Future Perfect Archive
Archives for November 2019
Countries like Germany and Australia are tired of measles outbreaks — so they’re moving to fine anti-vaccine parents.
Harvard law professor Martha Minow on the possibilities of restorative justice.
The $172 billion proposal aims to upgrade 1.2 million units of public housing to curb emissions.
In the US, one person dies every 15 minutes because of drug resistance.
Schmidt could save an estimated 240,000 lives instead.
How dopamine fasting works — and doesn’t.
Is it better to invest in developing clean energy technologies, say, or in trying to get a Democrat elected president?
The foundation’s malfeasance was prosecuted, but most foundation wrongdoing is never even investigated.
Most of the ultra-rich are right-wing and single-mindedly focused on lowering their taxes, and it’s a major social problem.
The ACLU is suing the FBI to find out what the government is doing with facial recognition technology. Dive in with this Reset podcast episode.
It’s not just a weird libertarian obsession. Corporate AI is already warping our lives and our governments.
How pessimism about the future affects how we think about humanity and extinction.
Gates tried to split the difference in the conversation around Big Philanthropy and Big Government.
Fair workweek laws, which aim to end unpredictable scheduling for workers, explained.
It will be a perilous decade for the only international climate treaty going.