earthquake of perspective
Morality is a technology to build a better world
It’s not just material technologies that make our lives better. Civilization is also a collection of moral technologies.
Good robots, bad robots, and the future of work
You say 'the robots will take our jobs' like it's a bad thing.
One life: Imagining a radical acceptance of death
Could a future religion in which death is final create a real utopia?
The problem with eternity
Thinking 500 or 10,000 or a million years in the future is hard enough. Yet some people toss around eternity as if they understand it.
In the year 2525: Beyond trivial divisions
One of the less tangible changes over time may be in the ways we categorize each other.
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.
Literally building the future: Infrastructure as an act of secular love
When we fix a bridge or give someone better healthcare, we’re saying that this life and this world are worth protecting.
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?
I want to die like a dog
Dying like a dog is the best death I can imagine.
The saved and the damned of Proxima Centauri B
How might Christianity work intelligent alien life into their worldview? Did everyone get a Jesus?
On ‘tomorrow sorrow’: How we grieve the future today
Humans have the capacity to grieve the world ahead, knowing how much is going wrong today. But tomorrow sorrow can make us stronger actors.