’s mouse controls has me rethinking the future of games
Summary The Nintendo Switch 2 is mostly a spec-improvement over the Switch, but the Joy-Con 2’s mouse functionality is meaningfully different. Mouse controls make it easier to control complex games and could be used to make it easier to port PC games. The convergence between PC and console gaming is increasing and Nintendo is just…
Between utopia and collapse: Navigating AI’s murky middle future
Join the event trusted by enterprise leaders for nearly two decades. VB Transform brings together the people building real enterprise AI strategy. Learn more In the blog post The Gentle Singularity, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman painted a vision of the near future where AI quietly and benevolently transforms human life. There will be no sharp break,…
Reimagining Future Work And Play With XR Technologies
– Advertisement – Integrating AI and 5G, A convergence of virtual, augmented, and mixed realities is redefining industries and positioning XR as a cornerstone of India’s digital transformation. Extended reality (XR), an umbrella term encompassing virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), and mixed reality (MR), is rapidly transforming the way we interact with the digital…
For Replit’s CEO, the future of software is ‘agents all the way down’
Join the event trusted by enterprise leaders for nearly two decades. VB Transform brings together the people building real enterprise AI strategy. Learn more Can enterprise teams truly vibe code their way out of expensive SaaS contracts? Replit CEO and co-founder Amjad Masad seems to think so, and the ambitious vision could mean “agents all the…