Few things reveal human overconfidence quite like a bold tech prediction that history ultimately shreds to pieces. From industry titans to Nobel laureates, some of the most brilliant minds on the ...

Most predictions about the future age badly. They tend to be too optimistic, too catastrophic, or simply too strange to take seriously. Every now and then, though, someone gets it so right that it's ...

Five times the mainstream media made “laughably inaccurate” but confident-sounding predictions about the future of technology. The mainstream media is full of confident-sounding predictions about the ...

From global famine to vanishing oil, these 18 predictions from the 1970s show just how difficult the future was to predict.

Guest column: For centuries, humans looked to seers and astrologers to determine fate. Today, we look to algorithms, and the loss of agency is the same. Editors’ note: Welcome to CNET’s new series of ...

Future technology trends are accelerating at a pace where innovations once considered science fiction are becoming practical tools in everyday life. Breakthroughs in emerging technologies like ...

For a long while now, the discussion of artificial intelligence has revolved around where it would go in the future. To some people, it would continue to be an efficient tool for automation and ...