Predictors of America's future fall into two camps: the extrapolators and the leapers. The extrapolators take what exists and slowly turn the dial in order to learn what's next. The leapers posit a ...

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Want to know what a 55-year-old American will sound like in the year 2050? Listen to a 20-year-old American today. They're the same people, after all. They won't sound exactly the same, of course. The ...

WASHINGTON DC – The water infrastructure of the U.S. was one of the topics on tap at this year’s America 2050 summit, convened in May by the Regional Plan Association. The related report examined “new ...

Regardless, in 2050 I predict that the political situation in the USA will look nothing like it does today. My hope is that our current era will be looked upon as a ridiculous hiccup in our democracy, ...

When you think of farming in America, the first things that come to mind are probably picturesque golden cornfields, or dairy farmers rising at the crack of dawn to milk their cows. But, according to ...

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