futurism
How movies get our future wrong—and right
There's a lot we can't know about the future. But films should at least include the things we know for sure.
Is AI art causing future shock or age-old economic anxiety?
The tech isn’t the problem. Our civic failure to grow along with it is.
Forget the crystal spires—this is what cities of the future should be
The future is black and green.
Beyond nostalgia: Why America's next chapter demands forward thinking
Yearning to return to a golden age that never existed will not meet the challenges ahead.
Was I always going to write this?
It's one of the biggest and least consequential questions we can ask.
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?
An urgent message from the future
I'm sure you have questions.
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.
What would you write to the future?
The Future Library Project is collecting books that won’t be published in our lifetime.
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.
The blind, dangerous enthusiasm of a ‘Techno-Optimist’
Billionaire Marc Andreessen’s Techno-Optimist Manifesto makes the case that technology is a pure blessing, that more is always better, and it shouldn’t be regulated or held back by anyone or anything. Here’s a skeptical counterpoint.
About that handcart: Where’s it going?
Over the decades, and even centuries, people have variously claimed that we are, indeed, heading in the wrong direction.