the wired world in 2023

[ad_1] Robert Solow, the Nobel Prize–winning economist, famously said in 1987 that you can see the computer revolution everywhere but in the productivity statistics. I predict 2023 is the year…

[ad_1] Electric vehicles (EVs) are not new. Battery-powered cars were on city roads more than a century ago. And sales of EVs have been growing steadily over the past decade.…

[ad_1] Robots already lend a hand around the home, figuratively speaking. Some can brush the char from the barbecue, others can mow your yard, wash your windows, or clean your…

[ad_1] In his 2019 Stanford address, Tim Cook warned about the threat to our “freedom to be human” from technology that looks to get inside our heads and rearrange the…

[ad_1] 2023 will be the year that the battle over data ownership takes to the streets.  The United States Supreme Court’s repeal of Roe v. Wade has politicalized women’s bodies—and…

[ad_1] In 2023, our understanding of the microbes that live inside the human gut will lead to new ideas for medicine. Today, we know that gut microbes help develop and…

[ad_1] Unprecedented heat, drought, and wildfires caused chaos and misery across the once temperate British Isles this year, as climate change made its impacts felt beyond the mid-latitudes. Across the…

[ad_1] In the spring of 2021, the world started opening up again, and we saw an unprecedented amount of movement in the global labor market. It was a moment we…

[ad_1] Cars can be very dangerous for their occupants—over 1 million people globally die in car accidents every year. Another 20 to 50 million people report nonfatal accident-related injuries annually. These…

[ad_1] The war in Ukraine was a shock, not a surprise—it was a clear and present danger ever since the Russian invasion of Crimea in 2014. It was also not…

[ad_1] Digital listening is becoming the most powerful new scientific tool for observing and preserving our natural environment. From the Arctic to the Amazon, scientists are covering the globe with…

[ad_1] In 2023, social media will change, with young users increasingly pushing for more meaningful online interactions. The dominant “legacy” players, like Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter, will give way to…

[ad_1] On June 3, 2022, as United Nations members gathered to celebrate the 50th World Environment Day, Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said it was time to eschew using gross domestic product…

[ad_1] By now, you’ve certainly heard enough hype about the metaverse to conclude that it’s on the horizon. But don’t expect many true metaverse experiences to gain mass adoption in…

[ad_1] WIRED said 12 months ago that 2022 was going to be a pivotal year for electric cars. Judging by the 18 models we told you to watch out for,…

[ad_1] In 2020, during the depths of the Covid-19 pandemic, concerns around food supply were high. This prompted big changes to the way some food is produced: There was a…

[ad_1] When was the last time you walked down a street with new buildings and felt anything positive? Or anything at all?  Modern buildings have become boring—flat, plain, shiny, rectangular,…

[ad_1] During economic downturns, businesses resort to muscle memory and do what they’ve done before. That often means budget cuts—and the deepest cuts commonly target technology investment and people. This…

[ad_1] Life expectancy in the best-performing countries has been increasing by three months per year every year since the early 1800s. Throughout most of human history, you had a roughly…

[ad_1] Developing cars that can drive without a human is a unique challenge. There are many kinds of events that fully autonomous vehicles have to be prepared to handle in…

[ad_1] In 2023, emotional AI—technology that can sense and interact with human emotions—will become one of the dominant applications of machine learning. For instance, Hume AI, founded by Alan Cowen,…

[ad_1] mRNA is one of the first molecules of life. While identified six decades ago as the carrier of the blueprint for proteins in living cells, its pharmaceutical potential was…

[ad_1] The limitless variety of fashion items, skin colors, body shapes, hair styles and other options for digital identities on today’s immersive platforms already allow millions to be whomever they…

[ad_1] Who calls the shots on how many days you end up working in the office? It has gradually dawned on bosses that it isn’t them. The real power holders?…

[ad_1] Causality will be hard to prove—was it really the words of the chatbot that put the murderer over the edge? Nobody will know for sure. But the perpetrator will…