Future Perfect Archive
Archives for February 2024
Space debris is a huge problem, but we can fix it.
The Gemini image generator isn’t just suffering from a technical problem, but from a philosophical one.
There’s a stalemate over stopping future pandemics — and it comes down to money.
Factory farms are now so big that we need a new word for them.
Meet Direct File, the federal government’s TurboTax alternative. It’s not perfect, but it’s a start.
The unhelpful, distracting debate about whether oat milk is bad for you totally misses the point.
If you want to know the future of OpenAI’s latest tool, take a look at Midjourney and DALL-E 2.
A new state bill aims to protect us from the most powerful and dangerous AI models.
How the US is preparing to fight — and win — a war in space
What the Samotsvety group can teach us about predicting the future.
States prepare to use Medicaid for rental assistance for the first time.
Car crashes are killing too many young Africans like Kelvin Kiptum.
Opioid addiction doesn’t get as many headlines as it used to, but the crisis is as bad as ever. It doesn’t have to be.
Local governments are trying a new way to address the housing crisis.
The flow of new money and interest into core EA fields like AI safety poses a challenge to a movement that was used to being small.