by bfarabaugh | Jun 4, 2021 | climate, nuclear, policy, risk, solutions
Securing Humanity’s Future: Reorienting U.S. Policy to Address Existential Risks By Bryce Farabaugh Humanity in the 21st century is poised to face an unprecedented number of risks that previous generations did not have to face, and its ability to address these risks...
by abosko | Jun 4, 2021 | climate, nuclear, solutions
A quote from Oppenheimer, an architect of the first atomic bomb. “At precisely 5:29 A.M. on July 16, 1945, a bright flash sharply pierced the early New Mexico morning. As a mushroom cloud rose from the resulting crater, those at base camp ten miles away realized...
by srmichel | Jun 3, 2021 | climate, nuclear, salience, solutions
We all started as stardust. Our beginnings were mystical and full of hope. Now, what happens as we approach doom? These existential threats are all of a result of human actions. Are we smart enough to fix our own mistakes before it is too late? Or are we doomed...
by ydeng2 | Jun 3, 2021 | climate, cyber, nuclear, risk
Painting by Paul Ranson, Apple Tree with Red Fruit, Museum of Fine Arts, Huston. (1) Josh pushed Pedro and woke him up from an afternoon nap. He pointed his left index finger to the screen projector and showed Pedro the new mind map he just finished. Ten years ago,...
by tgranzow | Jun 3, 2021 | climate, nuclear, risk, solutions
Recipes for Disaster is the beginner’s survival guide to coping with the end of the world. We recognize that no matter how the world ends, humans will need to eat to survive. In this first volume, which addresses the culinary constraints placed upon humanity in the...
by starmz | May 20, 2021 | bio, climate, cyber, emerging, framing, nuclear, policy, risk, salience, solutions
I created a piece of hypertext fiction, tentatively titled Will We Flourish? A Choose-Our-Shared-Future. (click to read!) Hypertext fiction allows the reader to affect the narrative they are reading, similar to choose-your-own-adventure gamebooks but with little to no...
