Robots Must Pay For Their Crimes!

FW: Thinking: How To Make A Living When Robots Take Our Jobs

One of the big questions left to answer is how will we make a living in a world where more of our work is left to automated machinery? The robots aren’t exactly poised to displace everyone tomorrow but that day is coming.

FW: Thinking: Being Human In 100 Years

What will it be like to be human one hundred years from now? It's a hard question. Some fields of science progress at breakneck speed while others languish behind for what feels like an eternity (I'm looking at you battery technology).

FW: Thinking: Racing To The Future!

Toyota has created a cutting edge simulator designed to help racing teams become familiar with every track in all sorts of conditions. It’s an incredible machine. And simulations are playing an important role in our journey into the future.

FW: Thinking: Could We Build A Real Warp Drive?

Stars are insanely far away. Science fiction writers have solved the problem with the "warp drive," which allows future humans to travel faster than light, crossing the vast emptiness of space.

FW: Thinking: Would You Have A Romantic Relationship With A Robot?

With every passing year robots and artificial intelligence become more life-like and sophisticated. But how does that affect romance?

FW: Thinking: Proxima B: Another Earth Just Next Door

In August 2016 astronomers made a huge announcement: they had discovered a potentially habitable exoplanet right in our cosmic backyard. The world is called Proxima B, and it's located within Alpha Centauri, the closest star system to Earth.

FW: Thinking: Will Robots Be Made of Living Tissue?

Although biomimicking robots may be the wave of the future, our technology isn't quite there yet. Until we make a few major breakthroughs in shrinking and powering portable mechanical parts, there's just no way that our robots can compete with the mo

FW: Thinking: Hacking People For Good

In the future a wave of biologic super-enhancements will make you and me faster, smarter, stronger and healthier… but what about BETTER?

FW: Thinking: Is It Time To Build Floating Airports?

Floating airports would solve some major problems that plague their land-bound cousins, offering virtually unlimited runway expansion to cities with very limited land area. Today we're looking at the crazy engineering ideas that could be the future o

FW: Thinking: Can We Use Genetics To Build NEW Species?

Scientists at the J. Craig Venter Institute sequenced the genome of the bacterium Mycoplasma mycoides and coded it into a computer.

FW: Thinking: Robots Must Pay For Their Crimes!

Traditionally when a robot injures someone or damages property we hold the robot's creator or owner accountable. But that notion is changing.

FW: Thinking: Edible Electronics

From ingestible origami robots to password pills, this week we take a look at the weird future of literal technology consumption!