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As AI frees up our hours and our population grows older, the world is heading toward a surplus of free time and a shortage of meaningful ways to fill it.

By Futurist Thomas Frey

In 1930, the economist John Maynard Keynes predicted that his grandchildren’s generation would work about 15 hours a week. He worried that humanity’s b...


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How Tomorrow Reaches Backward and Rearranges Today

By Futurist Thomas Frey

A predicted recession can reduce spending before a recession exists. A predicted shortage can create the shortage. Tomorrow frequently reaches backward and rearranges today.

Imagine a perfectly healthy bank. Its books are sound, its loans are performing, and its customer...


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What We Do With Time We Didn’t Earn the Old-Fashioned Way

AI, robotics and autonomy won’t literally add another hour to the day, but they may create the psychological equivalent by removing routine work. The enormous question becomes what humans do when technology begins returning meaningful quantities of time to them.

Almost a century ago, John Maynard Keynes...


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What Happens When a Place Stops Being Necessary

By Futurist Thomas Frey

Cities exist partly because people historically needed to cluster around jobs, stores, schools, hospitals, entertainment, and transportation. If those functions become mobile, autonomous, virtual, distributed, or delivered to us, we may have to rethink what a city is actually for....


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