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Journey into a future shaped by creativity, critical thought, and secular habits of mind. Help shape what’s next!

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Adam Lee
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How selecting for Harvard in utero could go sideways

As long as our culture equates wealth and success with human value, this practice is inevitable. But it could easily go wrong.

Bruce Ledewitz
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Why there won’t be a religious revival

No religion alive today is fit for a future revival.

Adam Lee
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Glimpses of the solarpunk future

As William Gibson said, the future is already here. It's just not evenly distributed. We already possess technologies that could create a world that's more sustainable, prosperous and equitable than the world as it is today. What's holding us back is that those technologies

Jonathan MS Pearce / Benjamin Wilson-Mawer
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'Shut it all down': The ethics and risks of AI

A philosopher and an AI expert explore the potential pitfalls and benefits of artificial intelligence. An ongoing series.

Dale McGowan
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How the Electoral College dies

There is a real chance that future elections will take place without the red-and-blue map of the Electoral College. Here's how it could happen.

Adam Lee
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Good robots, bad robots, and the future of work

You say 'the robots will take our jobs' like it's a bad thing.

Tony Wolf
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One life: Imagining a radical acceptance of death

Could a future religion in which death is final create a real utopia?

Becky Garrison
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Are brewpubs and tasting rooms the churches of the future?

As churches vanish, your local brewpub may help satisfy the need for human communion.

Dale McGowan
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The emptying of Florida

Many Floridians currently fleeing Hurricane Milton are unlikely to return. It may be the first big step in the predicted near-emptying of the climate-exposed peninsula.

Adam Lee
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I still want to go to Mars, but not if Elon Musk punches the ticket

It's bad enough what Musk does on Earth. I don't want him controlling my oxygen supply.

Jonathan MS Pearce
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The problem with eternity

Thinking 500 or 10,000 or a million years in the future is hard enough. Yet some people toss around eternity as if they understand it.

Tom Krattenmaker
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For a future worth living in, we need one fundamental shift

Every aspect of life in the future will take place in the jaws of a climate emergency.