FUTURES
FUTURES
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This column starts with a deceptively simple question being asked to interesting people about the future:
What are you most excited about and most afraid of for the future, and why?
The Future Speaks: A Scientist and an Artist Have a Baby and Name Her Futura
By David Ewing Duncan
January 9, 2025
A New Year’s Chat with Futura, Age 14 Days—and Her Parents, Biotech Entrepreneur Riccardo Sabatini and Artist Olivia Ives-Flores | And from my archives"Teddy Bear Bot" Talking to Robots (Dutton 2019).
Sussing the Future at XPRIZE (Part1)—with Neil deGrass Tyson, Peter Diamandis, Jennifer Garrison, Daniel Kraft, and Erik Lindbergh
By David Ewing Duncan
December 11, 2024
The future of AI, space, women’s health, longevity, wisdom, and climate change: voices from the XPRIZE summit in Malibu » Also from my Archives: “Thomas Jefferson Would Work for GoogleX”.
As We Vote, do the Rhythms of Life Seem… Off? Can We Restore a Steady Beat?
By David Ewing Duncan
November 5, 2024
Politics and the Heart. My essay on how modern life—including politics—impacts our hearts, literally and metaphorically | Plus: “Growing Heart Cells Just for Me" | Video: “Playing Mambo with My Heart”.
The Biophysicist, the Billionaire, and the Quest to Cure Disease—an Update
By David Ewing Duncan
September 19, 2024
Mark Zuckerberg & Priscilla Chan tapped Stanford's Steve Quake to help eradicate disease by 2100. How's it going? Also: The Future of Health (report); Zuckerberg at age 22: a 2006 interview (podcast).
Sylvia Earle: Defender of Oceans—on Her Life, Climate Change, Health, and the Future
By David Ewing Duncan
August 26, 2024
An essay and Q&A; also my Vanity Fair essay on how climate change impacts the Ocean microbiome; diving with my son in Belize for Outside; and my UN talk on radical stewardship.
A Pioneer of Ketamine Psychotherapy on Psychedelics’ Future
By David Ewing Duncan
July 12, 2024
An interview with psychiatrist Phil Wolfson; also 2 Vanity Fair essays on psychedelics; plus, a video of me giving a talk and a reading of “Stolen Words: COVID, Ketamine, and Me”.
The 1000 Faces of George Church
By David Ewing Duncan
June 28, 2024
He's Everywhere—a geneticist whose science fiction visions of the future tend to become real | Plus, from my archives a Church profile (NYTimes); and how to make a synthetic human (Wired); and more.
Opera Legend Renée Fleming on What Makes Our Minds Sing
By David Ewing Duncan
May 21, 2024
Music and the Brain Issue, Part 1: plus a Q&A with Fleming and a review of her new book; a video and discount on mind-music app Spiritune; and a Tech Review article on “DNA and Music” from my archive.
You Say You Want a (Healthcare) Revolution?
By David Ewing Duncan
March 8, 2024
Susannah Fox wants to take back healthcare for patients in her new book, Rebel Health—a review and Q&A with the author.
When the Future Was Fab
By David Ewing Duncan
February 13, 2024
Kevin Kelly is known by millions as an oracle of optimism. But what he really believes is far more interesting and critical for our times, and for the future.
A Paraplegic Walks into the Future
By David Ewing Duncan
Coming Soon
Hybrid robot-humans are here: assisting the disabled and raising the possibility of exoskeleton enhancement for everyone.
Look for the column coming out every few days.