Future Perfect Archive
Archives for April 2019
Some say the $1 billion donated to the Paris cathedral should’ve been directed elsewhere.
All 730 Qdoba locations will offer Impossible Meat’s plant-based beef alternative.
Grocery shopping online has long been out of reach for SNAP recipients. A new government program aims to change that.
Attempts to “fix” biased AI can actually harm black, gay, and transgender people.
On any given day, some 61,000 people are in solitary confinement in US prisons. It’s time to abolish the practice.
Scientists hooked up 32 dead pig brains to a machine to revive them. And it worked.
Most European countries have child allowances. Why not California?
A Q&A with the founders of the cutting-edge AI lab OpenAI.
A very detailed walkthrough of the big new left economic idea.
Plant-based meat is going mainstream — and fast. Here’s fresh evidence.
When wells were found to contain arsenic, people in Bangladesh turned to contaminated water sources. Kids died.
It’s the first time an AI has beat a world champion e-sports team.
Some experts said that’s the wrong choice.
A new survey asks how cash transfers stack up against services. People want their government to provide the latter.
Some are calling the Chinese experiment “an ethical nightmare.”