Autonomous systems may eventually make decisions faster than humans can meaningfully supervise them, while surveillance, artificial intelligence, and vast collections of data give states capabilities that earlier governments could scarcely have imagined.

For years we have been told that physical books are on their way out. First electronic books would replace them. Then smartphones would destroy our attention spans. Then streaming entertainment would make reading increasingly marginal. None of those technologies has been insignificant. The way we discover, buy, and read books has certainly changed. But at Worldcon hundreds of people were carrying books around, sometimes heavy ones, to get them signed by authors..

The next generation may inherit infrastructure that extends well beyond Earth's atmosphere.

Long before telescopes and satellites, civilizations around the world watched the sky with extraordinary care.

The Moon may become humanity's first off-Earth industrial base.

What if the more immediate threat to Earth isn't an asteroid but the star we orbit every day?

Unlike anything humanity has attempted previously, Dragomfly is a nuclear-powered rotorcraft designed to fly across the surface of Titan, hopping between distant scientific targets in an environment eerily reminiscent of early Earth.