Future Perfect
Finding the best ways to do good. Check out our 2025 Future Perfect 25 list, which presents 25 changemakers who are innovating and implementing ways to keep making progress on global health and development.
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Silicon Valley is racing to build a god — without understanding what makes a good one.
No one wants to make it.
You were told you’d change the world. But there’s a better way to think about your potential.
What if the best use of AI is restarting the world’s idea machine?
Love, actually…is a chatbot?
A billionaire’s spiritual guide to letting go — of $19 billion.
The US was making progress on its antibiotics-in-meat problem. Now it’s backsliding.
It’s been a long road to ensure that testing on human subjects is ethical. AI could send us backward.
DNA synthesis is going global. The biosecurity rules aren’t keeping up.
You can now place bets on elections, wars, and deportations. Should you?
The affordability crisis is a growth crisis.
The end of fur just got a lot closer.
The historic increase in global child deaths, explained in one chart.
A major seafood company wants to farm octopuses for their meat. Activists and academics say it’s impractical and cruel.
The Dells’ $6 billion gift just legitimized Trump accounts.
Giving — it’s in your blood.
A short history of Giving Tuesday, the international day for giving back.
These are the most effective charities for reducing animal suffering.
How to do the most good possible with the money you give.
Supporting groups that work on malaria, lead poisoning, and other health issues can make a big difference with just a little money.
Here’s everything you wanted to know about blood donation
One of humanity’s biggest achievements may be slipping away.
The world is aging out of killing one another.
An investigation reveals how the company behind the White House turkey pardon — and the rest of the industry — really treats its birds.
We don’t have to accept all that death and waste for a dry, flavorless bird no one likes.
How doctors learned to stop childhood food allergies.
How underwater factory farms are reshaping our food system.
“Setting boundaries” is broken — but there’s a different way to think about caring for yourself and others.
Why the Trump administration is cutting out a country that needs it most.
The meat industry’s climate accountability moment is here.
We can never prove that other animals are conscious. What do we do with that?
Meet the heroes keeping global progress alive.
The “pharmacy of the world” needs to reinvent itself.
Meet the Future Perfect 25: On the ground.
Meet the Future Perfect 25: Movers and Shakers.
Meet the Future Perfect 25: The Innovators.
Meet the Future Perfect 25: The Thinkers
These women save countless lives every year. We need more of them.
CEO Alexander Berger on how the funder’s second act aims to show that effective giving can scale up
Why Iran’s capital is running out of water — and why it won’t be the last.