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Mapped: The Shifting Soils of 2100

Climate change will massively redistribute the world's farmland.
Duncan Geere
1 min read

What Will the First Immortals Eat?

The first humans who will live forever might already alive–but what will they have for lunch?
Duncan Geere
5 min read

The Future of Food: A Reading List

A crash course in how new innovations are changing everything from farming to cooking.
How We Get To Next
2 min read

Bacon, Eggs, and Other Food Scares We Got Wrong

History is littered with false food scares based on weak or conflicting evidence.
Duncan Geere
5 min read

Making the “Cold” Episode of How We Got To Now

Steven Johnson explains how the show was put together.
Matt Locke
2 min read

Tech Hub Profile: Silicon Tehran

International investors are about to gain access to a fertile and untouched tech market.
Vas Panagiotopoulos
3 min read

Mapped: The World’s Animal Robot Hotspots

New artificial life forms are being created all over the planet. Here's a quick safari through some of the most important...
Darren Garrett
9 sec read

Hi, Can I Help You?

Domestic robots can be creepy–but what if they were more like pets?
Susan Cox-Smith
4 min read

Stop, Drop, and Scroll

How Big Data and smart sensors are changing firefighting
Stephanie M. McPherson
3 min read

Superintelligence Now!

Can we humans evolve fast enough to defend ourselves against the threat of AI?
Steven Johnson
10 min read