Weak Signals

Early signals from the horizon, indicating important emerging ideas, trends, and technologies that cut across all the others

Analyses and Insights

Orbital Opulence

As the orbital economy takes off, consumer markets ranging from tourism to health, food, and sport will follow. We look at some of the products and practices likely to get a boost in(to) space and back here on Earth

Enter the Metaverse

The Metaverse is all the buzz, but key pieces are already here. What will the next digital world mean for the physical counterpart, and vice-versa?

Quantum Computing

As commercial quantum computers enter the market, we examine the landscape from science to applications in chemistry, finance, cybersecurity, and more

Peak Population

In 50 years, human population will have peaked permanently – and decline has already started in countries and rural regions. What will the impacts be on culture, economics, the environment?

Animal Cognition

Optogenetics, electroencephalography, image analysis, and machine learning are being brought to bear on nonhuman thoughts

New Commercial Space

A second new space age has started, with dozens of new entrants alongside headline-grabbers like SpaceX and Virgin. How will they impact transportation, tourism, food, and materials?

Scans and Snapshots

transparent photovoltaics

topological quantum computing

superconducting quantum circuits

superconducting quantum computing

superconducting wire

space settlement

space observatory

space colonization

space factories

silicon quantum computer

silicon nanoparticles

semidefinite programming

self-healing concrete

self-cleaning windows

robotic surgery

reusable spacecraft

quantum-resistant cryptography

quantum systems

quantum-centric supercomputing

quantum-safe cryptography

quantum serverless

quantum sensing

quantum simulation

quantum software applications

quantum supremacy

quantum olfaction

quantum optimization

quantum safe technology

quantum security

quantum lambda calculus

quantum logistics

quantum machine learning

quantum mechanics

quantum error correction

quantum error mitigation

quantum finance

quantum guarded command language

quantum key distribution

quantum chemistry

quantum communication

quantum computational chemistry

quantum dot collectors

quantum economics

quantum adiabatic computation

pseudocapacitor

powered exoskeleton

post-quantum cryptography

optical tweezers

optoelectronics

noisy intermediate-scale quantum era

nitrogen-vacancy diamond

nitrogen-vacancy nv diamond

molecular sieve

middleware for quantum

magnetic cooling

low earth orbit

interspecies marriage

interspecies translation

interspecies economy

interspecies infrastructure

interspecies marketplace

interspecies coexistence

hubble space telescope

holographic wildlife sanctuaries

graphene batteries

graphene nanoplatelet

global positioning system

geostationary communications satellite

geosynchronous orbit

geometric quantum machine learning

ferrofluid sculptures

bra-ket notation

antikythera mechanism