The Good Future Project
The Good Future is entirely possible – we just need to make the right decisions today!
recent posts
- Don’t be a doomer! Good read via Noah Smith
- The Threat to Higher Education: Who’s to Blame for Endangered Careers? – by Juan Alvarez
- Chat GPT: The Over-Hyped Threat to Skilled Labor and the Ignored Threat to Unskilled Labor – (Juan Alvarez)
- We Need to Radically Rethink Conscious Awareness (by Charles M. Johnston M.D.)
- Brave New World 3.0 – by Tim Cole
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Year: 2022
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The trouble with AI is not that it is going to rule us, that its ethics are questionable, that it can be used irresponsibly…
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The futurist behind Minority Report explains 3 steps for predicting what comes next.
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WIRED founder Kevin Kelly explains why progress often looks like dystopia to the untrained eye.
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The end of the pandemic may be in sight, but COVID-19 could be a harbinger of future calamities. If global leaders do not establish equitable mechanisms to respond before the next big crisis strikes, low-income countries and high-risk groups will once again pay the highest price.
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Silicon Valley wants to create an immersive virtual world. Is that good or bad news for our well-being?
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That conundrum is playing out on dinner plates across Europe. On the one hand, a rising concern with animal welfare and an awareness of agriculture’s environmental impact, especially when it comes to climate change (animal husbandry contributes 14.5% of greenhouse gas emissions), has translated into a broad and growing movement to reduce meat consumption and…
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The Sunrise Movement cofounder shares lessons on how to grow political power
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In the novel, Robinson introduces a carbon coin, inspired by a conceptual framework designed by Delton Chen, founder of the Global Carbon Reward Initiative. Today, the need for an IMF Climate Stablecoin has become even more pressing.
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Most people now accept that to avoid a climate disaster, the world has to get to net-zero carbon emissions by 2050.
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The next 25 years will see the introduction and scaling up of not one but three fundamentally new technologies that will have world-historic impact. We’re heading into a triple-whammy tech boom — not just another Long Boom, but a Long Boom Squared.