Health
July 16, 2020
How Robots Are Revolutionizing Nursing
Automated helpers, like Diligent Robotics’ Moxi, could reduce the risks to frontline medical workers.
Future
Books
June 18, 2020
Will Dystopian Times Inspire Utopian Art?
Texas science fiction authors Nicky Drayden and Christopher Brown contemplate the future of writing about the future.
Politics & Policy
May 31, 2008
End of The Road
During all but two of the past twenty years, someone named Bush had led our nation or led our state. Now we’re moving on.
Feature
February 1, 2008
The Last Drop
Texas has the country’s most precise state water plan. So how is it that every one of our major cities is still on track to run dry in the next fifty years?…
Food & Drink
February 1, 2008
Appetite for the Future
What will dining be like in decades to come? We asked the state’s top chefs and foodies.
Sports
February 1, 2008
2028: The Year in Sports.
UT and A&M Form Second Football Teams After the top fifty NCAA programs were privatized, record revenues and stock splits made the IPO spin-offs inevitable. An antitrust lawsuit filed by Texas Tech and UTEP, whose teams remain not-for-profit university entities, was dismissed in federal court. ¡Viva Los Cowboys! Dallas Cowboys…
Texas Monthly Talks
February 1, 2008
Diana Natalicio
Diana Natalicio on the future of higher ed in El Paso.
Hollywood, TX
February 1, 2008
All Your Movie Are Belong to Us
Geeks from Austin will destroy American cinema.
Books
February 1, 2008
Bruce Sterling
The Brownsville native and longtime Austinite has spent most of his adult life contemplating the future: A progenitor of the scruffy cyberpunk fiction movement (he edited the short-story anthology Mirrorshades and co-authored The Difference Engine with William Gibson), he has penned ten sci-fi novels and several works of nonfiction, including…