Most predictions about the future age badly. They tend to be too optimistic, too catastrophic, or simply too strange to take seriously. Every now and then, though, someone gets it so right that it's ...

Long before the founders of Kalshi and Polymarket were even born, a handful of economists were getting amped about a novel approach to dealing with one of humanity’s more egregious shortcomings: We’re ...

Cruising Altitude has been a weekly column about air travel. Thanks for reading along! I've gotten to do some pretty cool things as an aviation journalist. I flew with Delta Air Lines' last 747 to a ...

Mustafa Suleyman, CEO of Microsoft AI, has a stark prediction for the future of white-collar work: AI could begin replacing large numbers of professionals, from law school and MBA graduates to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The future is always in front of us, brimming with of possibilities — and flying cars, of course. Since well before the days of ...

Three books unpack our infatuation with prediction, and what we lose when we outsource this task to machines. To be human is, fundamentally, to be a forecaster. Occasionally a pretty good one. Trying ...