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Bryan Walsh

Bryan Walsh

Senior Editorial Director, Future Perfect, Climate, Unexplainable and The Gray Area

    Latest articles by Bryan Walsh

    Introducing the 2022 Future Perfect 50
    The 2022 Future Perfect 50

    The scientists, thinkers, scholars, writers, and activists building a more perfect future.

    By Bryan Walsh
    DARPA changed technology. Now Renee Wegrzyn wants to bring the same innovation to medicine.
    The 2022 Future Perfect 50

    Wegrzyn is the first head of the new Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health, which aims to generate game-changing advances in medicine.

    By Bryan Walsh
    The physicist Max Tegmark works to ensure that life has a future
    The 2022 Future Perfect 50

    From the return of nuclear war to the danger of AI weapons, Tegmark is tackling humanity’s greatest threats.

    By Bryan Walsh
    Pollution poisons millions. Richard Fuller and Pure Earth are doing something about it.
    The 2022 Future Perfect 50

    Protecting those who have been left behind by industrialization.

    By Bryan Walsh
    How can we make the world progress faster? Jason Crawford wants to know.
    The 2022 Future Perfect 50

    The thinker fueling the growing progress studies movement.

    By Bryan Walsh
    Setsuko Thurlow is a living reminder of the horrors of nuclear war
    The 2022 Future Perfect 50

    She survived the bombing of Hiroshima — and has spent her life campaigning against atomic weapons.

    By Bryan Walsh
    Kevin Esvelt wants to make the world safe from — and for — biotechnology
    The 2022 Future Perfect 50

    Employing cryptography to ensure that CRISPR is used for good.

    By Bryan Walsh
    The novelist Kim Stanley Robinson’s vision roves from the deep past to the distant future
    The 2022 Future Perfect 50

    Robinson gives readers grounded sci-fi with a soaring spirit.

    By Bryan Walsh
    How Ted Nordhaus brought realpolitik to climate politics
    The 2022 Future Perfect 50

    The Breakthrough Institute co-founder helped lay the intellectual foundation for a more effective approach to fighting climate change.

    By Bryan Walsh
    DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis is AI’s grandmaster
    The 2022 Future Perfect 50

    From mastering games to decoding proteins, Hassabis is shepherding the next generation of artificial intelligence.

    By Bryan Walsh