The ID Question

Who decides who you are? You, or the world around you?
Anjali Ramachandran

A Visual History of the Future

Decades ago, artists’ imaginings formed high expectations about the world to come. Were these just fantasies–or was it the work of pioneers whose visions of the future actually helped to shape it?
Darren Garrett

Disability Futures

We can’t think about the future-of health, of technology, of community-without centering disability; it cuts across every other kind of experience. Disability is central to all of our lives.
Kenny Fries

Beats: Space

Space is where we project our dreams–and our nightmares–of the future.

Beats: Food

Food structures our day, and food systems shape our world

Beats: Disability

“Disable” is an active verb, and disability describes the social and environmental barriers that prevent access just as much as an individual body’s physical reality.

Beats: Health

Access to health care is as much a matter of public policy as it is the size of a person’s pocketbook; within a doctor’s office, many factors affect the quality of treatment.

A Black Female Engineer & Her Afrofuturist City

To change the world, build it differently.
Natalie-Claire Luwisha
5 min read

Billions of Kids Will Use This $1-dollar Paper Microscope

Getting science into the hands of children across the world.
Charles Q. Choi
1 min read

Hi, Can I Help You?

Domestic robots can be creepy–but what if they were more like pets?
Susan Cox-Smith
4 min read