When I googled “English major who taught herself calculus,” Google gave me the result I wanted — plus a most unhelpful suggestion.

In 2009, futurist and venture capitalist Juan Enriquez had big ideas about how the human species is about to evolve. As a complement to his TED Talk, “The next species of human,” he compiled this useful list of important research we should all be tracking.

Here’s what we humans are really going to do with the hybrid brains that Ray Kurzweil proposes we’ll have by 2030.

“Success in creating Artificial Intelligence would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, it might also be the last.”

Stephen Hawking

Source: The Independent

From machine intelligence to post-subsistence economies, Google’s Blaise Agüera y Arcas lays out 6 (okay, 7) ways everything is set to change.

From the climate crisis to rising inequality to the debate about transparency and privacy, vote in our online poll to determine which will be the biggest driver of change in the next 30 years.

At 16, Brittany Wenger created a tool to diagnose breast cancer, helping women detect cancer early. Here’s how, and why, she did it.