Thomas Frey CSP
@ThomasFrey
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Futurist speaker, architect of the future, author of Epiphany Z, Founder of the DaVinci Institute, Futurist Speaker Inc, NSA, https://t.co/BHkiv1FM6i
Denver, CO
Joined October 2007
The Reality Forge: Your Brain Becomes the Experience Engine What if the next leap in tech didn’t involve VR goggles or AR glasses—but a device that rewires your brain so completely you can’t tell reality from invention? The proposed “Reality Forge” doesn’t just simulate
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Is AI Humanity’s Greatest Invention? Few inventions have split our lives into “before” and “after” quite like tools that amplify our reach—think the printing press, electricity or the airplane. Now, consider this: we’re creating a form of non-human intelligence that learns,
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A Berkshire-focused portfolio with an actively managed options strategy for monthly income potential.
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Call Your Smart Butler…Or They Will Call You By 2040, your personal AI assistant won’t just live in your phone—it’ll inhabit your home, sync with every routine, detect health issues before you do, organize your social life and run errands without prompting. This isn’t
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One Billion Robots—The Next Societal Overhaul A staggering $3 trillion program is underway to deploy one billion humanoid and autonomous robots by 2040, creating a worldwide “Robot Internet” where machines don’t just work for us—they work with us. These aren’t factory arms;
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The future isn’t just about automation—it’s about the death of downtime. “Your robot will clean while you sleep, your drone will deliver while you work, your car will drive while you think — idle time is being engineered out of existence!” — Futurist Thomas Frey,
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How the OpenAI-Microsoft relationship went from the most consequential alliance in AI to one of many between the startup and cloud providers.
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The Transoceanic Floating City Network: Next-Generation Seasteading Meets the Cruise Industry Imagine modular ocean platforms the size of cities, anchored in open water by 2040, doubling as permanent homes and high-end cruise destinations. The Transoceanic Floating City Network
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The Global Education Singularity: A $500 Billion Bet on Universal Genius-Level Learning by 2040 A bold plan is unfolding: invest $300–500 billion to deploy personalized AI tutors worldwide, each adapting to a student’s language, pace and context—aiming not just to educate, but to
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From Designer Babies to Super Humans: How AI and Robotics Are Rewriting Humanity's Future We’re crossing a line where the stuff of sci-fi—AI-designed gene edits, brain-computer interfaces, robotic surgery in utero—migrates into the realm of everyday reality. The “designer babies”
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On Saturday, my wife Deb and I tried out the new gondola skyride at Riverbanks Zoo & Garden in Columbia, South Carolina. It’s a stunning way to see the zoo from a whole new perspective—floating quietly above the trees, watching the world move below. It’s part adventure, part
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The Trillion-Dollar Power Beam A new space race is heating up—not for planets, but for power. Nations and corporations are pouring resources into orbiting solar platforms designed to harvest sunlight and beam energy directly to Earth. It’s an audacious trillion-dollar gamble that
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Critical Skills for the AI Age That Are not Taught in College In the age of algorithms and machine learning, the most crucial abilities go untaught in university halls: orchestrating multiple AI tools, recognizing synthetic content, redesigning your career every few months, and
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When AI Predicts the Future Better Than You Can The classic role of the futurist—scanning trends, connecting dots, envisioning what comes next—is getting disrupted. Now AI can comb through data, spot emerging patterns across disciplines, and churn out future-scenarios in seconds
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1,000 Ways to Make Money at Once—And AI Runs the Back Office Forget relying on one paycheck: imagine hundreds, even thousands of tiny income streams—blogs, micro-products, fractional investments—all coordinated by AI. The beauty isn’t the total amount you pull in, but the
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In November 2013, I had the honor of meeting Henry Bloch, the legendary founder of H&R Block, while speaking at one of his events. Few people have shaped an industry the way he did—turning a simple idea about helping people with their taxes into a nationwide financial
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The Vitalists: Gen Z Women’s Bold New Mission A radical movement of young women known as the “Vitalists” is rewriting everything we thought about family, legacy and purpose. Fueled by robotics, mentoring networks and communal housing designed around child-raising, they’re
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Stepping Through the Stages: When Robots Become Us The barrier between human and machine is vanishing. We’re not just building lifelike robots anymore—we’re merging with machines. Neural implants, powered exoskeletons and prosthetics that feel like flesh are turning the human
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The Invisible Crisis: Why AI Interoperability Will Define the Next Decade We’re sprinting into an era where autonomous vehicles, delivery drones, warehouse bots and surgical machines abound — and here’s the catch: they largely can’t talk to each other. This coming decade won’t be
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The Megaproject Explosion: Why AI and Robotics Will Enable Humanity’s Grandest Ambitions We’re entering a phase where vast, awe-inspiring projects—planet-spanning transport networks, orbit-based manufacturing hubs, vertical cities rising from the sea—are no longer science
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Driverless Cars: The Revolution Is Uglier Than You Think Forget sleek flying pods and seamless highways — the next wave of autonomous vehicles is poised to upend everything from insurance to infrastructure, but it will be far messier and more disruptive than anyone expected.
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Beyond Unanswerable Questions: What Stumps the World When AI Can Answer Anything? In a world where AI can generate a response to any question, the real shocker isn’t its speed—it’s the tasks it still can’t answer. We’re no longer wondering what machines will get wrong, but rather
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