Posts by Andrew Maynard

Now that the semester is in full swing, I wanted to remind College of Global Futures students of the various emergency funds available within the College and beyond. If you’re

YouTube is emerging as one of the most important platforms around for providing free, accessible, and informed expert content. But for the most part, academics are incredibly bad at taking

“We’ve been sent the wrong book!” — this was my wife a week or so ago, on opening one of the increasingly ubiquitous Amazon packages that seem to litter our

The new book Covid-19 Conspiracy Theories: QAnon, 5G, the New World Order and Other Viral Ideas by John Bodner, Wendy Welch and their co-authors, should come with a public health warning: “If you’re easily disturbed, proceed with caution!”

If you search for the term “responsible innovation” on YouTube, the chances are that the first video you’ll see is “A Practical Guide to Responsible Innovation.” And yet, since it

This week was the start of what is possibly my favorite class to teach–The Moviegoer’s Guide to the Future in the Arizona State University College of Global Futures! It’s a

I have no words that adequately capture my feelings of anger and dismay as I watch the ongoing assault against American democracy, justice and freedom that’s unfolding. And even if I had, they wouldn’t fit comfortably in a blog posted on a public university website. Yet we are a College of Global Futures, and so the one thing we surely cannot do is stay silent as those futures we aspire to come under threat.

As I write, over 1.8 million people have died of COVID around the world, with more than 80 million cases reported, infections continuing to rise, and a growing number of people intent on endangering their lives and those of others through their disregard of good public health practices, disbelief in the virus’ existence, or disdain for efforts to contain it.

We’re standing at a pivotal point in our collective response to the coronavirus pandemic. The first vaccine against the virus is beginning to be rolled out, with others hot on