Your Future Needs You

3 Jun 2024

To create and shape the positive future we want, we need to be able to imagine it first. And then take that vision to motivate us and drive us forward; to believe that the vision is possible. For without hope, what do we have?

With this idea in mind, we set out to understand what US citizens imagine the future to be. We’ve explored the rich and unfiltered world of online conversation to surface some of the key themes shaping these visions and the hopes and fears that accompany them.

This piece of research has been in partnership with the Human Flourishing Lab (part of the Archbridge Institute in the US) which is dedicated to the study and promotion of human flourishing, as well as exploring the connection between human flourishing, civilizational progress, and freedom.

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Written by Nicola Avis (Discover.ai) and Clay Routledge, PhD (Director of the Human Flourishing Lab, Archbridge Institute)

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