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FactorDaily on May 26 organised a roundtable to explore the future of jobs in the age of AI and automation will create and the reskilling effort required.

Like the Internet, AI is likely to be a massively disruptive technology change that will bring about enormous social, political and cultural change.

A flurry of flying vehicles will hit the market in the next five years. Uber Elevate wants to cash in and build an on-demand aerial mobility service.

Anyone who knows me well will attest to my obsession with futurism, especially as it concerns the future of learning. …

Mark Zuckerberg gave us a taste of his vision of the future at the Facebook annual global developer conference F8, …

On this day, 56 years ago, Yuri Gagarin became the first human to set foot in space. From then to now, our space fantasies have come a long way.

Elon Musk recently announced Neuralink. FactorDaily talks to Ramez Naam about brain-embeds, the cost of energy and the impact of exponential technologies on our planet.

Wearables have found a powerful use-case in health & fitness. But they are getting started with the first tentative steps towards man-machine coherence.

FactorDaily’s Date with Data Science event kickstarted a conversation between experts and data science aspirants about how to get started in this field.

Feeling the need to leave on short notice? Bangkok gives you visa on arrival and has all the trappings a wandering worker could want.

Arvind Mallik’s innovative teaching methods find no support from PES Institute of Technology and Management, and all his initiatives are personal.

Art Deco flying chairs may not be here yet. But personal jetpacks are not quite far away. And fully immersive …

Hyperloop is tightly wrapped around our collective imagination and we’re heralding the arrival of the ‘fifth’ mode of transport. But, will it be a reality?

Meet this digital nomad who chose the path less travelled. An entrepreneur operating four brands, every day is a weekend for him.

ISRO’s world record-beating launch of 104 satellites last week may not be enough to win the hyper-competitive launch services market.

CRISPR is the most precise, fastest and cheapest method available (till date) to manipulate the genomes of any animal (or plant for that matter).

The model of education where you learn for 20 years and work for the next 40 will get irrelevant, says Anant Agarwal, CEO of edX, the last bastion of MOOCs.

FactorDaily’s Tyagarajan S was transported to 2020. The good news is that Starbucks sells a very decent south Indian filter coffee in the future. Everything else was a bit dodgy, to say the least.

“If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they …

I’m often asked how I ended up as a nomad worker. Far from being an act of reckless courage and …