Hieroglyph aims to execute 'Big Stuff' for the future

Do you ever think about your future? Your children's future? The future of the entire world? Now, you too can help imagine and write the future with the Hieroglyph, a new project of ASU's Center for Science and the Imagination.

Hieroglyph is an online, global collective of writers and researchers that are providing inspiration for contemporary science fiction.

Science fiction writer Neal Stephenson had become concerned that our society would never again reach the great achievements of the era of the Apollo space program (i.e. "execute Big Stuff"). He came to the realization that as a science fiction writer, he and others could help inspire the next generation to dream and execute Big Stuff again. Thus, Hieroglyph was born.

"Hieroglyph is an experiment in mapping out the current field of human potential," writes Ed Finn, founding director of the Center for Science and the Imagination, in a recent Future Tense article on Slate. "We’re doing it online ... to invite the whole world to participate in these conversations."

To learn more about Hieroglyph and join the community, visit hieroglyph.asu.edu

Future Tense is a collaboration among ASU, the New America Foundation, and Slate magazine that explores how emerging technologies affect policy and society.