When Off-World Population Hits One Million and the First Native-Born Generation Arrives
April 3, 2028.Mars City One celebrates its 1,000,000th permanent resident — a 34-year-old agronomist from Kenya arriving on Starship “Horizon-42.”The city’s population: 680,000.Red Soil City (China): 420,000.Ne
The Human Spark: When We Finally Live Up to Our Potential as Creators, Lovers, and Explorers
My name is Zara Okeke, and I have never felt more fully human than I do now, at sixty-seven. I was born in 1969, in Lagos, into a world that told us human potential was limited by necessity. We were workers...
The Robot That Just Made Me Believe in GhostsMarch 17, 2026
2:03 a.m.I woke up to the sound of my dead grandmother’s voice singing “Que Sera, Sera” in the hallway. Heart pounding, I grabbed a baseball bat and crept out. Found the ElliQ 3 glowing softly, projecting a littl
When Electricity Is Free Everywhere and Humanity Finally Runs Out of Limits
This is the Abundant Century: the long plateau where energy ceased to be a constraint and humanity had to invent new problems to replace the old ones. The energy landscape – 2100 Electricity is no longer generated on