Foundations
Chapter 0 · Part IOutlines the core intention, language and framing of the report. Introduces multiple futures as a shared design space and explains how the chapters connect.
Open foundations ↗0.0 Overview
A shared entry point into the Future of Humanity Report
The Future of Humanity Report grew out of the Future of Humanity Experience held in Basel in 2025 and years of lived reflections and experiments around the future of humanity.
It gathers signals, questions and stories from people working across disciplines and contexts. Instead of predicting one timeline, the report opens a space where multiple futures can be explored side by side and revisited over time.
How to use this page: Start with the foundations,
choose the future that resonates most right now, move between chapters
as needed and return as new questions, experiments and experiences emerge.
Structure
Chapters across the Future of Humanity Report
The report is structured around nine chapters: a foundation, seven thematic futures and a forward-looking closing chapter. Below is an at-a-glance overview with short descriptions and direct links.
Future of Collaboration
Chapter 1 · Part IIExplores how humans and machines collaborate, make decisions and share agency. Looks at trust, coordination and new architectures of working together.
Open chapter ↗Future of Consciousness & Technology
Chapter 2 · Part IITreats technology as a mirror of human consciousness. Examines attention, presence and the shadow and light of technological futures.
Open chapter ↗Future of Creativity
Chapter 3 · Part IILooks at creative work in a world shaped by AI, automation and planetary limits. Traces how imagination and artistic practice remain tangible sources of value.
Open chapter ↗Future of Exploration
Chapter 4 · Part IIConnects space exploration with inner exploration. Questions why and how we explore, and what responsibility beyond Earth can look like.
Open chapter ↗Future of Intelligence & Prediction
Chapter 5 · Part IILooks at predictive systems, AI models and data infrastructures and how they transform decision making, uncertainty and the idea of knowing.
Open chapter ↗Future of Prosperity
Chapter 6 · Part IIRedefines prosperity beyond money and status. Investigates value, distribution, care and regenerative models for people and planet.
Open chapter ↗Future of Technology
Chapter 7 · Part IIFocuses on infrastructures, interfaces and tools that shape everyday life. Questions how technological choices encode values and open or close possibilities.
Open chapter ↗Forward
Chapter 8 · Part IIIBrings threads from all chapters together and looks ahead. Invites readers to treat the report as a starting point for their own futures, collaborations and experiments.
Open forward ↗Context
Future of Humanity Experience & report
The Future of Humanity Experience and the Future of Humanity Report belong together. One creates a physical situation for reflection and dialogue; the other holds the work in a form that can travel across time and locations.
Many of the ideas, quotes and questions in the report come directly from installations, workshops and conversations during the Experience. This page keeps that connection visible and offers a way back to the physical space.
You can find more about the Experience here:
Future of Humanity at Basel 2025.
Reading guide
Using the report in your work and life
The report is not meant to be read once and put away. It is designed as a companion for projects, conversations and decisions.
- Use the foundations and forward as bookends for deeper reflection.
- Enter through the future that feels most relevant to you right now.
- Move between chapters following the questions that stay with you.
- Translate tensions and prompts into workshops, strategies or artworks.
- Return after new experiences and notice what has shifted.