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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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Dale McGowan
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A theory of future music

A music professor tries to imagine the music of the distant future.

Juhem Navarro-Rivera
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Projecting secular power into future elections

Already influential, secular voters will soon be the dominant voice in US elections, says political analyst Juhem Navarro-Rivera.

Bruce Ledewitz
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We cannot let a secular fear of God-belief poison law and politics

Author and law professor Bruce Ledewitz warns that the rejection of objective morality and meaning imperils the future we claim to want.

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?

Adam Lee
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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.

Dale McGowan
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Look up or don’t look up: We probably won’t see the one that gets us

Tick tick, y'all.

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.

Dale McGowan
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The disorienting weirdness of GPT's hallucinations

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

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.