The seven-point metallic star floats on the glassy surface of the lake, reminiscent of a far-flung future civilization, or a spaceship touching down on an alien planet. It looks like something ...

As AI and autonomous warfare advance, our future mirrors a collision of Minority Report, Star Wars, The Fifth Element, and Idiocracy—demanding innovation with safeguards and clear global engagement.

Short stories appearing in dime-store magazines drove science-fiction's Golden Age in the '50s. Today, however, the market for shorter work is on life support, making it more difficult to follow in ...

Science fiction allows artists to speculate about the future through imaginative and technical concepts. But so often the prevailing vision of that future in popular culture tends toward the dystopian ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Ann Kowal Smith explores workplace culture and collaboration. Every day brings a new story about AI, from great hype about its ...

What does an ideal computer science building at Stanford look like? For Benji Welner ’27, it looks a lot like the newest addition to Stanford’s campus — the almost finished Computing and Data Science ...

Seven books comb through history, travel to distant planets and imagine our A.I. future. By Amal El-Mohtar The year’s nearly over, and it’s hard to remember where it went. Most people I know have ...