Welcome to the New OnlySky

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

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Dale McGowan
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The disorienting weirdness of GPT's hallucinations

We just aren't wired to grok this kind of interaction.

Keramet Reiter
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Is the sun setting on solitary confinement?

If our system of punishment continues to revolve around deprivation, the future will always include some version of a dark hole in the ground.

M L Clark
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The future-history we want, and the future-history we deserve

Is it any wonder that we’re lousy at imagining any futures but complete apocalypse or vague utopia?

J. H. McKenna
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In the year 2525: Beyond trivial divisions

One of the less tangible changes over time may be in the ways we categorize each other.

Dale McGowan
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For the Trump faithful, it comes down to plot armor

It's no surprise that Trump benefits from a feature you've seen on bad television.

Captain Cassidy
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Another demographic time bomb goes off for evangelicals

The future of evangelical Christianity is looking exceedingly grim.

M L Clark
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Solarpunk humanism: How we dream bigger than despair

Solarpunk offers a potent narrative space for imagining secular worlds to come, and how to get there.

Adam Lee
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When we abolished borders

After a while, it was hard to remember why we'd drawn the lines to begin with.

Bruce Ledewitz
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God and the future of secularism

Does secularism have room for elements of human life traditionally associated with God?

Jonathan MS Pearce
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Biophysicist: Society will 'eventually accept' designer babies

"Why wait 100,000 years for natural selection to do its job?"

Russell Glasser
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How A.I. is wrecking the online experience

Our shiny new toy is solving exactly the wrong problem.

Georgia Michelman
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How much should we worry about asteroids?

Astronomers have found an estimated 40% of the near-Earth asteroids that are 140 m and larger. You do the math.