Archive - Foresight Institute

How Light Could Revolutionize Medical Diagnostics | Mary Lou Jepsen

“What if you could diagnose stroke, treat cancer, and cure depression with a smartphone‑sized device that costs $1,000 instead of millions?”

Jul 9

June 2025

May 2025

Eric Gilliam | What history can teach us about doing better science

"Sometimes history gets rid of things for arbitrary reasons. I ask: what did we throw away that we shouldn’t have — and how do we bring it back?"

May 30

April 2025

New Bio-& Nanotech Grantees, X Hope Course + Prizes, Talks from Vision Weekend Puerto Rico

New Online Course: Build Positive AI Futures

Apr 30

Hope Drop #37: Aaron Stupple | Raising kids for an unknown future

“My relationship with my children is the most impactful philosophical outcome of my life.”

Apr 25

We made a course about AI, the future & hope—It’s live now

A new online course to help you imagine what hopeful futures with AI could look like.

Apr 1

March 2025

February 2025

Hope Drop #35: Steven Pinker | On why the future looks better than you think

"The techno-optimists need to do a better job at showing the real benefits of technology—not just theoretical possibilities or gimmicks, but actual…

Feb 28

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