When there will be cars without drivers, it is inevitable that all vehicles on the road will be monitored, and if necessary, taken over by software that runs the entire road traffic system. Where there is software, there will be hackers, who can hack the cars, and what the car AI thinks are roads.

The social and economic power of millennials will increase remarkably during the coming years. Currently, it seems that major cities in the U.S. might be at risk of losing the competition over millennials to their mid-sized counterparts, and big cities all over the world are expected to face the same challenge in the future.

Seasteading Institute claims to build floating ”sea top communities” by 2020. French Polynesia’s Council of Ministers has passed a memorandum of understanding to allow Seasteders to build in a littoral zone in exchange for financial benefits the new floating city would bring forward.

Microsoft and the University of Cambridge have published an Artificial Intelligence software called Deep Coder that writes code by copying existing segments that it can find. Deep Coder is a radical innovation, a software robot that makes software.

Demand for electricity off the grid and during peak hours is going up. Without a massive growth of energy storage, a new energy crisis is possible.

The difference in evaluation suggests that analysts consider car and traffic software to be a much more viable industry in the future than the sheer manufacturing of cars. This said, Opel and Vauxhall were producing a steady deficit.

A key inventor of the WWW, Tim Berners-Lee is concerned about the current state of the Internet. According to Berners-Lee, three trends threaten the Internet; people have lost control over their personal data, misinformation spreads fast, and political advertising lacks transparency.

Data files have been successfully stored into DNA and extracted from it. According to Wired, researchers from Columbia University and the New York Genome Center have stored a movie, an operating system and other files on DNA molecules. The method is called DNA Fountain.

Going home at the end of the day is something most of us take for granted. However, that is a luxury that not all people have.

We are no strangers to refugees on this planet. For as long as humans have been around, there have been people who have been pushed from their homes or countries for political, social, or economic reasons.

However, there is a chance that we might have to brace for the largest migration of refugees the earth has ever seen.

Cities allowed for the creation, storage, and passing of information throughout millennia. Without them, we wouldn't have had many of the political, scientific, artistic, and technological revolutions we've had over the years. Indeed, the city of the future will quite certainly look different from the city of today. What are the phenomena changing the nature of today's cities?

Science has, over the years, benefited tremendously from advances in computing power and other types of technology. Today, scientists, from chemists to cosmologists, can run more tests in a single day than their predecessors could in a year.

With human population numbers increasing, we can expect the demand for food to continue to grow too. This trend suggests we will have to produce more food to meet that demand, or reduce the food waste we currently create. In this article, we discuss how something uncommon to Western nations - eating insects - might be the solution.