Future Tense

Jeffrey Cole, the Director of the Center for the Future at USC, Annenberg, calls them the most sophisticated media generation we’ve ever seen. They’re the ‘millennials’ and they’re every advertiser’s dream consumer.

Advertising in the digital age is watching everything you do...

What will become of news in the digital age?

Preparing for the Apocalypse might sound extreme, but should we all be better prepared for impending disaster?

Searching for gender equality, or economic security? Science Fiction allows us to dream up worlds that are possible.

Imagine a city where everything from cars to street lights to traffic bridges are connected....

With political deadlock in Washington, a hapless president, frustrated allies, and a failing sense of national self-confidence -- is America in its ultimate decline?

In this edition of Future Tense we hear from two prominent thinkers on the intersection between humanity and technology.

The United States has signalled its willingness to give up its unofficial stewardship role of the Internet. Who should take over, and who will?

In part two of our look at online comments and cyber civility (or the lack there of) we hear from two leading media industry practitioners: