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Build Your Own Personal Submarine And Explore The Ocean

OpenROV is an open-source ocean exploration vehicle that you can build on your kitchen counter, letting anyone be an undersea adventurer from the comfort of their computer.

Build Your Own Personal Submarine And Explore The Ocean

We Are Living In The Imagination Age–And We Can Shape Our Own Future

Futurist Rita J. King says that the goal of future thinking is to cut through the crush of technological change to help people imagine a better future.

We Are Living In The Imagination Age–And We Can Shape Our Own Future

In The Future, The Whole World Will Be A Classroom

Futurist Marina Gorbis discusses the future of education and how a new “socialstructured” world will change how everyone–children and adults–learns.

In The Future, The Whole World Will Be A Classroom

Futurists Don’t Predict The Future, They Drive Us Toward Better Ones

In this video from our Futurist Forum, Dave Evans says that the role of the futurist isn’t to know exactly what will happen 100 years from now.

Futurists Don’t Predict The Future, They Drive Us Toward Better Ones

Join Us To Hear About The Future Of Education

As part of our Futurist Forum, we’re hosting a talk with Institute For The Future Executive Director Marina Gorbis about the changing ways we learn.

Join Us To Hear About The Future Of Education

How You Will Work In The Future

Futurist Glen Hiemstra discusses how our jobs–and even the idea of having a job–will change.

How You Will Work In The Future

To See The Future Of Technology, Look At The People Using It For Crime

In this video from our Futurist Forum, Jamais Cascio says that the people hacking a tech to make it serve more shady purposes (or to help them have sex) might be the best window into how it works.

To See The Future Of Technology, Look At The People Using It For Crime

Join Us To Hear About The Future Of Work And Jobs

As part of our Futurist Forum, we’re hosting a free online discussion with futurist Glen Hiemstra about how our work life is going to evolve.

Join Us To Hear About The Future Of Work And Jobs

The End Of The Future And The Rise Of The Present

Present Shock author Douglas Rushkoff talks about how the digital revolution can change our concept of time and reinvent how we live and work–if we embrace it correctly.

The End Of The Future And The Rise Of The Present

U.S. Artists Fly To Gaza To Create Murals About An Unnoticed Part Of The Conflict: Water

In its most ambitious undertaking since launching their Water Writes campaign last March, artists from the Oakland-based Estria Foundation (joined by those from the Olympia-Rafah Mural Project) headed to Gaza last month to paint murals on elementary schools housing water filtration and desalinization units, and publicize its need for clean drinking water and upgraded sewage removal.

U.S. Artists Fly To Gaza To Create Murals About An Unnoticed Part Of The Conflict: Water

Impact

Massive, cheap testing is still a key part in ending the pandemic: Businesses could help

Invest in innovation now to be competitive in the post-COVID-19 world

This new device captures CO2 from trucks as they drive

News

WeWork is finally going public via a SPAC after abandoning an IPO in 2019

Amazon’s bizarre Twitter fights about pee bottles and taxes keep getting more ridiculous

Majority-Black-run VC firm raises $110 million seed fund

Co.Design

Not another Instagram installation: How the design industry can set a new standard for IRL experiences

These are the world’s deadliest construction projects

Chipotle is the latest company to get behind robot cars. Here’s why

Work Life

How to manage up when your boss lacks self-awareness

What I learned from taking Fridays off

Why selling my company for $10 million made me miserable (and what finally made me happy)