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TOP500 Supercomputer sites
This is not exactly about the future, but it is at the cutting edge. The TOP500 project aims to provide a reliable basis for tracking and detecting trends in high-performance computing. Twice a year, a list of the sites operating the 500 most powerful computer systems is assembled and released.
https://top500.org/
Intel Research
Here is a source of lots of technical information on research at Intel, for a long time, the world's dominant chipmaker.
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/research/overview.html
The social implications of information technology
Inventing the Future was a short book produced for the annual conference of the National Association for Voluntary Organisations in 1996. In this academic article (from the book), Graham May of Leeds Metropolitan University acknowledges potential problems, yet warns against alarmism.
http://www.partnerships.org.uk/itf/socimp.html
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