The Power of Play: A Reading List A crash course on how fun and leisure can change the world

    How to Dress for Ultimate Privacy In the age of surveillance, achieving invisibility through fashion isn’t a futuristic idea–it’s already possible.

    Batteries Not Excluded The supercomputer in your pocket and your next car rely on them–so what will we do if we run out of lithium?

    The Way We Work: A Reading List A crash course in new developments in employment and labor.

    The Roots of an Epidemic From apartheid labor policies to everyday sexism, socio-political issues influence the spread of TB disease and the effectiveness of health responses. To tackle the epidemic, we need systemic changes.

    Where We Live and How We Die What a year of death looks like around the world.

    Fowl Plague

    Pandemics have threatened humanity in the past–and avian influenza may well be the next one due.
    Duncan Geere
    Aug 4, 2017

    Isla del Encanto

    Puerto Ricans have always found opportunity in the limits placed upon them. Exploring the island’s agricultural future–from community gardens to research hubs, bakers to growers to distillers.
    Alicia Kennedy
    Apr 16, 2019

    The ID Question

    Who decides who you are? You, or the world around you?
    Anjali Ramachandran
    Nov 22, 2017

    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.

    How We Learn: A Reading List

    A crash course on the future of education
    How We Get To Next
    Dec 5, 2016 5 min read

    Would You Like to Be Uploaded to a Computer When You Die?

    Rattling around inside a hard drive doesn’t sound like an awful lot of fun–but then, neither does death.
    Dan Sung
    Oct 25, 2016 10 min read

    Who’s to Blame When a Therapy Bot Goes Wrong?

    Deploying bots in a medical setting demands a whole new ethical framework.
    Natalie Kane
    May 19, 2016 5 min read