A Brief History of a Perfect Future: Inventing the world that we can proudly leave our kids by 2050

A Brief History of a Perfect Future

What if, instead of trying to predict the future, we could just pick the one we want-and then invent it? Well, we can.

Think of the wealth of technological resources already available to us. The computing power in that smartphone in your pocket could have guided 120 million Apollo-era spacecraft to the moon and back. A gigabyte of memory cost $300,000 in the 1980s-today, it costs a fraction of a penny. Now, try to imagine 2050, when your computing devices w...