Archive - Future More Perfect

Abolish the Presidency

No human is fit to be President.

Feb 17 •

Nicholas Weininger

January 2025

Imagining a more perfect democracy

Less personalism, more citizen review

Jan 21 •

Nicholas Weininger

October 2024

There is no America B

On working for a Union more perfect

Oct 30, 2024 •

Nicholas Weininger

July 2024

Education for a more perfect future: Intro

A high level system design sketch

Jul 1, 2024 •

Nicholas Weininger

June 2024

Wicked problems of modernity

Why falling fertility is like climate change and what that means

Jun 13, 2024 •

Nicholas Weininger

March 2024

QARYs should be our quarry

Better measuring the raw material of innovation

Mar 29, 2024 •

Nicholas Weininger

July 2023

Should we make America move?

The promise and problems of Harberger taxation

Jul 20, 2023 •

Nicholas Weininger

February 2023

AI regulation wonkery

NIST, nukes, aircraft, and superintelligence

Feb 24, 2023 •

Nicholas Weininger

January 2023

Let's elect not to have elections

Achieving democratic goals when nobody runs for office

Jan 26, 2023 •

Nicholas Weininger

Helen DeWitt on futurist values

An appreciation of _The English Understand Wool_

Jan 2, 2023 •

Nicholas Weininger

September 2022

Why we fail to fail better

Blameless postmortems and prerequisites for effective mistake response

Sep 2, 2022 •

Nicholas Weininger

August 2022

The case for mediumtermism

Thinking a lifetime or three ahead is plenty

Aug 25, 2022 •

Nicholas Weininger

#nojs-banner { position: fixed; bottom: 0; left: 0; padding: 16px 16px 16px 32px; width: 100%; box-sizing: border-box; background: red; color: white; font-family: -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 13px; line-height: 13px; } #nojs-banner a { color: inherit; text-decoration: underline; } This site requires JavaScript to run correctly. Please turn on JavaScript or unblock scripts