How to Live on the Precipice of Tomorrow
We are being pitched futures all the time. Every advertisement, every political campaign, every quarterly budget is a promise or a threat about what tomorrow could look like. And it…
The Case Against Hopewashing
Did you imagine the thing being better? You probably did. This was the main experiment in the studies conducted by Adam Mastroianni, a postdoc at Columbia Business School and author…
The Secret to Being Lucky
In Aeon magazine, Hales wrote, “Luck might not be a genuine quality of the world at all.” Fine. But neither is beauty or justice. At the same time, the Bloomsburg…
NCLT Orders Insolvency Proceedings Against Future Retail: Details
The National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) on Wednesday ordered insolvency resolution proceedings against Future Retail and rejected objection raised by Amazon, which is involved in a bitter legal tussle with…
Amazon Said to File New Legal Challenges in Dispute With Future Group
Amazon has filed fresh legal challenges in its long-running dispute with Indian retailer Future Group after the national antitrust agency suspended a 2019 deal between the two sides, leading to…
Tropical Futurism Envisions the Climate of Our Fate
Is the future over? To some, it has been for some time. Ten years ago, the late critic Mark Fisher wrote of “the slow cancellation of the future” in his…
The History of Predicting the Future
The future has a history. The good news is that it’s one from which we can learn; the bad news is that we very rarely do. That’s because the clearest…
If AI Is Predicting Your Future, Are You Still Free?
As you read these words, there are likely dozens of algorithms making predictions about you. It was probably an algorithm that determined that you would be exposed to this article…