The ID Question

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

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

A Noxious Problem

Smog in cities and smoke in the home cause a huge range of short- and long-term health conditions. Why is the world’s biggest public health crisis only getting worse?
How We Get To Next

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.

Refugee Innovation

Technology that’s changing the lives of people fleeing persecution.
Duncan Geere
1 min read

I Tried Dieting With a Chatbot. I Hated It.

“Here I am, inside a chat app, with no agency to ask the most basic questions about how the product works.”
Abigail Hartstone
10 min read

My New Job in an Eco-Village on a Volcano

If we’re looking for a future where we reinvent the way we work, integrate our activities into the natural world, and prioritize healthy human development, then eco-villages, in many senses, can be a model for our “neighborhoods of the future.”
Gabriel Abraham Garrett
8 min read