In this episode of The Imagination Desk, @edfinn.bsky.social and @patpat.bsky.social, professor at MIT and founding director of the cyborg psychology research group, discuss the impact of AI on human growth and ethical considerations of AI addiction and dependency. Listen on Spotify and Apple Music.

So excited to see this new book series launch with a fantastic lead volume, the classic Jules Verne novel From the Earth to the Moon: Annotated for Our Spacefaring Age!

Dear Internet, what do I do with the biggest cucumbers you’ve ever seen? This is not a double entendre, just a single, monolithic entendre. Or maybe three entendres, each twistier than the last. Pen included for scale.

Check out this conversation with @edfinn.bsky.social and Deji Olukotun with moderator @beritanderson.bsky.social. Join FiRe next year for more at the 2027 conference www.futureinreview.com/event-details-registration/future-in-review-2027 Or see this year's conference: www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjaB...

The conversation I had with Deji Olukotun at the Future in Review conference is now live. We discuss hopeful futures, sound ecology, and my rad midlife crisis sneakers... www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjaB...

The future is bright 🐠 All #fiction #writers are invited to submit their work to The Protopian Prize writing contest. Submissions are open now until July 31st. Read more about the contest rules and prizes here: protopianprize.com/how-to-enter 🌐 #writingcontest #writer #storytelling

Our new season of The Imagination Desk podcast is up! First up is a great conversation with leading imagination and creativity scholar Anna Abraham about the neuroscience of imagination, its intersections with AI, and how to navigate this brave new world. open.spotify.com/show/7IQHQKr...

This Friday, join Future Tense Fiction for a conversation with author @monicabyrne13.bsky.social about worldbuilding in speculative fiction. We’ll discuss the social, scientific, and policy dimensions of her fictional worlds, and the tools she uses to create them. open.substack.com/live-stream/...

What happens when we start to think about imagination as a critical element of public health infrastructure? Delighted to share this new paper exploring the role of applied imagination in public health! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

There are some gems in our latest edition of Imaginary Papers from ASU's Center for Science and the Imagination. I especially enjoyed Jason Nabi's writing on Asimov's three laws of robotics and the inherent gaps between language, meaning, and implementation.

Reflecting on editing as the remediation of failures and the humility of revision. The older I get, the more I have to learn!

Attention futures fans! The Protopian Prize is launching May 1! Inviting artists, storytellers, and dreamers to share their vision of people working toward liberatory futures, meeting obstacles, & making real change. Hosted by @metagov.bsky.social and @publicai.network. protopianprize.com

If you're interested in hopeful futures, Frankenstein, or how to rewild your mind, you might enjoy this conversation I had with Ruth Wylie, who runs the Center for Science and the Imagination with me, and Lisa Kay Solomon on her podcast How We Future: open.substack.com/pub/howwefut...

Fresh off the wire: a toolkit for speculative fiction writers interested in imagining hopeful climate futures: climatefictionwritersleague.substack.com/p/imagining-...

What happens when an imminent threat becomes the centerpiece of culture? This question is at the heart of ‘Return to Sender’ by Sarena Ulibarri, our latest #freefictionfriday piece, and part of Our Radioactive Neighbors, CSI’s latest collection. Get a copy here! 🔗 : csi.asu.edu/books/radnei...

Excited to share our latest book! Technically grounded, hopeful futures tackling a pernicious challenge: the ethics and practicalities of storing nuclear waste. Check out Our Radioactive Neighbors online and download your free copy! Read it here: csi.asu.edu/books/radnei...

all this is both foolish and unnecessary

Thank you to @climateconnections.bsky.social for featuring our book Climate Imaginatjon alongside We Will Rise Again and a whole slate of excellent-looking new climate futures books for your reading pleasure! yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/12/imme...

In case you missed it, video from our book launch conversation for Climate Imagination: Dispatches from Hopeful Futures is now live: www.newamerica.org/future-tense...

A new roundtable on climate futures featuring our Climate Imagination authors Vandana Singh, @libia.bsky.social, Gu Shi, and Hannah Onoguwe, along with my co-editor Joey Eschrich: lithub.com/on-the-urgen...

"Climate Imagination," edited by Joey Eschrich & @edfinn.bsky.social, brings together global voices to share stories of resilience and inspire hope for positive climate futures through short speculative fiction, essays, and visual art. Available #OpenAccess: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255366...

Glad to see this interview with me and Joey Eschrich live on @clarkesworldmagazine.com today! Topics include: our new Climate Imagination book, my itinerant upbringing, the mysteries of editing, and our good fortune in working together for over a decade! clarkesworldmagazine.com/finn-eschric...

Join us on Thursday, December 4, at 10 AM for a virtual conversation exploring how fiction can help shape our vision of better social policies. Moderator @edfinn.bsky.social will join @drkarenlord.bsky.social , @annaleen.bsky.social , Malka Older, and Craig Calhoun. asu.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

OUT TODAY! Very excited to share our new anthology Climate Imagination with the world. CAPITALISM: If you order directly from the publisher in the US today, December 2, 2025, you can receive a 30% discount using the code MITP30. Perfect for those larger stockings. mitpress.mit.edu/978026255366...

🤔How can we decrease our anxiety about the future? 🔮"If we want to change the future, we need to change the story we’re telling about the future," says @edfinn.bsky.social , the director of ASU's Center for Science and Imagination, in his conversation with @miaaarmstrong.bsky.social.

In a recent interview for the Siemens Xcelerator Community, author and Professor @edfinn.bsky.social joins David Erhard and Bill Johnston in examining the critical role that imagination plays in helping us solve complex, modern-day challenges. 🔗 community.xcelerator.siemens.com/public/video...

🤖Can today’s science fiction become tomorrow’s guidebook for change? 🎙️TPN founder Zachary Karabell & TPN exec. director Emma Varvaloucas sat down with @edfinn.bsky.social the visionary behind @imaginationasu.bsky.social & academic director of Future Tense, to talk about it link.chtbl.com/PxqfcV-v

Ooh! Another chance to catch my mini-series on Future Cities on Radio 4! Last night I spoke with @GiselaDetrell cities on Mars, and what that can teach us about the future of urban life here on Earth catch up: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... Next up (18/09) it's @edfinn.bsky.social

Fresh futures still hot from the oven! Check out @erinkwagner.bsky.social's new Future Tense Fiction story "The Middle," a tale of fine dining, automation and labor politics in the shadow of climate chaos. Delicious! issues.org/futuretensef...

In the latest episode of the Federal News Network’s “What’s Working in Washington?” CSI Founding Director @edfinn.bsky.social joins entrepreneur Jonathan Aberman in examining our ever-revolving relationship with AI. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...

The Existential Hope Podcast Ed Finn, founding director of ASU’s Center for Science and the Imagination, explores the impact of storytelling on our ability to envision and create better futures and more hopeful narratives. 🌈 @edfinn.bsky.social #solarpunk #scifi #foresight

AI: Friend or foe? The answer may not be that simple. Check out the latest episode of “We Mean Business”, where @edfinn.bsky.social examines the role and future of AI in storytelling, art, and marketing. Check it out at the link below! 🔗https://businessjournalism.org/2025/05/ai-and-art/

A conversation about AI and creative work with ASU Cronkite student journalist Ananya Bhargava. Thanks Reynolds Center for the conversation! businessjournalism.org/2025/05/ai-a...

Sometimes writing a book chapter feels like holding an egg with a teaspoon while running the mile, except that you also need to do it in a way that nobody else has ever done it before.

#AcademicSky #HigherEd 🧪🎢 ⚛️

Starting to suspect that the prize for reading all the bad news is just…more bad news?

In this episode of The Imagination Desk, @edfinn.bsky.social and Brendan O’Connor unpack the science of imagination — how we use memory to build futures, how stories help us connect, and why imagination is essential for navigating a complex world. 🎧 Tune in now on: csi.asu.edu/podcast/

If I'm reading this right, Trump has terminated $363,420,951 in existing NEH grants - literally a drop (0.000054%) in the federal budget, but of immense impact on the communities and people and disciplines which receive them. Utterly vile.

How do you govern the unknown? 🤔 On this week’s episode of The Imagination Desk, @edfinn.bsky.social sits down with @aarathikrishnan.bsky.social, to talk about why imagination is essential — not just for artists and storytellers, but for decision-makers, too. 🎧 Listen now: lnkd.in/grTZXaRy

This was such a great conversation!

I just wrote to all of my congressional representatives to plead them to support the NEH, for everyone, for public history, for scholarship, for teaching, for all of it. I used this widget: very easy, it has a template, and automatically looks up the emails of your representatives. p2a.co/DdtlGIT

Recently plucked from the swirling, pearlescent ether of speculative futures: my chat with the amazing @kyliu99.bsky.social about imagination, writing, and that time some of his characters got together and hijacked his creative process... theimaginationdesk.libsyn.com/ken-liu

Do you dare to imagine...the future of BART? Our latest SF story in @issuesinst.bsky.social by long-time @imaginationasu.bsky.social friend Deji Olukotun does THIS VERY THING. See also the excellent response by @babeliberman.bsky.social! issues.org/futuretensef... issues.org/futuretensef...

We're back with a new season of The Imagination Desk! I'm so excited to share this season with the world.

Thank you to Adyacente Posible for translating my recent essay into Spanish! adyacenteposible.com/2025/02/20/e...

Dial this into your time machine...

I am really enjoying @annaleen.bsky.social and @charliejane.bsky.social's new podcast episode about Big Dumb Objects in space. Don your unwieldy Death Star laser technician helmet and check it out. Just be careful not to hit anyone with it in the space elevator.

I'm excited to share this essay in Issues in Science and Technology on the power of speculative fiction to help us make better decisions about how we develop and govern emerging technologies. issues.org/science-fict...

Did you know that attention across the whole input span was inspired by the time-negating alien language in Arrival? Crazy anecdote from the latest Hard Fork podcast (by @kevinroose.com and @caseynewton.bsky.social). HT nwbrownboi on Threads for the lead.