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I'm imagining a more beautiful future
Here’s the index of everything I’ve written so far.
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Recent posts

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One alternative to prison
The Other Side Academy gives convicts a job instead.
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Blue-collar jobs might be the best jobs
Things have changed since your grandpa worked the mines.
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Writing Prompt: Invent a future holiday
What rituals will sustain us?
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Elle Griffin
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You still get to choose your own life
Lifehacking for the next generation.
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Elle Griffin
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Digital nomads are opening borders
Not just the office.
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Let's discuss Ministry for the Future
With the author Kim Stanley Robinson
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Kim Stanley Robinson
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The Elysian
The Elysian
Essays imaging a more beautiful future and utopian fiction bringing it to life. Join our salon of artists, intellectuals, literary thinkers, and solarpunk dreamers!
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Oblivion (in-progress)
A utopian novel
Obscurity (complete)
A gothic novel

Government

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Cities should manage immigration (not nations)
The Heartland Visa wants to make that happen.
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What if we split the US into city-states?
On autonomy, utopia, and whether we can find it locally.
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Should US states self-govern?
Let's think through what that might look like.
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US states could absolutely have universal healthcare
Here's how Utah could do it.
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Capitalism

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Digital nomads are opening borders
Not just the office.
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This could be our economy in the year 2100
We could design a solarpunk future.
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Elle Griffin
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We need to grow our economy to advance humanity
But that doesn't mean we need to destroy the environment making flying cars.
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We don't need to "degrow" the economy
To save the environment.
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Work & Leisure

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Blue-collar jobs might be the best jobs
Things have changed since your grandpa worked the mines.
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Elle Griffin
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Remote work could solve global poverty
Open the digital borders.
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Elle Griffin
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Will we return to craftwork?
Our hobbies used to be jobs—in many parts of the world they still are—now we're turning them into jobs again.
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Yes, the future should be analog
Except for the things that shouldn't be.
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Philosophy

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We don’t need our political ideologies anymore
Just our political ideas.
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I'm studying all the utopian novels this year
And how modern thinkers are taking utopian ideals into the future.
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Humanism is my religion now
Thoughts on living a beautiful life.
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I'm so over dead French writers
On finding less existential literature.
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Podcast

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Post Modern: The Replicator
On Star Trek's ideal of a post-scarcity economy.
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Post Modern: The Metaverse
On whether we want to live in virtual worlds.
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Post Modern: Humanoid Robots
On whether this is something we even want.
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Post Modern: Flying Cars
On the future of transportation.
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Fiction

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Taylor Swift doesn't want her photo taken
The pop star opens up about the incessant coverage of her personal life in this fictional exploration of fame.
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Elle Griffin
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Could we store the internet on the ocean?
Oblivion, Chapter 12
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I think I'm in the wrong heaven
A short story about the afterlife.
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Is utopia real or imagined?
Oblivion, Chapter 11
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