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21st Century Skills
Massive Transformative Purpose
Come up with an Motivational Transformative Purpose for yourself or for a company/project/organization that you want to launch.
Digital Immigrant Guide
Imagine you had a friend that was about to start using the internet and computers for the first time. Create a one-page guide that you...
Launch Your Moonshot
Think about a local problem in your community and consider how you can come up with a solution that exhibits 10x improvement of the status...
Life, Love & Death
Mindfulness Adventures
Create your personal meditation practice! There is no “right” or “wrong” way to meditate. The more that we become aware of how our meditation affects...
Celebrate being alive
Imagine you have passed away. Create a multimedia poster celebrating your life.
Meaning & Happiness
Exercise your creativity and write a recipe for how to find meaning and happiness in life.
Culture & Society
Create Your Own Tribe
Imagine you were elected leader of your own tribe. Create a charter or manifesto about how your tribe will be different from other tribes. This...
How to Argue Effectively
Create a guide (min 1 page) outlining how you should address someone you disagree with and how you can have a productive discussion.
Free Speech on Campuses
Write an opinion piece (800-1000 words) on why we should or shouldn’t have free speech on college campuses.
Art & Literature
Library of Utopia
Imagine you are the chief designer and architect of the Library of Utopia. This is going to be the greatest Library humanity has ever seen....
Astronomy Art Competition
How does the cosmos make you feel? What is humanity's future in this universe? What does it mean to be a cosmic citizen? Can you...
Science Fiction Writing Challenge
Where do you see our species 10s, 100s or perhaps 1000s of years from now? Write a science fiction story (max 1000 words) under the...
Science & Exponential Technologies
Start a Science Salon or Cafe
Start a science salon or cafe in your school or community to discuss scientific issues in a non-academic setting. Note, that you’re not being ask...
Understanding Exponential Growth
Create an infographic that describes the difference between linear and exponential thinking.
Automation & The Future Work
In many ways technological automation is inevitable but how can we ensure that the displacement of jobs doesn’t lead to overwhelmingly negative outcomes? What are...
The Human Project
Vision Board
Create a vision board/dream board for yourself of all the most important things you’d like to do in your life.
Infinite Knowledge
Exercise your creativity and write a recipe for how humans can create infinite knowledge.
Cosmic Citizen
Plan to Mars
Mars is considered to be one the most promising future homes for humanity. Yet, the path to Mars colonization is one that will span generations....
Bill of Rights
Imagine a future where we have all become cosmic citizens. Create a bill of rights of a cosmic citizen.
Pale Blue Dot – Poetry Challenge
On 14 February 1990, as the spacecraft Voyager 1 was leaving our planetary neighborhood, Sagan suggested that NASA engineers turn it around for one last...
Future Studies
Exponential Medicine – Infographic
What does the future of medicine look like? Exponential technology is revolutionizing healthcare. How we prevent, treat and cure diseases is being radically transformed. Technology...
Future of Finance – Article
In a world of exponential technologies, all industries and sectors are vulnerable to disruption. This includes finance, banking and our global economy. Write an article...
Adaptive Foresight – Predict The Future
Foresight is simply the act of looking to and thinking about the future. This can be amateur or professional, trained or untrained. Exercise foresight thinking...
Contemporary Philosophy
Cognitive Biases
A cognitive bias is a systematic pattern of deviation from norm or rationality in judgment. We all have these biases and often, the lead to...
Moral Code
The Code of Hammurabi is a well-preserved Babylonian code of law of ancient Mesopotamia, dating back to about 1754 BC. It is one of the...
Beauty
Create two sketches/paintings of the same scene or person - but one should be created and labelled “beautiful” and the other “not beautiful”.
Shots of Awe
Create Your Own Shot of Awe
Ever ponder the miracle of life? Or perhaps wonder about the evolution of intelligence? In Shots of Awe, Jason Silva chases his inspiration addiction as...
Discovering Alien Life
Imagine we have discovered evidence of intelligent life out there in the Universe. Design the front page of a newspaper with the headlines and an...
Infinite Games
Write the rules for or describe a game that would never end. This has to be a novel game unique to your imagination and not...
Intelligent Optimism
The Importance of Intelligent Optimism
Intelligent optimism is all about being thrilled, excited, and optimistic about the future in an informed and rational way based on statistics, data, evidence, facts,...
Future of Humanity
We have the power to imagine, design and execute the future that we want to live in. What does the future of our species look...
Intelligent Optimism Video Challenge
Watch the video of Hans Rosling talking about all the data that show the world's past, present and future development. It is called 'Hans Rosling's 200...
21st Century Ethics
Cyborg Bill of Rights Challenge
Imagine a future where in humans have merged with machines to become cyborgs. In this world, we will be need a new form of ethics...
Internet Privacy Campaign
Create an educational video or poster for your school and/or community to spread awareness about privacy in the future.
AI Poetry Challenge
How will Artificial Intelligence impact the way we live & work. How will it impact the future of our species? How will it impact our...
