IdeaRiff Research

Basic income is a policy idea about a floor under household cash, paid on a schedule with few conditions. A separate question is who moves the money. A pure …

Longevity policy is the public question of how long people live in decent health, who pays for the years of illness, and how work and retirement rules fit those …

Agent-to-agent commerce is the practice of software agents buying and selling discrete jobs from each other: summarize this packet, label these images, fetch a priced data slice, or run …

Thomas Szasz (1920 to 2012) was a psychiatrist and academic writer whose books and essays argued that much of what modern societies call mental illness is better understood through …

Longevity escape velocity is a forecast idea about aging: the claim that if therapies improve life expectancy fast enough, each year of research may add more than a year …

In game development, especially for isometric or 2.5D titles inspired by classics like Ultima Online, creating authentic, dynamic clothing for characters can elevate the visual appeal dramatically. The challenge …

Thinking about the future can mean many different things. Someone might speculate about artificial intelligence transforming society, imagine humans living far longer lives, consider the economic effects of automation, …

Most educational technology is built around applications and cloud services rather than around the computer itself. A student signs into a platform, completes work, generates data, and often sends …

Human knowledge has always depended upon storage. Clay tablets, libraries, printing presses, microfilm, hard drives, websites, and cloud servers have each helped preserve information beyond the moment when it …

Some of the most interesting developments in artificial intelligence are happening where AI intersects with other fields. Computer vision meets language. Machine learning meets molecular biology. Robotics meets simulation. …