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Using films like “The Matrix,” a sociology course examines how factors beyond our control shape the world we live in − in fact and in an imagined future.
The future and its possibilities are something that you actively co-create with others. New research suggests that imagining together makes you closer and more connected to them in the here and now.
Science fiction can be thought of as a film negative of history – a back door into what used to worry people and what gave them hope.
Political scientists describe the age we are living in as “post-political”. This controversial concept refers to a noted lack of political alternatives on a global scale.
People who hold higher levels of hope will be less likely to experience symptoms of depression. Shared hopes are also important for expectations of national and international futures.
We thought after the worst of a global pandemic, young people’s outlook for the future might have improved. Our survey shows they’ve actually gotten worse.
A therapist shares advice for harnessing your stress over climate change and other environmental harms and putting it to work.
Many people think their destiny is written on the stars. It is not.
There may be humans who look more or less like us in the year million, but they won’t be alone.
Your great grandchildren are powerless in today’s society, but the things we do now influence them, for better or worse. What happens when we consider them while we make decisions today?
Moving around cities will change in the future as new technologies like self-driving cars gain wider adoption. Science fiction can give us a glimpse into these futures.
Your background and life experiences seep into the mind’s eye, quietly shaping whether you believe your dreams can come true.
What might our future look like? Together, these speculative fiction stories offer a First Nations response to this burning question.
A new ‘protein roadmap’ produced by CSIRO reveals foods set to fill fridges by 2030 as health, environmental and ethical concerns push consumers away from meat.
We’ll probably be less aggressive and more agreeable, but have smaller brains – a bit like a Golden Retriever, we’ll be friendly, but maybe not that interesting or bright.
Afrofuturist’s work is rooted in the desire to transform the present for Black people. To do so, they imagine a reality in which Black people are the agents of their own story, countering histories that discount and dismiss them.
The Earth is constantly changing in natural ways, but most of those changes are very slow. Humans are speeding up other changes with global warming.
Now is not the time for rocket men to abandon spaceship Earth.
What the world can learn from Wales, the first place where sustainability is the organising principle of government, as well as what Wales is learning from the world about sustainability.
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James Martin Research Fellow, Future of Humanity Institute & Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford
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Senior Lecturer in Film Studies, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Professor of Sociology, Texas A&M University
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Professor of Urban Futures, University of Leeds
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Professor of International Security, University of Bath
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Associate Dean International and Engagement, Faculty of Design Architecture and Building, University of Technology Sydney
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Research fellow, University of the Arts London
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University of Cape Town
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Professor of English, University of Birmingham
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Senior Academic General Practitioner, Queen's University Belfast
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Professor of Strategic Management, University of Toronto
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Senior Lecturer, School of Humanities Arts and Social Sciences, University of New England
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Honorary Research Fellow in Archaeology, University of Leicester
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Senior Lecturer in English, University of Liverpool
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Professor of Labour and Globalisation, University of Hertfordshire
