What Gross World Flourishing Could Look Like

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The Monitor: A thought experiment

"The Future is Bright:" A fiction

What an AI Genius Could Do: A fictional short-short story

Utopia: a short-short story

A Word With Marty: "FUTURE"

When Most People Don't Earn Enough Money

What Clinical Psychology Might Look Like in 2030

Many psychotherapists, counselors, and their clients are pleased with their efforts' efficacy. But even many of them wish for better. The future may provide it.

My Psychology Today article today presents three possible improvements, both to offer hope for the future and to suggest ideas for people interested in a career that could additionally improve humankind's mental health.

High Tech vs High Touch

My most recent article, Changes in a Lifetime,  described societal changes in the past half-century. My PsychologyToday.com article today projects forward.

Future-Ready Careers

The ideas in my PsychologyToday.com article today hold the possibility of getting on the ground floor of some next Big Thing.

Education in 2040?

Education has long been held up as a bulwark of hope for an improved society, for example, reducing the achievement gap. Alas, that promise remains largely unfulfilled, with the achievement gap as wide as ever despite a $22 trillion spend to close it. And as ever more jobs require high-performance information-economy skills, the need for dramatically improved education grows.

So it’s no surprise that, for decades now, there have been calls for education’s reinvention. But powerful organizations with vested interest in the status quo have heretofore stalled major change.

Unfettered by such restraints, in my PsychologyToday.com article today, I posit what could be a dramatically more effective educational system, which by 2040, could even become realistic.

The Workplace of 2040? One possibility

In a recent article, I offered a possible scenario of what the average person’s life will be like in 2040, an era of diminished employment opportunities. 

In my PsychologyToday.com article today, I project what life in the corporation or large nonprofit might look like.

The Psychotherapist of 2040?

Yes, psychotherapists, indeed all sorts of counselors, will likely still be in demand in 2040. That's because any job requiring subjective judgment is tough to automate. Plus, people will always want to talk with someone about their problems. But the work of a psychotherapist in 2040 will likely change dramatically. My PsychologyToday.com article today offers one possibility:

Sam's Saga: What a typical graduate's next 20 years is likely to be like

As my PsychologyToday.com contribution today, I offer a short-short story that projects what a new graduate's life over the next 20 years might be like.

Future Careers

There’s long been fascination with predicting jobs of the future. Leonardo DaVinci predicted airplane (“ornithopter”) pilots. Jules Verne predicted submarine pilots, astronauts, and the ubiquity of career women.
Of course, many predictions are wrong. No less than Isaac Asimov predicted we’d be living in underwater cities. But just as some people buy a speculative stock in hopes that the greater risk will yield far greater return, as my PsychologyToday.com article today, I offer 11 deep-under-the-radar careers. Who knows? Maybe some offer opportunity to get in below the ground floor.

The Future of the World: A Debate Between an Optimist and a Pessimist

Many of my clients, colleagues, friends, and I wonder about the future of the world. We do it just for the fun of conjecture or for a serious reason. For example, some people wonder if they want to bring a child into the world s/he’ll spend the next 100 years in.
So it might be instructive or at least interesting to explore possible futures. To that end, my PsychologyToday.com article today offers  a debate between the optimist and pessimist within me.

12 Predictions for 2050

As my PsychologyToday.com article today, I make 12 predictions for 2050.

Our Scientific Future: An Interview with Michio Kaku

In today's PsychologyToday.com The Eminents interview, I talked with Michio Kaku. He is arguably the world’s most famous science popularizer. 

Although a professor of theoretical physics at the City University of New York, he has written three New York Times best sellers, including a #1 bestseller, The Future of the Mind, which the New York Times book review called “compelling” and Nature called “fascinating.” He has hosted TV specials for the BBC, Discovery Channel, and Science Channel.

The Future of Work

At work, many of us tend focus on what we have to do now. But it may be helpful to have a more forward-thinking view, if not for yourself, for those you care about.

In my PsychologyToday.com article today, I offer my predictions regarding the future of work. Each year, for a long time, publications have asked me to write such predictions because previous ones have been reasonably accurate. For example, for the last two years, TIME has had me do so. Here is the one that recently appeared there. 

There was much more I wanted to say, so for Psychology Today, I wrote this more comprehensive and I believe more helpful foray into the dangerous game of forecasting.