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Baratunde Thurston & Blaise Agüera y Arcas: On Interdependence
Anne Heggli, Jonathon Keats, & Adam Csank: Art & Science at the Nevada Bristlecone Preserve
(From the archive) Jonathon Keats: Envisioning Deep Time
Bayo Akomolafe: The Untimely
Claire Isabel Webb & Nina Miolane: The Geometry of Consciousness
Eric Ries: Incorruptible by Design
Melody Jue: Ocean Memory
Stefan Sagmeister: Finally, something good.
Indy Johar: Civilizational Optioneering
Kate Crawford: Mapping Empires
Lynn Rothschild: Nature’s Hardware Store
Blaise Agüera y Arcas: What is Intelligence?
Kim Carson: Inspired by Intelligence
Sara Imari Walker: An Informational Theory of Life
Ezra Klein & Derek Thompson: Abundance
Kim Stanley Robinson & Stephen Heintz: A Logic For The Future
K Allado-McDowell: On Neural Media
Ahmed Best: Feel The Future
Benjamin Bratton: A Philosophy of Planetary Computation
Roman Krznaric & Kate Raworth: What Doughnut Economics Can Learn From History
Neal Stephenson: Polostan
Alicia Escott & Heidi Quante: The Bureau of Linguistical Reality Performance Lecture
Jonathan Cordero: Indigenous Sovereign Futures
Denise Hearn: Embodied Economies
Jared Farmer: Chronodiversity: Thinking about Time with Trees
Abby Smith Rumsey: Hijacked Histories, Polarized Futures
Henry Farrell: The Complex Aftermath of Globalization
Coco Krumme: The False Promise of Optimization
Chelsea T. Hicks & Bette Adriaanse: Radical Sharing
Anthropocene Magazine: The Climate Parables: Reporting from the Future
Ryan Phelan: Bringing Biotech to Wildlife Conservation
Becky Chambers & Annalee Newitz: Resisting Dystopia
Jenny Odell: Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock
Ismail Ali: Psychedelics: History at the Crossroads
Ryan North: How to Invent Everything
Adam Rogers: Full Spectrum: The Science of Color and Modern Human Perception
Parag Khanna: Why Mobility is Destiny
Eric Debrah Otchere: Sonic Spaces
Wade Davis: Activist Anthropology
Johanna Hoffman: Speculative Futures: Design Approaches to Foster Resilience and Co-create the Cities We Need
Kate Darling: The New Breed
Suzanne Simard: Mother Trees and the Social Forest
Alicia Eggert: This Moment Used To Be The Future
Jonathan Haidt, Kevin Kelly, & Stewart Brand: Democracy in the Next Cycle of History
Michael Tubbs: Upsetting the Setup: Creating a California for All
Edward Slingerland: Drinking for 10,000 Years: Intoxication and Civilization
Creon Levit: Space Debris and The Kessler Syndrome
Dorie Clark: The Long Game: How to be a long-term thinker in a short-term world
Kim Stanley Robinson: Climate Futures: Beyond 02022
John Markoff & Stewart Brand: Floating Upstream: The Many Lives of Stewart Brand
Prerna Singh: State, Society and Vaccines
Sean Carroll: The Passage of Time and the Meaning of Life
Neal Stephenson: Termination Shock
Geoff Manaugh & Nicola Twilley: Until Proven Safe: The History and Future of Quarantine
David Rooney: A History of Civilization in Twelve Clocks
Alexander Rose: Continuity: Discovering the Lessons behind the World’s Longest-lived Organizations
Nathaniel Rich, Ben Novak, & Ryan Phelan: Second Nature: Green Rabbits, Passenger Pigeons, Cloned Ferrets, and the Birth of a New Ecology
Tim O'Reilly: What’s The Future? It’s Up to Us.
Peter Leyden: The Transformation: A Future History of the World from 02020 to 02050
Jason Tester: Queering the Future: How LGBTQ Foresight Can Benefit All
Scurvy Salon: The History & Science of a Persistent Malady
Rick Prelinger: Bay Area Telecommunications Infrastructure History
James Nestor: The Future of Breathing
Miles Traer: The Geological Reveal: How the Rock Record Shows Our Relationship to the Natural World
Nadia Asparouhova: The Making and Maintenance of our Open Source Infrastructure
Roman Krznaric: Becoming a Better Ancestor
Julia Watson: Design by Radical Indigenism
Scott Kildall: Art Thinking + Technology: A Personal Journey of Expanding Space and Time
Genevieve Bell: The 4th Industrial Revolution: Responsible & Secure AI
Craig Childs: Tracking the First People into Ice Age North America
Peter Calthorpe: Urban Planet
Lonny J Avi Brooks: When is Wakanda: Imagining Afrofutures
Kim Stanley Robinson: Adapting to Sea Level Rise: The Science of <em>New York 2140</em>
Brian Fisher: Edible Insects
Annalee Newitz: Science Needs Fiction
Larry Brilliant: Sometimes Brilliant: in Conversation with Stewart Brand
Laurance Doyle: Interspecies Communication and the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
Rick Doblin: Transformational Psychedelics
D. Fox Harrell: Coding Ourselves/Coding Others
Jennifer Granick: Modern Surveillance: Why You Should Care and What You Can Do
Renée DiResta: Disinformation Technology: How Online Propaganda Campaigns Are Influencing Us
Michael Mikel: The Five Ages of Burning Man
Robert McIntyre: Engram Preservation: Early Work Towards Mind Uploading
Eric Ries: Long-Term Stock Exchange
Bruce Sterling: How to Be Futuristic
Fred Lyon: San Francisco Time: The Photography of Fred Lyon
Caroline Winterer: The Art and Science of Deep Time: Conceiving the Inconceivable in the 19th Century
Tiffany Shlain: 24/6: The Power of Unplugging One Day a Week
Bina Venkataraman: Long-Term Thinking in a Distracted World
Kelly Wanser: Is Reflecting Sunlight from the Atmosphere a Bridge to the Future?
Esther Dyson: The Short Now: What Addiction, Day Trading, and Most of Society’s Ills Have in Common
Adrienne Mayor: Gods and Robots: Ancient Dreams of Technology
Annalee Newitz: We're in the Wrong Timeline
Jacob Ward: The Loop: Decision Technology and How to Resist It
Andrew McAfee: More From Less
Lewis Dartnell: ORIGINS - How Earth’s history shaped human history
Brittany Cox: Horological Heritage: Generating bird song, magic, and music through mechanism
Gurjeet Singh: The Shape Of Data And Things To Come
Suhanya Raffel: World Art Through The Asian Perspective
Nicola Twilley: Exploring the Artificial Cryosphere