Future Perfect Archive
Archives for September 2019


If you take a minute to teach this AI, it’ll teach you something in turn.


For decades, Western sponsors picked foreign kids to help. What if kids picked them instead?


The fast-food chain is the latest to try out meatless meat offerings.


A philosophy argument about the critical importance of our present era.


The tech giant’s hope is that federal lawmakers will adopt much of its draft legislation.


This is the first study to show just how close soot can get to the fetus.


The agency issued a rare statement saying health officials in the East African country aren’t being transparent.


A new paper argues that, actually, winning the lottery totally does make you happy.


Using moral clarity to counter defeatism around the climate crisis.


A new release from OpenAI shows how complex behavior emerges.


Using public clean energy R&D to spur innovation is overlooked and underfunded.


Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman have a plan that could force foundations to pay out right away.


Here’s where to get the popular plant-based meat so you can cook it at home.


We’ve got a bad habit of paying attention to pandemics only when it’s too late.


It almost certainly won’t cause a pandemic, but the accident is a reminder that deadly pathogens aren’t as secure as we’d like them to be.