Adam Lee

Adam Lee

Atheist author and speaker from New York City.

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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

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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.

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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.

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Is the US headed for a cold civil war?

A majority of Americans fear that political violence is imminent. But it may not take quite the form we imagine.

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Be an average citizen of the future, now

Why not get ahead of the curve?

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The coming cleanup era

It's nice to imagine building a big, shiny future. But there's some un-sexy work to do first.

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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.

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The future is a prisoner's dilemma

Our future is increasingly made worse by a refusal to cooperate.

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Climbing the Kardashev ladder: How civilization survives

The power to control ever-greater amounts of energy is a hallmark of civilization’s progress, and humanity is poised to take the next big step.

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An urgent message from the future

I'm sure you have questions.

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What would you write to the future?

The Future Library Project is collecting books that won’t be published in our lifetime.

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Our AI future: Don’t fear the Singularity

AI futurists assume that faster thinking automatically produces greater intelligence, leading to a Singularity of transcendent machine minds. But speed is the less important half of intelligence.