by Omega | Mar 26, 2025 | Culture
In 2017, the MIT Media Lab launched MyGoodness, an online game billed as a way to teach players to “maximize the impact of [their] charitable donations.”1 The game’s premise is simple. In each of ten rounds, you’re given one hundred dollars and asked to choose between...
by Omega | Mar 25, 2025 | Worldviews
This year’s list arrives at a pivotal moment. We’re witnessing unprecedented advances in artificial intelligence, breakthroughs in medicine and biotechnology, and growing movements to address existential challenges from climate change to threatening new...
by Omega | Mar 24, 2025 | Books, Fiction
An expansive look at the contemporary artists confronting, challenging, and reimagining R. Buckminster Fuller’s techno-utopianism to envision sustainable futures Architect and designer R. Buckminster Fuller’s (1895-1983) concept of “Spaceship...
by Omega | Mar 24, 2025 | Resilience
Two big moments have happened in the last six weeks with a major impact on our future. The world made a historic commitment to the wellbeing of current and future generations by adopting a “Declaration on Future Generations” at the UN. And Trump was elected US...
by Omega | Mar 24, 2025 | Community
These signals can be data points, observations or insights from the field that carry significant, if uncertain, implications for the future. Whether specific data points that might be weak signals of emergent change, or multiple signals pointing to a wider trend, our...
by Omega | Mar 21, 2025 | Politics
The Future of Militias: He penetrated a new generation of militia leaders, which included doctors and government attorneys. Experts say that militias could have a renaissance under Donald Trump. A Secret Trove: He sent ProPublica a massive trove of documents. The...
by Omega | Mar 20, 2025 | Resilience
Resilience has experienced exponential growth in scholarship and practice over the past severaldecades. We conduct a meta-analysis of recent review papers on resilience from all relevant fields todistill key themes emanating from both research and practice. These...
by Omega | Mar 19, 2025 | Community
Social problems are like Hydra heads: cut one off, and more appear. This is the frustrating reality that organizations in the philanthropic sector face every day. They try to solve problems to improve people’s lives, but many problems persist despite much effort and...
by Omega | Mar 18, 2025 | Culture
After the glorious accident of having been born at all, there are myriad ways any one life could be lived. The lives we do live are bridges across the immense river of possibility, suspended by two pylons: what we want and what we make. In an ideal life — a life of...
by Omega | Mar 17, 2025 | Worldviews
As we reach the midpoint of Strategy 2030, we are entering a new humanitarian era. A complex mass of emerging trends is changing the world around us and affecting our ability to act: from social and geo-political polarisation to protracted conflicts that threaten...
