A booster against Existential Angst

By Lou de Kerhuelvez, Foresight Institute

Don’t give up, humans. A better world is possible, and it’s on us to build it — Drop by drop.

Each month Foresight Institute drops a podcast episode and NFT artwork inspiring hope for the future, bounties to motivate positive action, and a digest of what is currently happening in the Existential Hope space.

Given currently looming existential risks e.g. nuclear war, manufactured pandemic, rogue AI system, ecosystem collapse — it’s legitimate to doubt whether we’ll make it through the century (or even the decade…).

But this is why we need to build immunity against despair, now more than ever. With the fate of our world on the line, we can’t afford to succumb to a fatalism that will prevent us from taking necessary action.

There are paths through humanity’s existential challenges. The Existential Hope project aims to share them, and create community to take those together.

With the Existential Hope drop, Foresight injects a monthly dose of positive visions, and opportunities for taking action. The drop is three-fold:

We’re just taking off. Embark with us on a mission towards better futures. That path is not an easy one: the obstacles along the way are many, and hard. But the more of us aboard, the likelier we are to make it. You can make a difference — really. The goal of the Xhope project is to share a few ways how.

The Hope Drop is but one of many content pieces you can expect on existentialhope.com.

Many projects are dedicated to identifying the threats to human existence but very few offer guidance on what to aim for instead.
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Science and Technology are rapidly developing, creating unfathomable opportunities for our future. The goal of this project is to map the space of both potential risks and possibilities which lie before us, with the hope that such knowledge empowers coordination towards flourishing futures.

We create content that helps visualize positive futures, and list resources and organizations to help onboard and coordinate a global community across future-positive organizations and projects.

For the last 35 years, Foresight Institute has been supporting the beneficial development of high-impact technology to make great futures more likely. We focus on science and technology that is too early-stage or interdisciplinary for legacy institutions to support. Foresight exists as a hub of people, projects and organizations steering towards better futures.

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