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Future Perfect Archive

Archives for May 2019

Technology
Tech billionaires who donate millions are just “bribing society at large,” Anand Giridharadas saysTech billionaires who donate millions are just “bribing society at large,” Anand Giridharadas says
Podcast
Technology

Zuckerberg, Bezos, and Gates shouldn’t have an outsize say in how we run our country, Giridharadas says on the latest episode of Recode Decode.

By Eric Johnson
Future Perfect
Little Caesars is the latest chain where you can try out meatless meatLittle Caesars is the latest chain where you can try out meatless meat
Future Perfect

You can try Impossible Foods’ new meatless sausage on Little Caesars’ pizzas.

By Kelsey Piper
Future Perfect
Morehouse’s student loan forgiveness is an incredibly useful economics experimentMorehouse’s student loan forgiveness is an incredibly useful economics experiment
Future Perfect

But it’s also a reminder of the limits of billionaire philanthropy.

By Dylan Matthews
Climate
These huge new wind turbines are a marvel. They’re also the future.These huge new wind turbines are a marvel. They’re also the future.
Climate

The latest model has blades longer than football fields.

By David Roberts
Future Perfect
A celebrity biohacker who sells DIY gene-editing kits is under investigationA celebrity biohacker who sells DIY gene-editing kits is under investigation
Future Perfect

Josiah Zayner, who once injected himself with CRISPR DNA, is accused of practicing medicine without a license.

By Sigal Samuel
Artificial intelligence can now make art. Artists, don’t panic.
Technology

From painting to poetry, music to math, we can view AI as a collaborator rather than a competitor.

By Sigal Samuel
Future Perfect
This economics journal only publishes results that are no big dealThis economics journal only publishes results that are no big deal
Future Perfect

Here’s how that might save science.

By Kelsey Piper
Future Perfect
San Francisco banned facial recognition tech. Here’s why other cities should too.San Francisco banned facial recognition tech. Here’s why other cities should too.
Future Perfect

Don’t want constant surveillance? We can fight back.

By Sigal Samuel
Future Perfect
The Sackler family made their fortune in opioids — and museums are rejecting their donationsThe Sackler family made their fortune in opioids — and museums are rejecting their donations
Future Perfect

The family that owns Purdue Pharma makes huge donations to the art world. The art world is thinking twice about taking their money.

By Kelsey Piper
Future Perfect
A poetry-writing AI has just been unveiled. It’s ... pretty good.A poetry-writing AI has just been unveiled. It’s ... pretty good.
Future Perfect

You can try out OpenAI’s controversial language AI for yourself.

By Kelsey Piper
Future Perfect
Alice Rivlin shaped every major policy debate of the past 40 yearsAlice Rivlin shaped every major policy debate of the past 40 years
Future Perfect

Rivlin, who died at age 88, created the Congressional Budget Office. Washington hasn’t been the same since.

By Dylan Matthews
Future Perfect
How bad prosecutors fuel America’s mass incarceration problemHow bad prosecutors fuel America’s mass incarceration problem
Future Perfect

Want to fix the criminal justice system? Start with overzealous prosecutors.

By Sean Illing
Technology
San Francisco’s facial recognition technology ban, explainedSan Francisco’s facial recognition technology ban, explained
Technology

The city’s ban on the technology could set a nationwide precedent.

By Shirin Ghaffary
Future Perfect
The cure for your next infection may come from sewageThe cure for your next infection may come from sewage
Future Perfect

As antibiotics become less effective, viruses found in dirty places may save our lives instead.

By Sigal Samuel
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Impossible Foods’ meatless burgers have made it a $2 billion companyImpossible Foods’ meatless burgers have made it a $2 billion company
Future Perfect

Following Beyond Meat’s IPO, Impossible Foods says it has raised $300 million in its latest funding round.

By Kelsey Piper