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Journey into a future shaped by creativity, critical thought, and secular habits of mind. Help shape what’s next!
An urgent message from the future
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The lost humanity in AI medicine
As we rush into the arms of AI medicine, will compelling research on the importance of the patient-doctor relationship be ignored?
An inch to the right, 20 years later
Wishing, in the darkest corner of your heart, that the attempt had been successful? Think again.
Virtual reality church: This tech isn’t just for gaming anymore
In which today's shrinking church reaches out to virtual reality—with weird results.
Why we'll always be terrible at predicting the future
In which we introduce a new project about predicting the future by saying it can't be done.
‘Cementing bias in a flower-scented maze’: A.I. and the eternal digital footprint
Artificial intelligence is big business, and it’s not going away.
The saved and the damned of Proxima Centauri B
How might Christianity work intelligent alien life into their worldview? Did everyone get a Jesus?
AI: The newest squirrel distracting evangelicals from their own decline
Evangelicals have expressed both dread regarding AI’s popularity and power, and excitement about its potential to turn around their decades-long decline.
How is climate anxiety impacting young people?
A landmark survey suggests that climate anxiety—a chronic fear of environmental doom—is taking an outsized psychological toll on the young.
What would you write to the future?
The Future Library Project is collecting books that won’t be published in our lifetime.
How do we talk about impending doom so that people will listen?
Books like ‘The Ministry for the Future’ offer a useful vocabulary for hashing out solutions to our overheating world.
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.
