The Next Big EdTech Opportunity Is Not Teaching More. It Is Proving What People Can Do
EdTech is moving beyond delivering courses and content toward continuously developing and demonstrating what people can actually do, potentially changing…
The Most Important New Technology in Human Development May Be the One That Learns How You Learn
Environmental organizations are entering a new era in which satellites, AI, environmental DNA and continuous sensing could turn nature from…
The Most Important New Technology in Human Development May Be the One That Learns How You Learn
Human development may be entering a new phase as intelligent systems begin to personalise how people learn, think, practise skills…
Your Coach Used to See You for an Hour. The Future May Let Them See the Pattern
A yoga teacher sees how you move. A life coach hears how you think. A wearable sees what happens in…
Bioinformatics Is Becoming the Operating System for Biology
Bioinformatics was once the discipline that helped scientists make sense of biological data. It is becoming something much more ambitious.…
The Fitness Tracker Is Becoming Something Much Bigger
Fitness technology is moving beyond counting steps and workouts toward continuously understanding how an individual responds to exercise, creating a…
The Brain Is Becoming a New Interface. Who Will Build the World Around It?
For decades, computers have been designed around the limits of the human body: keyboards, screens, microphones, cameras and touchscreens. Neurotechnology…
Your Genome Was Never Meant to Be Compared With One Perfect Human
A human genome sequence dissolving into a vast, interconnected landscape of many different human genomes, suggesting that there is no…
The Hospital May Be Becoming Less Important
The future of healthcare may depend less on building bigger hospitals and more on building systems that know when a…
A Piece of Another Solar System Just Passed Through Ours. What Can It Tell Us About Home?
An object formed around another star has given scientists an unprecedented opportunity to study a fragment of another planetary system…
Your Body May Be Telling You How Fast You Are Ageing Without You Knowing It
The next generation of longevity medicine may use the ordinary patterns of everyday life to understand how each person's health…
The Next Human-Machine Revolution May Begin When You Stop Giving Computers Instructions
The next stage of human-machine symbiosis may not begin with a computer inside your brain. It may begin with something…