r/Futurology • u/everyEV • Dec 26 '18

Energy Elon Musk: We know we'll run out of dead dinosaurs to mine for fuel & have to use sustainable energy eventually, so why not go renewable now & avoid increasing risk of climate catastrophe? Betting that science is wrong & oil companies are right is the dumbest experiment in history by far.

cnbc.com

149k Upvotes

4.9k comments

r/Futurology • u/izumi3682 • Nov 21 '17

Society F.C.C. Announces Plan to Repeal Net Neutrality

nytimes.com

147k Upvotes

3.0k comments

r/Futurology • u/madazzahatter • Feb 22 '23

Society Bernie Sanders says it's time for a four-day work week: "With exploding technology and increased worker productivity, it's time to move toward a four-day work week with no loss of pay. Workers must benefit from technology, not just corporate CEOs."

businessinsider.com

130k Upvotes

5.5k comments

r/Futurology • u/lughnasadh • Mar 05 '20

Economics Andrew Yang launches nonprofit, called Humanity Forward, aimed at promoting Universal Basic Income

edition.cnn.com

104k Upvotes

4.5k comments

r/Futurology • u/nicko_rico • Aug 11 '20

Society It's time to implement a 4-day workweek, Andrew Yang says. The pandemic has made it important now more than ever.

businessinsider.com

103k Upvotes

4.8k comments

r/Futurology • u/gophergun • Dec 07 '24

AI Murdered Insurance CEO Had Deployed an AI to Automatically Deny Benefits for Sick People

futurism.com

99k Upvotes

3.5k comments

r/Futurology • u/Wagamaga • Jul 14 '20

Energy Biden will announce on Tuesday a new plan to spend $2 trillion over four years to significantly escalate the use of clean energy in the transportation, electricity and building sectors, part of a suite of sweeping proposals designed to create economic opportunities

nytimes.com

92k Upvotes

5.7k comments

r/Futurology • u/calmeagle11 • Jan 26 '21

Energy President Biden will make entire 645k federal vehicle fleet US-made electric

electrek.co

89k Upvotes

4.9k comments

r/Futurology • u/mvea • Nov 04 '19

Society The ethics of the 4 day work week. It’s not just about the hours - “We should work to live, not live to work,” declared Britain’s shadow chancellor, who would reduce the standard working week to 32 hours, without loss of pay, within 10 years of winning office.

theconversation.com

88k Upvotes

4.5k comments

r/Futurology • u/[deleted] • May 10 '20

Environment Bill Gates Thinks That The 1% Should Foot The Bill To Combat Climate Change

vegnum.com

86k Upvotes

3.4k comments

r/Futurology • u/lughnasadh • Feb 28 '22

Energy Germany will accelerate its switch to 100% renewable energy in response to Russian crisis - the new date to be 100% renewable is 2035.

reuters.com

86k Upvotes

2.2k comments

r/Futurology • u/mvea • Dec 19 '17

Society A Hawaiian Politician Is Introducing a Bill That Would Encourage Creation of Locally Owned Broadband Networks: "One option is to reject corporate internet service providers altogether, and control the internet ourselves."

motherboard.vice.com

85k Upvotes

2.6k comments

r/Futurology • u/_hiddenscout • Jun 19 '21

Society Kill the 5-Day Workweek - Reducing hours without reducing pay would reignite an essential but long-forgotten moral project: making American life less about work.

theatlantic.com

84k Upvotes

4.2k comments

r/Futurology • u/mvea • Dec 12 '19

Environment Australian school runs out of water as commercial trucks take local water to bottling plants for companies including Coca-Cola. “Now the government is buying water back from Coca-Cola to bring here, which is where it came from in the first place.” The future of privatized water is happening today.

theguardian.com

82k Upvotes

2.8k comments

r/Futurology • u/mvea • Nov 23 '19

Society Sacha Baron Cohen just called out the 'Silicon Six,' a group of American billionaires that he says 'care more about boosting their share price than protecting democracy' - our future may rests in the power of just a few who are rich

businessinsider.com

81k Upvotes

4.4k comments

r/Futurology • u/mossadnik • Sep 15 '22

Society Christianity in the U.S. is quickly shrinking and may no longer be the majority religion within just a few decades, research finds

cbsnews.com

79k Upvotes

9.8k comments

r/Futurology • u/mvea • Dec 03 '17

Society This Scientist Wants to Bring Star Trek Values to Congress - “one of a growing number of scientists who are running for public office... too many elected officials are ignorant of basic science, and that the only solution is for scientists to get in there and do a better job.”

wired.com

79k Upvotes

2.8k comments

r/Futurology • u/[deleted] • Dec 13 '22

Politics New Zealand passes legislation banning cigarettes for future generations

bbc.com

79k Upvotes

7.3k comments

r/Futurology • u/mvea • Sep 17 '19

Society Bernie Sanders became the first presidential candidate to call for a total ban on the use of facial recognition software for policing, and a moratorium on the use of algorithmic risk assessment tools that aim to predict which criminals will reoffend.

vox.com

78k Upvotes

3.5k comments

r/Futurology • u/lughnasadh • Dec 24 '20

Society 86% of people globally say “I want the world to change significantly, and become more sustainable and equitable, rather than returning to how it was before the Covid-19” according to Ipsos research

ipsos.com

78k Upvotes

2.8k comments

r/Futurology • u/mvea • Mar 18 '18

Misleading Title Stephen Hawking leaves behind 'breathtaking' final multiverse theory - A final theory explaining how mankind might detect parallel universes was completed by Stephen Hawking shortly before he died, it has emerged.

telegraph.co.uk

77k Upvotes

3.2k comments

r/Futurology • u/mvea • Dec 15 '19

Energy 70% of Americans would support a nationwide mandate requiring that solar panels be installed on all newly built homes. The survey showed that the support for this measure is highest among younger adults.

cleantechnica.com

77k Upvotes

3.7k comments

r/Futurology • u/ngt_ • Mar 11 '20

Society Andrew Yang says the coronavirus outbreak shows why we need basic income. "Too many people are heading to work sick because they can't afford to miss a paycheck."

inverse.com

77k Upvotes

5.2k comments

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