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Future Perfect

Future Perfect

Finding the best ways to do good.

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Qubit by qubit, the quantum computers of tomorrow are coming into being

By Bryan Walsh

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Our love of orcas is making them miserable

By Tove K. Danovich

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Future Perfect, explained

By Dylan Matthews

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By Vox Staff

The first results from the world’s biggest basic income experiment

By Dylan Matthews

Scaling slaughter-free meat is hard. Here’s one way to make it easier.

By Julieta Cardenas

Why psychedelics produce some of the most meaningful experiences in people’s lives

By Oshan Jarow

There’s less meat at this year’s climate talks. But there’s plenty of bull.

By Kenny Torrella

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The 2023 Future Perfect 50

The thinkers, activists, and scholars working on solutions to today’s (and tomorrow’s) biggest problems.

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How we selected the Future Perfect 50 list

By Izzie Ramirez
Black-footed ferrets!

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The militarized AI risk that’s bigger than “killer robots”

By Jeffrey Lewis

I give 10 percent of my income to charity. You should, too.

By Dylan Matthews

Want to fight climate change effectively? Here’s where to donate your money.

By Sigal Samuel and Rachel DuRose

How to fit volunteering into a hectic schedule

By Rachel DuRose

Don’t wait: The case for giving sooner rather than later

By Kelsey Piper

Want to help animals? Here’s where to donate your money.

By Sigal Samuel and Kenny Torrella

Want to donate to charity? Here are 10 guidelines for giving effectively.

By Dylan Matthews and Sigal Samuel
Hands in black plastic gloves use a chef’s knife to cut a piece of cooked chicken on a board.

The Future of Meat

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Giving Tuesday, explained

By Kelsey Piper

Why it’s important to remember that AI isn’t human

By Raphaël Millière and Charles Rathkopf

OpenAI’s board may have been right to fire Sam Altman — and to rehire him, too

By Sigal Samuel

How America broke the turkey

By Kenny Torrella

What our brain chemistry says about free will

By Sean Illing

We’ve been fighting poverty all wrong

By Oshan Jarow

The US is normalizing the cruelest mass killing method to stop bird flu

By Marina Bolotnikova

One stat that could spur a compromise on the child tax credit

By Dylan Matthews

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It’s time to break up with fast fashion

By Izzie Ramirez

Psychedelics can have enormous benefits, but the risks shouldn’t be ignored

By Oshan Jarow

You’re more likely to go to prison for exposing animal cruelty than for committing it

By Marina Bolotnikova

Why stop at the four-day workweek?

By Oshan Jarow

The world’s largest child displacement crisis is in Sudan

By Bryan Walsh

Can a social media “pigfluencer” turn people off bacon?

By Kenny Torrella

Israel’s crackdown on dissent will only hurt it

By Sigal Samuel

Why Norway — the poster child for electric cars — is having second thoughts

By David Zipper

I’m getting malaria to help eradicate it (and you can too)

By Dylan Matthews

Why I let an AI chatbot train on my book

By Bryan Walsh

The World Bank can bring the world’s poor into the clean energy revolution

By Dylan Matthews

This land isn’t for you or me. It’s for the meat industry.

By Kenny Torrella

How AI will shape our children’s future

By Kelsey Piper

A surprisingly radical proposal: Make people happier — not just wealthier and healthier

By Sigal Samuel

Why so much is going wrong at the same time

By Thomas Homer-Dixon