Future Perfect

Vox's Future Perfect explores provocative ideas with the potential to radically improve the world. We tackle big questions about the most effective ways to save lives, fight global warming, and end world poverty to create a more perfect future.

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13 hours ago
Europe might abandon its animal welfare revolution
Vox - Kenny Torrella
The EU could backslide on its cage-free farming ban and more. Billions of animals hang in the balance. Europe was on the cusp of an animal welfare revolution. In the summer of 2021, European Union policymakers promised to phase out cages for 300 million farmed pigs, egg-laying hens, rabbits, and …
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2 days ago
Human progress has come at the expense of animals. It doesn’t have to.
Vox - Bryan Walsh
Add in the extreme suffering of tens of billions of farmed animals, and suddenly the world looks like a much darker place. If there’s one idea that forms the foundation of Future Perfect, it’s this: The human present is better than the past, and barring catastrophe, we can likely expect the future …
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3 days ago
40 years ago today, one man saved us from world-ending nuclear war
Vox - Dylan Matthews
On September 26, 1983, Stanislav Petrov saved the world. On September 26, 1983, the planet came terrifyingly close to a nuclear holocaust. The Soviet Union’s missile attack early warning system displayed, in large red letters, the word “LAUNCH”; a computer screen stated to the officer on duty, Soviet …
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The $1 billion gamble to ensure AI doesn’t destroy humanity
Vox - Dylan Matthews
The founders of Anthropic quit OpenAI to make a safe AI company. It’s easier said than done. The scientists want the AI to lie to them. That’s the goal of the project Evan Hubinger, a research scientist at Anthropic, is describing to members of the AI startup’s “alignment” team in a conference room …
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5 days ago
The bizarre new frontier for cell-cultivated meat: Lion burgers, tiger steaks, and mammoth meatballs
Vox - Jude Whiley
“Exotic” cultivated meats claim to be harmless, but they could threaten actual endangered animals. What is the strangest meat you’ve eaten? For me, it’s reindeer. This was during a trip to Finland when I was 7. We’d gone to the Arctic Circle, where I hoped to meet Father Christmas. I remember being …
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Governments once imagined a future without extreme poverty. What happened?
Vox - Bryan Walsh
As the UN meets in New York, progress and energy around the Sustainable Development Goals is dwindling at the worst possible time. It’s United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) week, when heads of state and representatives from at least 145 countries descend upon Manhattan for the global body’s annual …

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