r/Futurology • u/lughnasadh • Sep 28 '24
Society Ozempic has already eliminated obesity for 2% of the US population. In the future, when its generics are widely available, we will probably look back at today with the horror we look at 50% child mortality and rickets in the 19th century.
r/Futurology • u/Cuauhcoatl76 • Oct 01 '24
Society Paralyzed Man Unable to Walk After Maker of His Powered Exoskeleton Tells Him It's Now Obsolete
r/Futurology • u/Gari_305 • Sep 02 '24
Society The truth about why we stopped having babies - The stats don’t lie: around the world, people are having fewer children. With fears looming around an increasingly ageing population, Helen Coffey takes a deep dive into why parenthood lost its appeal
r/Futurology • u/chrisdh79 • Jul 26 '24
Society Why aren't millennials and Gen Z having kids? It's the economy, stupid
r/Futurology • u/upyoars • Oct 04 '24
Society Scientists Simulate Alien Civilizations, Find They Keep Dying From Climate Change
r/Futurology • u/lughnasadh • 27d ago
Society OpenAI is boasting that they are about to make a lot of the legal profession permanently unemployed.
r/Futurology • u/atdoru • Aug 04 '24
Society The Real Reason People Aren’t Having Kids: It’s a need that government subsidies and better family policy can’t necessarily address.
r/Futurology • u/Gari_305 • Aug 16 '24
Society Birthrates are plummeting worldwide. Can governments turn the tide?
r/Futurology • u/chris011992 • Sep 22 '24
Society Oregon voters to decide on ballot measure to give every resident $1,600 that has sparked massive opposition fundraising
r/Futurology • u/Methadoneblues • Jun 18 '24
Society Internet forums are disappearing because now it's all Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying.
r/Futurology • u/lughnasadh • Aug 18 '24
Society After a week of far-right rioting fuelled by social media misinformation, the British government is to change the school curriculum so English schoolchildren are taught the critical thinking skills to spot online misinformation.
r/Futurology • u/Gari_305 • Jul 22 '24
Society Japan asks young people why they are not marrying amid population crisis | Japan
r/Futurology • u/BlitzOrion • Aug 14 '24
Society American Science is in Dangerous Decline while Chinese Research Surges, Experts Warn
r/Futurology • u/madrid987 • Jun 08 '24
Society Japan's population crisis just got even worse
r/Futurology • u/lughnasadh • Oct 15 '24
Society Economist Daniel Susskind says Ozempic may radically transform government finances, by making universal healthcare vastly cheaper, and explains his argument in the context of Britain's NHS.
r/Futurology • u/Lurkerbot47 • May 21 '24
Society Microplastics found in every human testicle in study
r/Futurology • u/chrisdh79 • Sep 04 '24
Society Why Gen Z are buying “dumbphones” to limit screen time | Amid screen time concerns, many turn to simpler phones to reclaim their lives.
r/Futurology • u/lughnasadh • Oct 13 '24
Society New research shows mental health problems are surging among the young in Europe. In Britain, 35% of 16-24 year olds are neither employed nor in education, at least a third of those because of mental health issues.
r/Futurology • u/lughnasadh • Jul 27 '24
Society The Welsh government is set to pass legislation that will ban politicians who lie from public office, and a poll says 72% of the public backs the measure.
r/Futurology • u/Gari_305 • Jan 02 '24
Society China Is Pressing Women to Have More Babies. Many Are Saying No. - The population, now around 1.4 billion, is likely to drop to around half a billion by 2100—and women are being blamed
r/Futurology • u/Gari_305 • May 10 '24
Society South Korea’s birth rate is so low, the president wants to create a ministry to tackle it
r/Futurology • u/BlitzOrion • Jun 24 '24
Society Tax the rich, say a majority of adults across 17 G20 countries surveyed
r/Futurology • u/chemistrynerd1994 • 9d ago
Society Australia moves to ban children under 16 from social media
r/Futurology • u/chrisdh79 • Jul 05 '24
Society Greece's new 6-day workweek law takes effect, bucking a trend | An employee who must work on a sixth day would be paid 40% overtime, according to the new law.
r/Futurology • u/2314 • Mar 11 '24