Wired: ASU inspiring innovation

Launched in September 2012, Arizona State University’s Center for Science and the Imagination (CSI) has been one the main collaborators of the think tank project Under Tomorrow’s Sky, which aims to reinstate a sense of optimism in society’s view of the future.

A recent Wired article discussed how projects like Under Tomorrow’s Sky and centers like ASU’s CSI are trying to make people “think more ambitiously and creatively about the future,” according to Edward Finn, director of CSI.

The idea for the project stemmed from a debate between sci-fi author Neal Stephenson and ASU President Michael Crow as to why American society had its lost its interest in groundbreaking scientific and technological innovations. 

The next stage of the project, Future Perfect, will be unveiled at the 2013 Lisbon Architecture Biennale.