Picture this. It's the early 1970s, and futurists are sitting in wood-paneled offices predicting a world of flying cars, robot butlers, and meals in pill form. Most of those visions turned into ...

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The Simpsons has become notorious for predicting the future. It’s less a case of The Simpsons’ writers’ room being populated by uncanny Nostradamus-level seers, and more a case of history repeating ...

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 ...

A groundbreaking study, published in the September 2025 issue of the International Review of Economics & Finance, reveals that a surprisingly simple metric—the difference between current S&P 500 ...

What if you could predict the future, not with a crystal ball, but with math? In this guide, Veritasium explains how a 120-year-old concept called Markov chains has become a silent force shaping ...

Guest column: For centuries, humans looked to seers and astrologers to determine fate. Today, we look to algorithms, and the loss of agency is the same. Carissa Véliz is an associate professor at the ...

Crawford leaders offer expert insight into the trends and forces that will shape the U.S. claims landscape in 2026 ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Built for the Future: U.S. Predictions Report 2026, a new ...