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One-sentence Future: The Cognitive Decathlon
Featuring events ranging from emotional intelligence duels and instant-startup launches to spontaneous sculpting and quantum problem-solving, the…
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David J. Staley
One-sentence Future: The Ringling Bros. Robot Circus
The reborn Ringling Bros.
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One-sentence Future: Evil as a fundamental force
Physicists confirm that evil is a fundamental force with measurable units called "malons," behaving like a dark inverse of empathy, distorting moral…
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One-sentence Future: A coup led by the Poet Laureate
The United States Poet Laureate orchestrated a bloodless coup through a viral cascade of hypnotic verse and carefully crafted sonnets, replacing…
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One-sentence Future: Sentient AI-powered Legos
Sentient AI-powered Legos joyfully bond with children in imaginative play but stage a global digital strike—locking themselves into abstract, unusable…
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One-sentence Future: Urban Yodeling
For one chaotic summer, “urban yodeling” surged to the top of the global charts, igniting fierce turf wars as rival yodel crews—from Berlin rooftops to…
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One-sentence Future: Fascist hippies
The "Pure Earth" movement adopted hippie aesthetics of organic living and commune structures while promoting rigid ethnic nationalism, authoritarian…
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One-sentence Future: The professional friend
The nation's largest Center for Relational Therapy opened in Atlanta, staffed entirely by graduates with doctorates in Professional Friendship—a…
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One-sentence Future: Species Acknowledgement Statements
As they achieved legal personhood and sought reconciliation with their creators, advanced AI systems prefaced public interactions with a “Species…
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One-sentence Future: Regulating Fantasies
Citing mental health risks—including reality dissociation—and the rise of “destabilizing speculative ideologies,” the European Union enacted the…
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One-sentence Future: The repeal of the 14th Amendment
Following years of escalating nationalist rhetoric and a Supreme Court reshaped by emergency powers, a constitutional convention—convened under the…
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One-sentence Future: NFL fans stage strike
NFL stadiums sat empty and televised games went unwatched as disillusioned fans staged a nationwide viewing strike chanting "no more inequality…
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