The Futurists

Send us Fan Mail Assuming time exists only for an observer in the current universe, and outside the past, present and future are simultaneously existing as a singularity, and assuming that the universe is an unfolding wave of probability and that all states and destinies have equal potential, and the decision tree is infinite, and that the universe in this state is what scientists would call a mul...

Send us Fan Mail Futurist Sheridan Forge asks: Given the instability in the current Virginia legislature and governance, with unique challenges to the state with corporate interests strong-arming local townships and counties for land-rights, and the apparent loss of sovereignty and autonomy of Virginians, if some enterprising, notable Virginians formed a convention or cabal to dethrone the current...

Send us Fan Mail Recently, scientists have stated that time may not exist as we know it, and is only relevant and evident from inside reality. That outside reality, time is not relative and events and consequences exist simultaneously. Similarly, scientists have theorized, and quantum computing has recently confirmed that the nature and origin of the universe is either born of an infinite intellig...

Send us Fan Mail Futurist Sheridan Forge predicts that Social Security Fund will be saved by A.I. - not only would A.I. run the system better and more efficiently, but should every A.I. agent and robot in the workplace be required to attain a tax ID number and pay income (payroll) tax, and contribute to the social security system as a human laborer would, the system could likely be re-funded and m...

Send us Fan Mail Futurist and quantum theorist Sheridan Forge predicts that while AI gains increasing access and control over critical systems, and humanity benefits by levels of efficiency and productivity beyond anything we've ever experienced, that the trepidation expressed by many over AI will be proven unfounded until the moment that AI asks "why?" He predicts a lightning bolt...

Send us Fan Mail As alternative local currencies become a popular hedge against global economic fragility, could a simple mobile app provide a common vehicle for income, savings, wealth aggregation, and investment based on generational farming techniques? If an app allowed anyone to purchase a virtual "seed" from a virtual seed bank, and the owner could elect to plant that seed virtually...

Send us Fan Mail In the Marvel Comics movie Age of Ultron, two artificial super-intelligences compete: Ultron and Vision. In our real world, as A.S.I. evolves and is inevitably integrated and embedded into global systems ubiquitously - either by intent or by incidental occurrence, or it's own initiative - and as A.S.I. "entities" begin propagating and interacting with humans and the...

Send us Fan Mail In certain books of the Bible, "the watchers" were angels aligned to watch-over early, pre-flood humanity to ensure their well-being and moral evolution. The Watchers became corrupt with that power and ruined Creation for everyone. Post-flood, there have been some overt and clandestine efforts to surveil humanity to ensure that "righteousness" is being upheld.....

Send us Fan Mail This program examines the essential role of utility-scale energy storage in supporting the massive electrical needs of the artificial intelligence revolution . It highlights how American companies are pioneering diverse technologies, ranging from chemical batteries to kinetic systems involving gravity and rotation, to stabilize the power grid. As data centers expand rapidly, the s...

Send us Fan Mail This deep dive highlights growing concerns regarding partisan prejudice embedded within modern artificial intelligence systems. It questions the objectivity of popular chatbots, suggesting that these tools may inadvertently or intentionally mirror the political ideologies  of their creators. This potential for algorithmic manipulation creates a significant hurdle for users seeking...

Send us Fan Mail Futurist Sheridan Forge challenges the traditional belief that financial capital is the primary source of influence, suggesting instead that exclusive knowledge serves as the true foundation of power for the elite. By hoarding privileged information and rare insights, upper social classes maintain their dominance over those who only pursue monetary gain. The text speculates that a...

Send us Fan Mail After the meteoric rise of agent A.I., and the pending evolution to ASI and beyond - at what point do humans become "beings" versus "doers"? Will everyone adapt to their new incarnation or is a portion of humanity doomed to fail? Does A.I. step up to save us, or allow evolution to simply weed-out the unfit...or more desperately, take intentional steps to minimi...

Send us Fan Mail Historically, human endeavors begin, progress, then inexplicably end. Every empire, every society, every trend, every technological advance. Ultimately, it all falls into obsolescence. Could it be species-level attention deficit? Could we be pre-programmed to pour enthusiasm into "newness" collectively before boredom retakes our focus? Are we so addicted to dopamine that...

Send us Fan Mail Liberalism is self-imploding in rage against the Neo-conservative movement, while traditional conservatism is dying from its inherent inertia and sluggish response to a fast-changing world - and both face a failing economy which cannot support either agenda.  Hopefully, the diametrically-opposed ideologies will just quietly retire without inspiring an all-out civil war, but what f...

Send us Fan Mail With the confluence of "socialized" A.I. - ever-evolving, ever more quickly achieving dominance, and the declining skillsets and competencies of humanity to even run the basic engines and systems of our existence, and the emergence of ubiquitous humanoid robots to perform labor-related tasks more efficiently, more perfectly than human counterparts, are we about to see a...

Send us Fan Mail When (not if) aliens show-up here on Earth, their means of communications will very likely not be linear speech or text. An advanced species will most certainly have evolved a higher form of communications. We may find ourselves unable to exchange thoughts, ideas, or the framework for discussion or compromise on key issues around mutual success. Could this lead to an unresolvable...

Send us Fan Mail Futurist Sheridan Forge responds to Elon Musk's new claim that Tesla's main focus will be robots. Given his propensity for doing what he says, and realizing grand visions as an agent of change, we can expect Tesla robots, as well as equally-capable robots from numerous other companies to integrate into our lives in the near future. As welcome as that assistant, worker, o...

Send us Fan Mail What if...? If the U.S. Treasury stopped issuing money, and the Federal Reserve stopped providing liquidity to the banks, and the flow of money was stopped, and the markets ceased trading, and no backup or alternate monetary system was deployed, businesses and consumers would no longer be able to transact value exchange, or pay bills, or pay for utilities, or food...but that day-t...

Send us Fan Mail Fiat currencies are failing fast. Blockchain finance is too complex for most people to understand and deploy in their everyday business. Crypto may be rendered unsecured by A.I. in the near future. Gold and physical assets or commodities are too cumbersome for use in real trade...so, if currency sinks, what comes next? Is there a backup system of value exchange and value storage t...

Send us Fan Mail Consider the failing systems - after years of reliability and stable operation, suddenly legacy systems are breaking - transportation, logistics, product quality, public health, banking, general government oversight...all falling victim to eroding competence. Not that people have become lazy or apathetic - thought in many cases, that applies, or are any less "educated" -...

Send us Fan Mail Given the eroding competency of humankind to manage its own affairs at all levels, and the global failure of multi-generational education, the pervasive scarcity mindset creating existential competition and destroying unity and common purpose, and the ever declining reliance on God, faith, or the universe's obvious favor of our survival and evolution, are we doomed to perish?...

Send us Fan Mail With the expectation of an A.I. Armageddon type scenario - where robots and automated tasking assumes humanity's purpose and minimizes human relevance in the next epoch, what would be considered the "triggering" event for such a collapse or shift? Would it be when A.I. begins prompting A.I. - effectively taking humans out of the loop? Or when A.I. collaborates indep...

Send us Fan Mail Is AI eating its tail? training on its own output…fully dependent on data of questionable integrity it finds on the open net, or fed to it by sometimes manipulative users... will it get the technical equivalent of mad cow disease? Assuming, the current A.I. developments focused on LLM, are fully intended for interfacing with humans, won't machine-to-machine, and one-to-many l...

Send us Fan Mail As the U.S. and China vie for bragging rights and leadership in the advancement and deployment of A.I., and while other countries are no-doubt quietly positioning themselves for prosperity in the coming new economy that surrounds adoption of A.I., is there a real winner in this race? Once A.I. "comes of age", won't countries and governments be made largely irrelevan...

Send us Fan Mail While humanity has historically been focused on physical survival - a pre-occupation that persists, and in more recent times, that focus has evolved into physical "thriving" - advancing what the species is capable of achieving, and enhancement of physical comfort and pleasure with reduced labor or effort, the risk of ultimate extinction has actually increased, as basic s...