The Future Perfect 50
Introducing the Future Perfect 50 — the scientists, thinkers, scholars, writers, and activists working on solutions to today’s (and tomorrow’s) biggest problems. Check out the 2024 list here.
Welcome to our third annual celebration of the thinkers, innovators, and changemakers who are working to make the future a better place.
Welcome to our third annual celebration of the thinkers, innovators, and changemakers who are working to make the future a better place.
Tuberculosis is still the world’s top killer. The author has a plan to fight back.
From Gaza to Asheville to Valencia, the celebrity chef understands
The “How Infrastructure Works” author wants us to envision achievable utopias.
The latest in The Future Perfect 50
Whatever you do, don’t call the Black in Neuro founder “resilient.”
Your brain needs new rights. He’s fighting to secure them.
AI is not a “stochastic parrot,” It’s a mirror, says the philosopher.
How Rune-Christoffer Dragsdahl got the country to launch an impressive vegetarian experiment.
The What If We Get It Right? author rises to the challenge.
The “Oppenheimer” director built his career on making audiences confront humanity’s darkest possibilities.
That’s what makes her so refreshing.
Jones expanded the United States’ global development reach. Now she’s fighting for a healthier climate.
The World Mosquito Fund aims to end many mosquito-borne illnesses.
Nyandoro’s program takes aim at generational poverty in Jackson, Mississippi.
Named after her daughter, the Zuri Nzilani Foundation hopes to end maternal mortality.
Grace argues AI researchers should slow down. They’re starting to agree with her.
The tangled nature of climate change and colonialism means justice has to account for both.
Inspired by “seventh-generation decision-making,” Saijo is looking to the future.
The CEO of the Council on Strategic Risks wants us to be better prepared for overlapping existential risks.
The physicist and co-founder of the QBism theory is shaking up his field.
The Climate Optimism author believes focusing on victories can engender more positive action.
Dolen hopes “critical periods” created by psychedelics can help stroke patients.
Meet the scientist democratizing the cell-cultivated meat sector and training its next generation of researchers.
Chile’s minister for the environment hopes to bring science, social equality, and decarbonization together.
The US veterinary profession props up factory farm cruelty. A coalition of vets is fighting to change that.
For the APEX Advocacy founder, moral consistency means championing the rights of all.
The economist aims to kickstart the slumping rate of progress by reforming the science of science.
The Ethiopian American plant geneticist designed better sorghum — saving thousands, if not millions, of lives.
High-tech methods of chemical testing are helping get animals out of labs.
A reliable quantum computer system could unleash truly amazing technological progress, as long as the engineers can get it to work.
The co-founders and co-CEOs of the Institute for Progress want to kick-start America’s innovation engine.
If you’re going to break the law in order to change it, you need a good lawyer.
The lawyer helped spearhead California’s Prop 12, one of the most effective cage laws in the country.
As editor of BMJ Global Health, Abimbola aims to decentralize global health research.
The technologist and author is providing a guide to a world changing at an exponential rate
Ritchie believes we can be the first generation to build a sustainable world.
At just 17, Butler is drawing attention to the connections between animal rights and the climate crisis.
Donti is showing how machine learning can be a powerful ally to address the climate crisis.
Fish are often overlooked in animal welfare debates. Lopez is trying to change that.
How Germany’s meat-centric culture is becoming more humane — and vegan-friendly.
Reaching net-zero emissions requires a historic overhaul of America’s infrastructure. Jenkins is mapping the way.
Carhart-Harris shows how psychedelics can shed light on the nature of consciousness, and treat mental illness.
Whittaker, the president of Signal, is also asking hard questions about artificial intelligence.
It can be hard to start a nonprofit. Savoie and Sarek are trying to make it easier.