Captain Future

One Oxford academic plans to live the rest of his life like a grad student. And he thinks you can, too. (Slate)

New York City is looking for the “Taxi of Tomorrow.” The New Yorker has a few suggestions.

We are constantly thinking about the future–planning for it, making guesses about it, trying to make it better. Not surprisingly, we’re not the first. Witness the future New York of the past. (NYT)

Google is both a verb and a noun. Behind-the-scenes changes going on at one of the world’s most visited websites are happening with an eye to the future. (Bloomberg)

Columbia’s faculty has been looking into the future, too. The Record has a whole slew of articles on Columbians and climate change.