A cultural engine for thoughtful optimism
Future Tense is a partnership between ASU, the New America Foundation and Slate magazine to explore emerging technologies and their transformative effects on society and public policy. Future Tense hosts events and public conversations, and publishes original content from policymakers, scientists, humanists and journalists, including many ASU scholars, on Slate
Join us to celebrate the launch of Future Tense Fiction: Stories of Tomorrow, a new anthology of science fiction from Future Tense, with award-winning fiction authors Annalee Newitz, Meg Elison, and Hannu Rajaniemi, and Torie Bosch, editor of the Future Tense channel at Slate. We’ll present […]
Join us to celebrate the launch of Future Tense Fiction: Stories of Tomorrow, a new anthology of science fiction from Future Tense, with award-winning fiction authors Paolo Bacigalupi and Maureen F. McHugh, ASU sports historian Victoria Jackson, and Diana M. Bowman, scholar of law and technology. […]
An anthology of mind-bending science fiction short stories by some of the top authors in the field, drawn from our Future Tense Fiction project. How will living with scientific upheaval and technological transformation change the world–and us? Forthcoming in October from Unnamed Press >>
Maria Haskins
Barnes & Noble Sci-Fi and Fantasy Blog
A new short story by the author of Marvel’s Black Panther: Long Live the King, Nnedi Okorafor.
A new short story from the author of the Nebula Award–winning All the Birds in the Sky, Charlie Jane Anders.
Stubbornness may be the defining characteristic of the moment we’re in. People seem increasingly reluctant to listen to other points of view or deviate from their tribe. So how can we get people to reconsider long-held—but perhaps poorly thought through—beliefs? In this informal workshop, Torie Bosch, […]
By Joey Eschrich and Ed Finn
Future Tense – Slate
Ed Finn
Slate – Future Tense
RSVP here >> Algorithms tell us what to read, where to go, and whom to date…but do we really understand them? It’s easy to think of algorithms as magical beings, delivering purely objective, admirably efficient, and sometimes startlingly insightful solutions to our everyday problems, but in […]
“She’d seen the coat before in this moment, exiting this train, here. Every face in the crowd looked somehow familiar.”
Read the full story on Slate.com
Joey Eschrich
Slate – Future Tense
