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Future Tense Fiction: Stories of Tomorrow

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 >>

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The Weight of Light: A Collection of Solar Futures

Our first collection of solar futures, The Weight of Light, puts comparative design at the heart of the solar project. What if we build big? What if we build small? What if we build solar in cities? What if we build solar in rural hinterlands? These and a host of other design variables (the full list includes scale, geography, aesthetics, abundance, ownership, governance, storage, supply chains, and waste) informed a tour of diverse futures in captivating stories by Cat Rambo, Corey S. Pressman, Andrew Dana Hudson, and Brenda Cooper, compelling artwork, and reflective essays by leading photovoltaics researchers from the Quantum Energy and Sustainable Solar Technologies Engineering Research Center and the School for the Future of Innovation and Society. Just how different might solar-powered futures be?

Center for Science and the Imagination and Open Technology Institute Launch “AI Policy Futures”

by Joey Eschrich

“Science fiction stories exert a powerful influence on how we think about technology and the future. But if we spend all of our time looking over our shoulders for killer robots, that means we are not looking ahead to discern the outcomes we might actually want.”

Cover for Visions, Ventures, Escape Velocities: A collection of space Futures. Edited by Ed Finn and Joey Eschrich. Photo of the inside of a futuristic space station. A ship and planet can be seen outside the window. Get the Book

Visions, Ventures, Escape Velocities: A Collection of Space Futures

Why should we go to space? To learn more about the universe and our place in it? To extract resources and conduct commerce? To demonstrate national primacy and technological prowess? To live and thrive in radically different kinds of human communities? Visions, Ventures, Escape Velocities takes on the challenge of imagining new stories at the intersection of public and private—narratives that use the economic and social history of exploration, as well as current technical and scientific research, to inform scenarios for the future of the “new space” era.