Did you misplace your crystal ball? Maybe you noticed that yours stopped working years ago. And yet humans keep trying in vain to predict and maintain control over situations, our lives, and the ...

Not long ago, my six-year-old son was in the bath, building cities out of colorful foam blocks. (“City blocks!” he said. “Get it?”) One metropolis, on the tub’s outside edge, was supposed to be based ...

J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...

Mr. Foster is a designer who has studied and designed for the future at companies such as Apple, Google, Nokia and Sony. Interest in “what will the future be like” has nearly doubled worldwide since ...

Nick Foster helped Apple and Google envision the future. He has some notes. By Sarah Kessler Nick Foster doesn’t call himself a futurist. Yes, he has worked to envision the future at Nokia, Sony, ...