Real Future

We launched Real Future almost two years ago to tell stories about the ways in which technology is changing both the…

A few years ago, the software start-up GitHub faced an uncomfortable truth: It could be a pretty unpleasant place.

If you were asked to imagine a flasher, you’d probably think of a cartoonish looking man in a trenchcoat, running…

Dagny Carlsson is a 104-year-old woman who loves to blog.

In early November, dozens of people gathered at Fusion's offices in Oakland with one common goal: to find new ways…

The 2016 presidential election may have been hacked. And if so, there's only days left to save it.

To Trump opponents, the country is going to hell in a hand basket. Hate crimes and swastika graffiti have been on…

In ancient Greece, the philosopher Aristotle once said that "it is possible to infer character from features."…

Joyce Taylor's family has owned a plot of land near Wichita, Kansas for over 100 years. Now 82, she grew up in a…

In the name of science, Rich Lee has done things to his body that most of us wouldn't dare imagine. He's implanted pe…

Despite what Mark Zuckerberg has insisted to the public, it doesn't take a degree in computer engineering to…

In this election, lies sometimes seemed to carry as much weight as facts. You'd see a story declaring that Hillary…

Mae Jemison, the first woman of color in space, has an alternative view on the race to get humans on Mars: it isn't…

A group of Chinese scientists have become the first to use the game-changing gene-editing technology CRISPR-Cas9 on…

Over the course of the election, we saw online discourse reach a new low.

Election results aside, the future is still female.

At this point automation is inevitable, but that just means we need to think longer and harder about how we prepare…

On Tuesday at Fusion's Real Future Fair, Edward Snowden took the stage via Snowbot to discuss the future of the…

Over the years, Twitter has become the unfortunate example of what happens on the internet when you govern your…

On the main drag of downtown San Francisco, a bearded man with a tattered t-shirt stumbles into the middle of busy…