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Journey into a future shaped by creativity, critical thought, and secular habits of mind. Help shape what’s next!
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.
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.
