Future Digest
The AI economy is coming. Get the tools, the stocks, and the plan to be on the winning side.
- Indexed issues, last 90 days
- 10
- Latest publication
- Sep 17, 2026
- Audience
- Checking…
- Earliest in this view
- Jul 16, 2026
Latest issues
Your Next Customer Could Be an AI Agent (opens the original)
Read excerpt
When software starts spending money, who gets paid?Imagine giving your AI assistant one instruction:“Find me a hotel in Lisbon for next weekend. Under €200 a night, close to the city center, with free cancellation. Book it if it meets those conditions.”You put your phone down.A few minutes later, the reservation arrives.You never visited a booking website. Never compared twelve browser tabs. Never entered your card details.That is the promise of agentic commerce: software that can make purchases
The First Human Cellular Rejuvenation Trial Has Begun (opens the original)
Read excerpt
For the first time, a therapy designed to make old cells behave younger has been given to a human.For most of medicine, aging has been treated as something we can slow, manage or work around.But not reverse.An old heart can be supported. An arthritic joint can be replaced. Drugs can lower the risk of diseases that become more common as we age.The cells themselves, however, still get older.Or at least, that was the assumption.Over the past two decades, researchers have discovered something much s
Your AI Agent Needs a Salary, a Budget and a Manager (opens the original)
Read excerpt
The companies that win the agent economy will not necessarily have the smartest models. They will have the best management systems.Most companies are hiring AI agents backwards.They start with the technology.They connect a model to Gmail, Slack, a CRM, a browser and perhaps a company credit card. They give it a broad instruction—find prospects, monitor competitors, answer customers, grow traffic—and call the result an AI employee.No human would ever be hired this way.You would not give a new emp
SpaceX and Rocket Lab Just Received $1.9 Billion for Missile Defense (opens the original)
Read excerpt
In roughly 48 hours, two space companies announced contracts worth almost $1.9 billion.SpaceX received $1.6 billion for 18 Falcon 9 launches. Rocket Lab received $266 million for as many as 18 suborbital missions.Neither contract was about tourism, Mars or mining the Moon. Both were connected to missile defense.I think the fastest route to a commercial space economy is becoming much less romantic—and much more investable.SpaceX is becoming defense infrastructureThe Space Force’s orders cover 18
The Robotics Boom Is Starting in Mud, Not Living Rooms (opens the original)
Read excerpt
Most robotics companies still sell a vision of the future.Agile Robots says it generated €300 million in revenue last year and expects to double that figure in 2026.The interesting part is not the humanoid robot. It is the company’s argument that manufacturing knowledge and factory integration—not AI alone—are producing the revenue.I think the first large robotics businesses will look less like consumer-electronics companies and more like unusually technical service businesses.The robot is only
Publishing over time
Last 90 days. Choose a month to open its work.
Recurring subjects
Named in the text we hold. One piece can cover several.
Audience
No verified audience measurement yet.
About this data
Counts cover the work we have indexed. Tone needs enough text and a confident classification. Excerpts and episode notes are not full articles or transcripts.
Identity or attribution wrong? Suggest a correction.