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Steinway player piano (Courtesy Steinway & Sons)

Steinway Brings Live Recitals to Your Living Room, Piano and All

A large analog synthesizer covered in Christmas lights.

MIDI 2.0 Expands the Digital Music-Making Toolbox

Electronic musician Yoko Sen in the hospital

An Electronic Musician’s Quest to Reimagine Hospital Soundscapes

Crypto Island podcast cover art

PJ Vogt’s Crypto Island Podcast Explores the Wild Wild World of Digital Currency

Our New At a Distance Podcast Takes a Good Look at the Big Picture

Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Dr. Katharine K. Wilkinson looking out over green mountains from a patch of trail.

These Climate Podcasts Focus on Stories, Not Statistics

The Workspace of Tomorrow cover art, featuring a white cube and text on grey-green background.

Introducing Our New Podcast About the Future of Work

Alien Listening Book

Why Aliens Could Be Able to Listen to NASA’s Golden Record—Even If They Don’t Have Ears

A Radiooooo illustration with a woman with red hair and blue skin.

Avoid Algorithms With the Incredibly Refreshing Radiooooo

Angela Glover Blackwell looking into a microphone, in front of a blue background.

Angela Glover Blackwell’s Great, Galvanizing Podcast

Landscape's Stereo Field, a yellow and gold synthesizer.

These Compact Analog Instruments Pack a Punch

Story collections on the Reasons to be Cheerful website.

David Byrne’s Reasons to Be Cheerful Cheers Us Up

An illustration from Night Sky featuring the Virgo constellation.

This App Brings the Cosmos into Your Pocket

A map of the world with red dots and forms drawn over it.

Rem Koolhaas Brings the Country to the City With a Guggenheim Show

Olafur Eliasson’s “Tell Me About a Miraculous Invention” (1996). (Photo: Ernest Sackitey. Courtesy SCCA Tamale)

A Multi-Venue Exhibition in Ghana Seeks to Shift Perspectives Through the Lens of Time

Vertical split screen of a woman wearing a face mask and a man wearing a space helmet

Designer Lydia Cambron Makes a Quarantine Version of the Finale of “2001: A Space Odyssey”

CW&T’s Time Since Launch clock. (Courtesy CW&T)

A Brooklyn Studio Whose Creations Alter Our Perspectives on Time

A screenshot from House Party featuring some of The Slowdown team.

The App That Everyone Is Going to Be Using During the Covid-19 Quarantine

Rendering of Drift’s indoor drone performance, “Social Sacrifice” (2022). (Courtesy Drift and Aorist)

In Venice, “CodeX” Offers an Optimistic Take on the Future of Art and Technology

MoMA curator Paola Antonelli

MoMA Curator Paola Antonelli on Pandemics and Protests

The cover of the book "Meaningful Stuff: Design That Lasts" by Jonathan Chapman.

How to Break the Cycle of a Throwaway Society

A blue, brown, and translucent sculpture by Neri Oxman.

Neri Oxman’s “Material Ecology” Gets the MoMA Spotlight

Tatiana Schlossberg smiling next to the front cover of Inconspicuous Consumption.

Environmental Journalist Tatiana Schlossberg Shares Her Media Diet

Dr. Uma Valeti in a still from the documentary “Meat the Future.” (Courtesy “Meat the Future”)

This Documentary Follows a Start-Up Taking Animals Out of Meat Production

Beatrice Galilee writing in a notebook with her laptop before her.

Beatrice Galilee’s New Architecture Conference Takes a Whole-Earth Perspective

A submersible robot traveling below the Thwaites Glacier.

This Video Footage of the Thwaites Glacier Shows the Sea Levels Rising Before Our Very Eyes

Black and white photo of a woman jumping rope

How the Pandemic Has Altered the Way We View Everyday Objects

Curator Wassan Al-Khudhairi

At the Armory Show, an Exhibition Where Artists Share Visions of the Future

An orange and white handout from Black Mountain College.

Black Mountain College Is About to Come to a Screen Near You

“Me + You,” an A.I.-powered installation by Suchi Reddy

This Sculpture Wants to Know How the Future Makes You Feel

The Kistefos Museum in Jevnaker, Norway

Bjarke Ingels on Creating Extraordinary Environments for Today and Tomorrow

Three people underneath an Olafur Elaisson video installation.

Olafur Elaisson’s Latest Exhibition Offers a Hopeful Vision of the Future

The Earth on a black background

What We’re Reading on the Internet Archive

author and environmental anthropologist Gina Rae La Cerva

Environmental Anthropologist and “Feasting Wild” Author Gina Rae La Cerva’s Media Diet

At a Distance book by Spencer Bailey and Andrew Zuckerman

Introducing The Slowdown’s First Book, “At a Distance: 100 Visionaries at Home in a Pandemic”

A hallway in AORA’s virtual gallery. (Courtesy AORA)

These Virtual Exhibitions Draw on the Real-Life Health Benefits of Art

A large crowd protesting for Black Lives Matter in New York City.

Lawyer-Turned-Photographer Cindy Trinh on Documenting New York City Protests

Michael Pinsky's Pollution Pod domes, with people inside and out.

Artist Michael Pinsky’s Climate-Action Plan: “Pollution Pods”

Cecilia Bembibre in a blue shirt, leaning over a table with a book.

Cecilia Bembibre Is On a Mission to Save the Scents of History

Filmmaker Grace Boyle tracking sensory data in the Amazon. (Photo: Fábio Nascimento. Courtesy Greenpeace)

This London Studio Draws on Smell-O-Vision as a Tool for Promoting Social and Environmental Advocacy

A tin of 4ever mints in peppermint flavor.

Fix Your Bad Breath With These Minty Solutions

Meet NASA’s “Nasalnaut”

NASA's Eau de Luna perfume next to a pile of moon rocks.

NASA’s “Eau de Space” Fragrance Recreates the Smell of Outer Space

Sarah Socia. (Courtesy OVR Technology)

The Real-Life Benefits of Augmenting the Metaverse With Scents

A trigeminal-based temperature illusion device developed by Jas Brooks, Steven Nagels, and Pedro Lopes. (Courtesy Jas Brooks)

What Will the Metaverse Smell Like?

A clear bottle of Air Co. vodka.

A Carbon-Negative Vodka Straight Out of a Sci-Fi Storyline

A FarmBot waters a bed of herbs and vegetables.

Plot an Edible Home Garden With This Automated, Open-Source Bot

Paper bag on a table with food

How the Too Good to Go App Aids in the Fight Against Food Waste

A split avocado in bright, moody lighting.

Miguel Gonzalez, AKA Davocadoguy, on the Perfect Avocado

Edn's home garden with an assortment of herbs.

A Low-Maintenance Home Garden for the Botanically Challenged

Dr. Brian Fisher smiling and examining a pinned wasp.

Entomologist Dr. Brian Fisher on Why Edible Insects are Good for Your Health

Wolfhouse tarot cards

A Philip Johnson House, Transformed Into a Community Hub for the Future

A man doing bicep curls with a Forme home gym.

Get Your Home Gym (and Yourself) Into Shape With These Solutions

The Three Best E-Bikes on the Market

A white Light Phone in grass.

A Smartphone Alternative We Can Totally Get Behind

A large tray of compost heading into a white container surrounded by plants.

Why Human Composting Is the Future of Death Care

An astronaut on the moon, with a dome reflected in their visor.

Fish Scales and Lunar Dust May Hold the Key to Building on the Moon

A bowl of yellow squash and tomatoes.

This App Will Help Get Your Green Thumb Going

Vollebak’s Indestructible Puffer. (Courtesy Vollebak)

From an Indestructible Puffer to 100-Year Pants, Vollebak Makes Clothes for the Future

A man in virtual reality playing an exercise game, floating on a disk above a lake.

Break a Sweat to Supernatural, a Home Gym With a VR Twist

Manitoga house designed by Russel Wright

An Exhibition Posits How Design Can Be a Steward of Nature and the Future

Hands holding the threads of a white roll of fabric.

Using Ancient Craftsmanship, Angel Chang Designs Clothes for the Future

Petit Pli clothing

Pleated Clothing Designed to Grow With Your Kid

A crinkled green tote bag on a white plinth.

A Waterproof, Washable Bag That’s Actually Environmentally Friendly

A black bottle reading Saunders & Long.

Saunders & Long’s Ingenious 5-in-1 Grooming Solution

Sagmeister 123’s Progress Shirt and Opinion Coat. (Courtesy Sagmeister 123)

With His First Clothing Line, Stefan Sagmeister Visualizes Positive Global Trends

A man wearing an army green face mask.

These Masks Bring New Meaning to “Facial Expressions”

Plush, knitted lights in multiple colors with a hand squeezing them.

These Knitted Kinetic Lights Take Playtime Seriously