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The Ancient Assyrian Who Invented Sci-Fi

Why flying spacecrafts, alien worlds, and interplanetary rivalries are tales stretching back millennia, rather than centuries.

Casper Skovgaard Petersen

December 1, 2023

To Boozy Futures

How feeling happy and unconcerned about tomorrow pushes civilisation forwards.

August Leo Liljenberg

November 23, 2023

Eating & Techno-Pleasures

Technology’s convergence with eating and sex could push both into strange and uncharted territory.

November 17, 2023

What Gaming Could Be

From VR to crypto and AR to AI – how might emerging technologies intersect with the human desire for play?

November 10, 2023

WATCH THE SEMINAR: Safeguarding Tomorrow

Head of Publications Casper Skovgaard Petersen is joined by Future Generations Commissioner for Wales, Sophie Howe, and Associate Professor of conservation biology at the University of Hong Kong, Dr Alice Hughes, for a conversation about the practicalities of implementing the interests of future generations into policymaking, as well as a critique of the supposed looming threat of ‘overpopulation’ amid biodiversity decline and climate change.

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Bored of the Future?

How philosophers and psychologists have tried to answer the question of whether to embrace or resist the mundane.

Casper Skovgaard Petersen

November 2, 2023

Eske Willerslev is Building a Genomic Time Machine

The renowned evolutionary biologist explains why the future of food needs to be rooted in the ancient past.

Emilie Balk-Møller

October 23, 2023

Freedom From Work

Will the notion of work as something inherently virtuous persist as we edge towards a future beyond labour?

October 10, 2023