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
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 few concerted global responses to the climate crisis we have been able to muster are torturously […]
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 they are trained with—and that those inputs are saturated with pre-existing biases, blind spots, and historical […]
By Marcy Kelly
By Chinelo Onwualu
By E. Lily Yu
By Chen Qiufan
by Elizabeth Bear
By Indrapramit Das
by Louisa Hall
By Nosipho Dumisa
by Ken Liu
by Annalee Newitz
