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Original ideas, practical guides, and clear-eyed analysis on the technologies reshaping human life—and what thoughtful builders can do next.
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A working thesis for a book about the moment intelligence stopped being scarce—and the choices that made abundance human.
Continue readingA Sentinel-2 workflow found whole-tile cloud percentages unreliable for local reef imagery and automated spectral-change triage—but geographic test error rose sharply and no field data validated coral health.
In a randomized Japanese trial of 848 caregivers, a chatbot produced a 0.30-point advantage on a seven-question HPV-vaccine literacy measure immediately and at two weeks, but vaccination decisions did not differ.
A staggered Change.org rollout made petitions longer, more complex and more alike—but did not improve two early support thresholds.
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Briefings from the edge of what is becoming possible.
At Slovenia's Urbas site, an autoregressive ablation had the lowest median displacement error but zero F1 for threshold crossings; multi-task training raised median F1 to 0.526, still short of operational readiness.
Across a global retrospective evaluation, an AI river model matched or beat GloFAS same-day F1 skill at a five-day lead for one-, two- and five-year flood events—but warning delivery and avoided harm were not measured.
In a two-ED cluster-randomized trial, AI-assisted chart review, expert adjudication and rapid clinician feedback lifted SEP-1 process compliance by 13 points—but did not establish better patient outcomes.
In an exploratory study, three stroke survivors and a carer prioritized review, error-flagging and privacy controls; four people with aphasia then tested one supported prototype scenario.
A physics-informed graph model estimated resilience across 20,000 simulated grid states and improved recovery rankings inside a fixed simulator—promising evidence for human-supervised triage, not autonomous control.
In a six-week Singapore pilot, a community-curated chatbot gave 26 completers flexible practice while teachers and heritage experts controlled the sources, voices and validation.
We cover progress as a connected system—not a collection of disconnected trends.
The systems becoming our collaborators, infrastructure, and most consequential design choice.
Build intelligence that expands human agency.02Quantum, security, computing, and the tools moving from impossible to inevitable.
See the inflection point before it becomes consensus.03Advanced manufacturing, robotics, energy, and the return of the physical economy.
The future still has to be built in the real world.04Longevity, mental health, psychedelics, and the science of living more fully.
Progress should make us more alive, not merely more efficient.05Fintech, agentic commerce, ownership, and the changing architecture of opportunity.
Follow how value moves and who gets to keep it.06Identity, resilience, defense, and the trust layer for a synthetic world.
A more capable world must also become a more trustworthy one.Tools for the builders / Sterling CoWorker
Disclosure: Sterling CoWorker is built by the same team as Next for Humanity. According to Sterling’s current product materials, it works inside Slack, connects to business tools, and helps finish recurring work while outbound actions wait for one-tap human approval.
A note from the founder
“Technology should not ask humanity to become smaller so machines can become more capable.”
Next for Humanity follows the people building the opposite future: more agency, more abundance, more time for the parts of life that should never be automated.
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