Frontier Institute for Applied Futures

On the Frontier

On the Frontier

Did You Know?

Did You Know? Future of Work — 39%: Employers expect 39% of workers' core skills to change or become outdated by 2030; 85% plan to prioritize upskilling. Source: World Economic Forum, Future of Jobs Report 2025. Did You Know? Orchestrated Intelligence — ~7 months: The length of task that frontier AI models can complete with 50% success has doubled roughly every seven months since 2019. Source: METR. Did You Know? Robotics — 59%: China installed 354,000 industrial robots in 2025, nearly three of every five installed worldwide. Source: International Federation of Robotics. Did You Know? Wheels & Wings — 837,513: The FAA counted 837,513 registered drones as of Nov 2025. Source: Federal Aviation Administration. Did You Know? Advanced Computing — $12.6B: Investment in quantum technology start-ups reached $12.6 billion in 2025, about 6.3x the 2024 level. Source: McKinsey. Did You Know? Regenerative Science — 97.5%: A brain-computer interface let a man with ALS turn attempted speech into text at 97.5% word accuracy. Source: New England Journal of Medicine. Did You Know? Dynamic Ecosystems — ~18x: Ocean heat content hit a record high in 2025; the ocean gained roughly 18 times humanity's annual energy use in heat per year. Source: World Meteorological Organization.