Is There a Future Perfect?

Societal changes and digital advances are renewing questions about equality, technology’s role at home and in museums, and how much information is too much

Actress Sarah Jessica Parker and Time’s Up Legal Defense Fund Leader Tina Tchen spoke at WSJ’s Future of Everything festival about how workplace culture and the media industry have changed in the wake of the #MeToo movement. Parker also weighed in on how her “Sex And The City” character Carrie Bradshaw would be portrayed today.

This is an era of disruption, whether the upending of traditional business models by new technologies or the breaking of one-time societal norms with movements like #MeToo. Where is it leading us? Are we headed to a more perfect union with technology and each other?

Innovators and industry leaders at The Wall Street Journal’s Future of Everything Festival on Thursday spoke about their predictions for equality, homes, art and medicine.

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Staking out another bold space objective, Elon Musk said the latest configuration of his rocket is designed to fly as many as 10 times without any scheduled maintenance, and ultimately could be refurbished and blast off at least 100 times.

Innovators are spinning transportation forward, cities are using data to get smarter and payments are getting digital. Experts at WSJ’s Future of Everything Festival talk about the consequences, good and bad.

White House officials promised to keep the U.S. in the lead on emerging artificial-intelligence technologies, despite competition from China and worries about potential impacts on American workers.