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The Future Of... | The Next Battleground for Open Source Is Your Car
It all seems upside down: a major toy company releases its first tablet; a major search company works on its first car. Yet all of this makes sense when you realize everyone just wants to be – or...
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The Future Of... | From Airbnb and Coursera to Uber: Government Shouldn’t...
The state of Minnesota briefly banned free online education. But this isn’t an isolated government dispute in regulating the "sharing economy" – whether Coursera, Uber, and Airbnb, or TaskRabbit,...
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The Future Of... | Cybercrime: Mobile Changes Everything — And No One’s Safe
Hackers love mobile malware because it represents a huge opportunity: the number of smartphones overtook the number of PCs some time ago, and it’s accelerating every day. But mobile phones aren’t just...
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The Future Of... | Who Needs Players? Simulated Games Are the Future of Sports
From the array of Thanksgiving Classic football games to family-style Turkey Bowls and other sports played this holiday, the sports menu hasn’t changed much at all over the years. Yet technology could...
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The Future Of... | Hacking the Human Brain: The Next Domain of Warfare
It's been fashionable in military circles to talk about cyberspace as a "fifth domain" for warfare, along with land, space, air and sea. But there's a sixth and arguably more important warfighting...
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The Future Of... | Forget the Internet of Things: Here Comes the ‘Internet of...
The connected vehicle is leading the automotive industry to its most significant innovation phase since the creation of the automobile itself.
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Stop Hyping Big Data and Start Paying Attention to ‘Long Data’
Our species can’t seem to escape big data. We have more data inputs, storage, and computing resources than ever, so Homo sapiens naturally does what it has always done when given new tools: it goes...
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The Future Of... | The End of the Web, Search, and Computer as We Know It
It all began with the “lifestream,” a phenomenon that I predicted in the 1990s and shared in the pages of Wired almost exactly 16 years ago. It arrived in the form of blog posts and RSS feeds, Twitter...
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How Facebook Can Totally Undermine Apple and Google in the Platform Games
The game changes as Facebook becomes really popular on mobile. At that point, Facebook’s platform starts substituting value away from Apple and Google. Who will control the data generated by the apps...
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Newsmakers, In Their Words | Google X Head on Moonshots: 10X Is Easier Than...
Here is the surprising truth: It’s often easier to make something 10 times better than it is to make it 10 percent better. Yes … really. Here’s how.
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Living in the Present Is a Disorder
We’re living in the now, we no longer have a sense of future direction, and we have a completely new relationship to time. In this Wired Q&A between author of Present Shock Rushkoff and former...
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Newsmakers, In Their Words | The Next Big Thing in Crowdfunding? Kickstarting...
What skeptics fail to realize is that the motivations of crowdfunding “investors” are different: These are not quant investors looking to maximize financial returns while minimizing risk and...
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Bitcoin Is Not as Secure, Unregulated, or Lucrative as You Might Think
Perhaps the best way to think of stolen bitcoin is as stolen art. Sure, we can hang it anywhere. Don’t expect to sell it at Christie’s. A resource that loses its value as soon as it is stolen, may be ...
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Software Is Reorganizing the World
When cloud formations take physical shape, neither their scale nor duration has an upper bound: We may begin to see cloud towns, then cloud cities, and ultimately cloud countries. At first this sounds...
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Google Glass Lead: How Wearing Tech on Our Bodies Actually Helps It Get Out...
Each time computing has become more mobile, faster to access, and more interactive, there’s been a revolution in new services and ecosystems. This time, by bringing the technology closer to us, it...
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It’s Time for You to Take the Cloud Back From Corporations
Ben Wiseman It was a typical day in the cloud. I was at my desk, streaming music onto my phone, collaborating with colleagues on synced files hosted online; I then killed a little time by horsing...
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Tomorrow’s Apps Will Come From Brilliant (And Risky) Bitcoin Code
A variety of new applications have adapted the bitcoin protocol to fulfill different purposes; the latest is Ethereum. These platforms all rely on decentralized architectures to build and maintain...
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