What We Owe The Future and Further Reading

Here’s my attempt at predicting what’s going on in September: William MacAskill’s ‘What We Owe The Future’ is the book everybody’s discussing. In the pub, the hairdresser, the supermarket queue; in your pottery workshop, your Dungeons & Dragons group, your Sunday league football team.

Time will tell. We don’t know the future. But, as William MacAskill persuasively argues, the future is highly contingent upon our collective actions: we live in an era of high plasticity, and the values and directions we set in place will have an exponential effect upon future generations. In ‘What We Owe The Future: A Million-Year View’, MacAskill synthesises philosophy, science and critical thinking into a powerful case: that concern for the distant future should be a core moral priority of our time.

Preorder it today and you’ll be able to join that conversation as soon as the book’s published on September 1st. As far as future predictions go, that’s the most certainty I can offer.

Taking the conversation further and deeper, I’ve created this list containing other authors’ predictions on the future, covering focuses upon technology, the natural world, and geopolitics.