Welcome to the New OnlySky
OnlySky is back with the same mission, a fresh look, and a new focus on exploring the future. Join us!
Why we'll always be terrible at predicting the future
In which we introduce a new project about predicting the future by saying it can't be done.
The saved and the damned of Proxima Centauri B
How might Christianity work intelligent alien life into their worldview? Did everyone get a Jesus?
‘Cementing bias in a flower-scented maze’: A.I. and the eternal digital footprint
Artificial intelligence is big business, and it’s not going away.
Is simulation theory just another form of religion?
Simulation theorists argue whether we can make our own decisions or are controlled by the hyper-intelligence that created the universe. Sounds familiar.
AI: The newest squirrel distracting evangelicals from their own decline
Evangelicals have expressed both dread regarding AI’s popularity and power, and excitement about its potential to turn around their decades-long decline.
How is climate anxiety impacting young people?
A landmark survey suggests that climate anxiety—a chronic fear of environmental doom—is taking an outsized psychological toll on the young.
What would you write to the future?
The Future Library Project is collecting books that won’t be published in our lifetime.
How do we talk about impending doom so that people will listen?
Books like ‘The Ministry for the Future’ offer a useful vocabulary for hashing out solutions to our overheating world.
Our AI future: Don’t fear the Singularity
AI futurists assume that faster thinking automatically produces greater intelligence, leading to a Singularity of transcendent machine minds. But speed is the less important half of intelligence.
Our AI future: heaven, hell, hype and hogwash
Existing AI programs are single-purpose. They aren’t the futurist dream of an artificial general intelligence that can solve any problem and rapidly improve itself.
Gen Z views are rapidly splitting in half by gender—and the gap is not small
Today’s young people are going through a significant shift. Young women appeared to be more concerned with and aligned to progressive values and issues, while young men are moving in a more conservative direction.
Could the rise of the nonreligious defuse the population bomb?
On November 15, 2022, the UN estimate of Earth’s human population flew past eight billion. Can less religion slow the explosion?
