On Jan. 16 at 3 p.m. ET, join Future Tense, ASU CSI, and ClimateWorks Foundation for a conversation with Kim Stanley Robinson, Vandana Singh, Benjamin Ong, Ed Finn, LibiaBrenda ☕, and Jason Anderson.

We'll be discussing how to imagine—and chart the path toward—positive climate

A new series of essays from Future Tense, written mostly by currently and formerly incarcerated people, looks at how technology is changing what it means to be in prison. slate.com/tag/time-online

Today, Future Tense is launching Time, Online, a new package on how tech is changing prison as we know it.

slate.com/tag/time-online

Científicos de todo el mundo están trabajando en para conseguir que el plástico que utilizamos sea menos perjudicial. Por Anna Gibbs.

* Texto producido en colaboración con Future Tense.
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honored to have contributed to this important new Future Tense series on a little-understood segment of the tech industry—the way it operates for people behind bars. I wrote about exploitative nature of high-cost prison phone calls and messages: slate.com/technology/202…

“If that gadget is going to be your version of a Higher Power as you conceive of it, go ahead.” writes Julián Herbert. Read a new story about A.I., addiction, and the trap of constant feedback for Future Tense in collaboration with ASU CSI: slate.com/technology/202…

Imaginar enemigos devoradores de humanos puede ayudar a la preparación para catástrofes más cercanas. Por Athena Aktipis y Coltan Scrivner.
*Texto producido en colaboración con Future Tense.
letraslibres.com/ciencia-tecnol…

A new startup is dreaming about transforming your dreams. But don’t lower your eyelids quite yet. slate.com/technology/202…

When hackers swindled Las Vegas, they walked away with one of the biggest ransom payments in history.

It was a striking reminder that just because organizations have lots of money doesn’t mean they have lots of cybersecurity. slate.com/technology/202…

The first known cat species lived 30 million years ago and gave rise to lions, cheetahs, and saber-toothed cats. Could today's domestic cat spawn the alpha predators of the future?
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Where does the U.S. government post court documents and information about foreign surveillance? On Tumblr, of course.
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As your tires wear down, tiny chunks of chemical compounds pollute the surrounding area and cause ecological damage. Regulators—and a reluctant industry—are finally starting to deal with it.
slate.com/technology/202…

There’s an existential threat to A.I. working its way through the courts. slate.com/technology/202…

I'm totally blind. A.I. is helping me rediscover the world. slate.com/technology/202…

wrote about Elon Musk's Grok A.I. tool, the inspiration it purportedly takes from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, and how this latest chatbot demonstrates the extent to which Musk and others like him misunderstand what Douglas Adams was all about: slate.com/technology/202…

How do you prepare a community for disaster? Try imagining the zombie apocalypse. 🪦🧟👻🎃

Today at 4 p.m. ET, Athena Aktipis and Coltan Scrivner are chatting with Future Tense and ASU CSI about sci-fi-ing our thought processes.

Join us online ⤵️ newamerica.org/future-tense/e…

How can imagining the zombie apocalypse help our communities prepare for future risks? In more ways than you might think.

We'll be talking with Athena Aktipis and Coltan Scrivner from ASU CSI to walk through them—register below to join us on Monday. events.newamerica.org/whatzombiescan…