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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.
An evolutionary psychologist, politics expert and sustainability scientist discuss the potential for humanity to plan for the long term future.
Communal living: enabling people to strive for a better, more sustainable lifestyle.
Feel like time has come to a standstill? The coronavirus crisis has prompted us to be more creative with our relations to time.
An update of 50-year-old regulations has kickstarted research into the next generation of rockets. Powered by nuclear fission, these new systems could be the key to faster, safer exploration of space.
We can lock in these changes to build sustainable cities out of the coronavirus crisis – here’s how.
We could use this crisis to rebuild, produce something better and more humane. But we may slide into something worse.
Some people are growing weary with romantic and dystopian visions of the future. Instead, our focus is on now.
Scores of jobs could be affected by the fourth industrial revolution – and not enough is being done to guard against this.
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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 Strategic Management, University of Toronto
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Director, Dunlap Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Toronto
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Associate Dean International and Engagement, Faculty of Design Architecture and Building, University of Technology Sydney
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Senior Lecturer, Sociology, La Trobe University
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Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Religion Studies, University of North Texas
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Professor of Organisational Behaviour, Bayes Business School, City, University of London
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Professor and Director, Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience, Coventry University
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Australia’s Chief Scientist, Office of the Chief Scientist
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Professor of Economics, Lancaster University
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Professor of Urban Studies, University of Glasgow
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Senior Lecturer, School of Humanities Arts and Social Sciences, University of New England
