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Journey into a future shaped by creativity, critical thought, and secular habits of mind. Help shape what’s next!
How Project 2025 threatens our secular democracy
It’s no surprise that Donald Trump has tried to distance himself from Project 2025, given the unpopularity of its goals. Neither is it a surprise that Trump, notoriously incurious about policy, might in fact be telling the truth when he says, "I know nothing about Project 2025"
Go easy on the weatherfolks. It's chaos out there
Weather forecasts are tangible, daily predictions of the future. But it's damn near impossible to get it right—and that's about to get much worse.
From secular society to secular civilization
In a hundred years, the Nones will likely be a majority of the US population. What will that secular society be like?
We’ve burned past +1°C. Did a 2008 climate prediction get it right?
Sixteen years ago, a documentary predicted how a warming Earth would look at each of six temperature benchmarks. Now we've passed the first.
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.
Could the rise of the nonreligious defuse the population bomb?
The UN estimate of Earth’s human population has flown past eight billion. Can less religion slow the explosion?
A transcendent secularism
2074: Transcendent secularism, combining reason and wonder, has transformed our relationship to the natural world.
I want to die like a dog
Dying like a dog is the best death I can imagine.
This secular moment
No one ever said the Death of God would be easy.
The personless apology
When it screws up, ChatGPT apologizes to me. It has the desired effect: I am defanged in the moment, willing to move on and trust again. But what is artificial remorse doing to the idea of the apology?
This clusterf*** is bigger than you think
Enjoying a morsel of good news in one corner of the world? Snap out of it.
An urgent message from the future
I'm sure you have questions.
