It’s boom times for doom times, but from artificial intelligence to climate change to food supplies, there’s plenty of reason to be optimistic that the future will be better — if we make it so.
Pumping the brakes on artificial intelligence could be the best thing we ever do for humanity. Part of Against Doomerism from The Highlight, Vox’s home for ambitious stories that explain our world. “Computers need to be accountable to machines,” a top Microsoft executive told a roomful of reporters in …
The necessity of progress. Part of Against Doomerism from The Highlight, Vox’s home for ambitious stories that explain our world. If I wanted to convince you of the reality of human progress, of the fact that we as a species have advanced materially, morally, and politically over our time on this …
Climate pessimism dooms us to a terrible future. Complacent optimism is no better. Part of Against Doomerism from The Highlight, Vox’s home for ambitious stories that explain our world. We environmentalists spend our lives thinking about ways the world will end. There’s nowhere that I see doomer culture …
We can break the cycle of negativity bias in the media and get a more balanced view of the world. Part of Against Doomerism from The Highlight, Vox’s home for ambitious stories that explain our world. In Broadcast News, the movie that made me want to be a journalist, the protagonist Jane Craig (Holly …
The Netherlands’ hyper-efficient food system is both a triumph and a cautionary tale. Part of Against Doomerism from The Highlight, Vox’s home for ambitious stories that explain our world. An hour north of Amsterdam, some of the world’s largest seed conglomerates — the first step in a long journey that …
What the Medicine Wheel, an indigenous American model of time, shows about apocalypse. Part of Against Doomerism from The Highlight, Vox’s home for ambitious stories that explain our world. In the dead of winter of late 2020 in the city of Shikaakwa, on the frozen shores of Ininwewi-gichigami, there is …
