Here's What Futurist Ray Kurzweil Thinks Life Will Be Like In The Next 20 Years

A middle management expert argues that there are often steps workers can take to increase their job security. Have you ever felt like your job is on the chopping block? It’s a difficult position to be in and it can shake your confidence. Plus, the prolonged uncertainty and anxiety that sets in before an organizational restructure can be especially painful—and many workers are worried about that prospect right now.

A practical guide how to stop buying clothes. Six years ago, Lauren Fay decided to stop buying new clothes for a full year. At the time, this seemed like a radical thing to do; but she was an early member of a growing movement devoted to drastically reducing our clothing consumption.

What’s reality, anyway? Last year, I predicted that artificial intelligence would end reality as we know it in the span of a decade. I was very wrong about the timing. While it took about 47,000 years and Marcel Duchamp’s upside-down urinal to kill art, it took AI only two years to kill reality itself.

The Bezos Earth Fund will create the Center for Sustainable Protein at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, to research cheaper and tastier alternative proteins. North Carolina might not seem like an obvious place for a research hub dedicated to breakthroughs in lab-grown meat. After all, the Tar Heel state is a leader in producing meat the old fashioned way: Its top agricultural commodity is chickens.

Bringing this mindset—plus a flexible, repeatable process—to career planning empowers professionals of all types to make great career decisions, no matter what life throws their way.   Indira Gandhi couldn’t have been more right when she said, “The power to question is the basis of all human progress.” As India’s first female prime minister, her focus was at a societal level, but the message holds on a personal level, too.

61% of Gen Z workers say they want to get a green job within the next five years. But fewer than 20% say that they see a clear path to getting those jobs. If you’re under 30, there’s a good chance that you want your next job to focus on climate change.