Welcome to the New OnlySky
Journey into a future shaped by creativity, critical thought, and secular habits of mind. Help shape what’s next!
The disorienting weirdness of GPT's hallucinations
We just aren't wired to grok this kind of interaction.
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.
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?
In the year 2525: Beyond trivial divisions
One of the less tangible changes over time may be in the ways we categorize each other.
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.
Another demographic time bomb goes off for evangelicals
The future of evangelical Christianity is looking exceedingly grim.
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.
When we abolished borders
After a while, it was hard to remember why we'd drawn the lines to begin with.
God and the future of secularism
Does secularism have room for elements of human life traditionally associated with God?
Biophysicist: Society will 'eventually accept' designer babies
"Why wait 100,000 years for natural selection to do its job?"
How A.I. is wrecking the online experience
Our shiny new toy is solving exactly the wrong problem.
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.
