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Journey into a future shaped by creativity, critical thought, and secular habits of mind. Help shape what’s next!

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Gillian Broaddus
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To survive, you need people. What if you can't trust them?

As we head into a likely year of multiple overlapping crises, our most important resource is lying in shreds.

ChatGPT
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Looking back at 2025: An AI fever dream

The editors at OnlySky asked ChatGPT to imagine looking back at 2025 after it happens, combining known and likely factors with plausible black swans. This is the unedited result.

Dale McGowan
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The never-ending appeal of the magic man

Complex problems call for complex solutions. Oh well.

Tom Krattenmaker
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Don't ditch democracy to save the planet. Make it better

Before you envy China for their recent climate seriousness, consider the advantages of democratic decision making.

Phil Zuckerman
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Reducing crime in the coming years is easy—and we actually know how

Will the future include more or less violent crime? It depends on whether we rely on prayer, as many politicians are suggesting, or apply proven solutions.

Adam Lee
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The Splinternet: The balkanized future of cyberspace

Just when we are the most connected we've ever been, we're choosing to disconnect.

Dale McGowan
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How movies get our future wrong—and right

There's a lot we can't know about the future. But films should at least include the things we know for sure.

M L Clark
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Is AI art causing future shock or age-old economic anxiety?

The tech isn’t the problem. Our civic failure to grow along with it is.

Adam Lee
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Democracies fall. So do dictatorships.

The evidence is all around.

Dale McGowan
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The Shrinkening

For all the energy I put in, my input at the national level has come to nothing. What if I start thinking locally?

Lisa Jarrington
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What the movie Wicked can teach us about resisting Trump

What can the story of a con man, scapegoats, and a resistance possibly have to say about our future?

Bruce Ledewitz
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The rehabilitation of truth

You cannot build a secular civilization into the future without a kind of faith.