The year is 65,000 BCE, and as a Thylacoleo, you and your kind were the great hunters of ancient Australia. You roamed the land freely and lived in equilibrium with the fellow predators and prey that occupied the land alongside you. The seasons brought change, but your status in the animal kingdom remained unchallenged for as long as you and your ancestors could remember. Then one day, newcomers appeared.

When it comes to humanity, let's just say we don't have the greatest track record when it comes to cohabitating with ‘the other.' Be it the genocide of the Jews in Germany or the Tutsis' in Rwanda, the enslavement of Africans by Western nations or the Southeast Asian indentured slaves now working in Middle East Gulf nations, or even the current persecution experienced by Mexicans in the US or Syrian refugees in select EU countries.

We’ve built pyramids. We learned to harness electricity. We understand how our universe formed after the Big Bang (mostly). And of course, the cliché example, we’ve put a man on the moon. Yet, in spite of all these accomplishments, the human brain remains far outside the understanding of modern science and is, by default, the most complex object in the known universe—or at least our understanding of it.

This not-so-positive prediction will focus on European geopolitics as it relates to climate change between 2040 and 2050. As you read on, you’ll see a Europe that’s crippled by food shortages and widespread rioting. You’ll see a Europe where the UK pulls out of the European Union entirely, while the rest of the participating nations bow to Russia’s growing sphere of influence. And you’ll also see a Europe where much of its nations fall into the hands of ultra-nationalist governments who target the many millions of climate refugees escaping to Europe from Africa and the Middle East.

First, it was punch cards; then it was the iconic mouse and keyboard. The tools and systems we use to engage with computers are what allows us to control and build the world around us in ways unimaginable to our ancestors. We've come a long way to be sure, but when it comes to the field of user interface (UI, the means by which we interact with computer systems), we haven't seen anything yet.

Cities are where most of the world's wealth is generated. Cities often decide the fates of elections. Cities increasingly define and control the flow of capital, people, and ideas between countries.

Cities are the future of nations. 

Cities don't create themselves. They are planned chaos. They are ongoing experiments that all urbanites take part in every day, experiments whose goal is to discover the magic alchemy that allows millions of people to live together safely, happily, and prosperously. 

One of the biggest roadblocks for millennials struggling to become adults is the exploding cost of owning a home, particularly in the places where they want to live: cities.

Self-driving cars are the hype machines keeping the tech media on its toes. But for all their potential to disrupt the global automotive and taxi industries, they are also destined to have an equally massive impact on how we grow our cities and how we'll live inside them. 

Some people think property tax reform is an unbelievably boring subject. Usually, you would be right. But not today. The innovation in property taxes we’ll be covering below will melt your pants off. So get ready, because you’re about to dive right into it!