All those other things still to do after the apocalypse

by | Apr 18, 2011


And now for a special preview of The Future – courtesy of XKCD (who add the following caveat in a pop-up: “Not shown: the approximately 30,000 identical, vaguely hysterical articles titled ‘WHITE PEOPLE IN [THE US/BRITAIN] TO BECOME MINORITY BY [YEAR]!’, which came up for basically any year I put in”):

  

H/t @AlanWray

Author

  • Alex Evans is founder of Larger Us, which explores how we can use psychology to reduce political tribalism and polarisation, a senior fellow at New York University, and author of The Myth Gap: What Happens When Evidence and Arguments Aren’t Enough? (Penguin, 2017). He is a former Campaign Director of the 50 million member global citizen’s movement Avaaz, special adviser to two UK Cabinet Ministers, climate expert in the UN Secretary-General’s office, and was Research Director for the Business Commission on Sustainable Development. Alex lives with his wife and two children in Yorkshire.


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