Editor’s note, December 25, 8 am ET: This story is being republished for the holiday season. It was originally published in 2020. It might seem unbelievable given that the “Christmas creep” now begins before Halloween, but the true Christmas season actually starts on Christmas Day itself. That’s right: December 25 marks the official start of […] Read more ›
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Some police departments say kids could be in danger of accidentally sharing their contact info using NameDrop in iOS 17. This isn’t exactly true. | Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto via Getty ImagesA warning about the NameDrop feature on iOS 17 is just the latest in a long history of misleading Facebook posts from law enforcement. Warnings about NameDrop, a feature on Apple’s iOS 17 that allows users to share contact information, have... Read more ›
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Lauren Tamaki for VoxNyandoro’s program takes aim at generational poverty in Jackson, Mississippi. The longest-running guaranteed-income program in the United States just turned five years old — and it’s led by a trailblazing woman in Mississippi named Aisha Nyandoro. As the founding CEO of Springboard to Opportunities, a nonprofit working to end generational poverty, Nyandoro launched an initiative called the Magnolia Mother’s Trust (MMT) in 2018. It gives $1,000 monthly... Read more ›
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Lauren Tamaki for VoxThe tangled nature of climate change and colonialism means justice has to account for both. As climate change intensifies, so too does the risk that it will sustain and solidify injustices from the past well into the future. Rising sea levels and more frequent extreme weather events disproportionately affect populations who continue to suffer the legacies of colonialism and slavery, and global warming is worsening economic inequalities... Read more ›
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Lauren Tamaki for VoxIt can be hard to start a nonprofit. Savoie and Sarek are trying to make it easier. Joey Savoie and Karolina Sarek are in the business of raising people’s aspirations. They take idealistic people (many young, but some older as well) who want to change the world for the better, help them identify especially cost-effective strategies for doing so that current charities are not pursuing, and team... Read more ›
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Lauren Tamaki for VoxIf you’re going to break the law in order to change it, you need a good lawyer. If it weren’t for the animal rights activists who go undercover on America’s factory farms and slaughterhouses, we’d have little idea of the extreme cruelty inflicted on the billions of animals raised for meat, dairy, and eggs each year. That’s why, from the 1990s to the 2010s, meat producers aggressively... Read more ›
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Lauren Tamaki for VoxThe Climate Optimism author believes focusing on victories can engender more positive action. Zahra Biabani, a Gen Z activist and author of Climate Optimism, believes that change is worth pursuing, no matter how bleak things may at times look. Her book, she says, is not for politicians who continue to operate with a business-as-usual mindset or straight-up deny climate change is happening. It’s for everyone else —... Read more ›
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Lauren Tamaki for VoxThe technologist and author is providing a guide to a world changing at an exponential rate Azeem Azhar is, as he puts it in his 2021 book The Exponential Age, a “child of the microchip,” born in 1972, the “year after the first commercially produced computer processor was released.” As a 7-year-old in Zambia, he was introduced to computing when a neighbor brought home a build-it-yourself computer... Read more ›
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Lauren Tamaki for VoxAfter founding GiveDirectly, Niehaus is pushing the frontiers of social science research. In 2008, when economist Paul Niehaus came up with the idea of a charity that distributes cash directly to the world’s poorest people, the reception was not positive. Jacquelline Fuller, who formerly ran philanthropy for Google, has said that when she initially pitched the idea of funding the venture to a boss, they replied, “You... Read more ›
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Lauren Tamaki for VoxIt might just be the most important job in the world. OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, believes it’s on the cusp of transforming our world with powerful AI systems. At minimum, it thinks these will fundamentally change how we work and live. At maximum, it could make our world unrecognizable overnight. To make this go well, instead of catastrophically badly, OpenAI has created what it calls the... Read more ›
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Lauren Tamaki for VoxLeading USAID’s small social innovation fund, Gallant prioritizes evidence and evaluation. Last year, the US spent about $69 billion in foreign aid trying to make the world outside its borders a better place. While that’s just above 1 percent of the US government’s budget, it makes the US the single largest provider of foreign aid in the world by total dollars spent, focusing on areas like poverty... Read more ›
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Lauren Tamaki for VoxThe co-founders and co-CEOs of the Institute for Progress want to kick-start America’s innovation engine. Sometime in the 1970s, the US lost the future. Productivity growth in the decades since has been in decline. Building things has gotten harder and harder and more and more expensive. Real scientific progress has stagnated, as has the length of our lives. We’re even flying slower than we did in the... Read more ›
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Lauren Tamaki for VoxChile’s minister for the environment hopes to bring science, social equality, and decarbonization together. As a climate scientist and professor of geophysics at the Universidad de Chile, Maisa Rojas was unhappy with political inaction around climate change — so she decided to step up to the plate, join Chile’s government, and try to enact legislation that follows the science. Prior to becoming the minister for the environment... Read more ›
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Lauren Tamaki and Paige Vickers/VoxThe thinkers, activists, and scholars working on solutions to today’s (and tomorrow’s) biggest problems. At Future Perfect, we’re primarily concerned with ideas — ideas that can change the world, ideas that can make it a better place, ideas that might seem utopian but are actually doable. But ideas only matter so far as they have people behind them, the people who can transform those ideas into... Read more ›
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Lauren Tamaki for VoxFor the APEX Advocacy founder, moral consistency means championing the rights of all. For Christopher “Soul” Eubanks, veganism is more than simply avoiding animal products. It’s also an opportunity to resist the exploitation of all beings, from the billions of animals tightly packed onto factory farm floors to the communities of color who disproportionately live alongside these polluting facilities. Eubanks, a social justice advocate and innovative moral... Read more ›
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Lauren Tamaki for VoxThe Ethiopian American plant geneticist designed better sorghum — saving thousands, if not millions, of lives. Food scientist Gebisa Ejeta couldn’t stand idly by while people suffer from hunger. Born in a remote village in Ethiopia more than 70 years ago, Ejeta would walk more than 12 miles to school in a nearby town to learn. His mother later encouraged him, with help from an Oklahoma State... Read more ›
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Lauren Tamaki for VoxTeran worries the government isn’t doing enough to address biosecurity risks. She’s pushing to change that. Nearly four years after the SARS-CoV-2 virus spread from Wuhan, some 28 million people worldwide have died prematurely in the ensuing pandemic. Governments spent trillions managing the public health emergency, the economic emergency, and the challenge to social order posed by the disease. Yet there’s little indication that governments, especially the... Read more ›
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Lauren Tamaki for VoxPritchett is advocating for immigration reform and thinking big about global development economics. Lant Pritchett is like the lovable, crotchety uncle of development economics. He peppers colleagues, and policymakers, with annoying questions — specifically questions that are annoying because they hit on gaps in his targets’ worldview, gaps that they know about but are tempted to ignore. Now teaching at the London School of Economics, Pritchett spent... Read more ›
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Lauren Tamaki for VoxNamed after her daughter, the Zuri Nzilani Foundation hopes to end maternal mortality. Every year, the pregnancy condition preeclampsia kills 76,000 mothers and 500,000 infants. Ashley Muteti, a public relations specialist in Kenya, survived the condition — a hypertensive disorder that causes high blood pressure — twice in her 20s. Preeclampsia is one of the leading causes of maternal death globally, capable of causing internal bleeding, seizures,... Read more ›
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Lauren Tamaki for VoxThe physicist and co-founder of the QBism theory is shaking up his field. In the intricate and often bewildering world of quantum mechanics, Christopher Fuchs, a physicist at the University of Massachusetts Boston, stands out as a maverick thinker. QBism, the interpretation of quantum mechanics that he and some of his colleagues helped create, marks a bold divergence from traditional explanations of quantum reality, much like a... Read more ›
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Illustrations by Lauren Tamaki for VoxHere’s how the Future Perfect team determined the 2023 cohort of up-and-coming and unsung thought leaders. There are a million and one lists that highlight the shiny individuals and buzzy organizations that publications think we should care about. But what makes the Future Perfect 50 list starkly different from the typical celebrity-touting curation is that we’ve dedicated space to the often unsung heroes who are... Read more ›
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