Future Tense
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

Science Fiction/Real Policy Book Club: All Systems Red by Martha Wells (Online)
Science fiction can have real policy impacts, and comes rife with real-life commentary. For the next gathering of our Science Fiction/Real Policy Book Club, we have selected All Systems Red

Science Fiction/Real Policy Book Club: Infomocracy by Malka Older (Online)
Science fiction can have real policy impacts, and comes rife with real-life commentary. For the third gathering of our Science Fiction/Real Policy Book Club, we have selected Malka Older’s novel

Neal Stephenson, Termination Shock (Online)
With his string of bestselling novels, Neal Stephenson has carved out a space at the forefront of contemporary fiction, exploring and shaping our cultural imaginary about the future and how

Governing for the Future (Online)
How do we govern for the long haul? Humans are manipulating the planet in ways that will play out for centuries, but our decision-making is often myopic and localized. The

Stories of Algorithmic Justice (Online)
We often cling to the idea that artificially intelligent systems are neutral arbiters, despite knowing that these systems can only be as good as the parameters and data sets that

Future Tense Fiction: Double Spiral
By Marcy Kelly

Future Tense Fiction: What the Dead Man Said
By Chinelo Onwualu

Future Tense Fiction: Zero in Babel
By E. Lily Yu

Future Tense Fiction: Space Leek
By Chen Qiufan

Future Tense Fiction: No Moon and Flat Calm
by Elizabeth Bear

Future Tense Fiction: The Song Between Worlds
By Indrapramit Das

The Arisen
by Louisa Hall

Mpendulo: The Answer
By Nosipho Dumisa

Thoughts and Prayers
by Ken Liu

This is the pop culture that helped us survive 2018
The Verge

When Robot and Crow Saved East St. Louis
by Annalee Newitz