Future Perfect
Finding the best ways to do good. Check out our 2024 Future Perfect list, which presents the 50 thinkers, scientists, activists, and scholars who are working to build a more positive future.
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A groundbreaking study suggests your farmed shrimp and salmon might have a much bigger environmental toll than previously thought.
The world really is getting better. So why don’t people believe it?
A new book explores the world of tax havens and techno-utopias, and asks if they can be used for good.
Animal models of autism haven’t helped autistic people enough. So why do scientists still use them?
My faith gave me my moral values. I want my child to have those — without all the stuff I don’t believe in.
AI is here to stay and the Nobels know it.
Did they actually figure out why nations fail?
The 11 policies that could help the cities of the future.
The human mind is designed to predict, but uncertainty helps us thrive.
The public did not consent to artificial general intelligence.
In Sonoma County and Denver, activists are putting animal welfare on the ballot.
Billions of dollars later, neuroscientists are still struggling to address the mental health crisis.
Rwandan public health officials have a strategy that could help prevent further outbreaks.
I don’t know what I owe my newfound relative.
Whippets on TikTok are just a re-run of inhaling nitrous on stage in the 1800s.
New brain stimulation techniques could help scientists understand how meditation changes the mind.
1.5 million people die from lead exposure a year. This new global partnership could change that.
Factory farming makes hurricanes more dangerous, disgusting, and expensive.
Dr. Gregory Berns on his surprising research on the emotional lives of dogs and cows.
Bacteria-eating viruses might be able to fight antibiotic resistance where new treatments are most needed.
The Georgia chemical plant fire, explained.
SB 1047 would have been a landmark in AI safety. Gavin Newsom’s veto is a major setback in the fight against AI risk
“If humans are so smart, why are we so stupid?”
Rich people debate washing machines for fun. But for billions of poor people, the debate really matters.
The maker of ChatGPT promised to share its profits with the public. But Sam Altman just sold you out.
The VP candidate loves to snuggle baby animals. He’s giving factory farming a progressive sheen.
On September 26, 1983, Stanislav Petrov saved the world.
How diseases like cancer and diabetes are growing, explained in four charts.
The quest to give effectively feels like it’s turning me into an cold-hearted jerk.
OpenAI’s new ChatGPT is better than ever — and more dangerous.
The billionaire philanthropist talks about how the fight for global health lost steam — and how to get it back.
Kidney donors save lives. Why aren’t we compensated for it?
New research sheds light on changing patterns of US giving and volunteering.
A new study argues the long-run benefits outweigh the costs nearly 10 to 1.
Cruelty is built into the pork industry — but it could at least try to prevent fires.
It’s irrational to be cynical, so why is it becoming more prevalent?
The safety paradox at the heart of OpenAI’s “Strawberry” model.
Scientists are trapped in an endless loop of grant applications. How can we set them free?
Factory-built housing, ADUs, and community land trusts — all at once.
Why the new luxury is flip phones and vinyl LPs