Every now and then, I find myself wondering about what the future really holds. Not in some abstract, sci-fi way, but in a real, down-to-earth sense. What will life actually look like in a couple of ...

The Roman sage Marcus Aurelius said we should never let the future disturb us. But then he never had a conversation with the futurologist Nick Bostrom about the state of the world in 2050. “There’s a ...