/r/Futurology/

r/Futurology

21.7M members
r/Futurology is a subreddit with 21.7M members. The most common kinds of discussions are ideas and news, and the community frequently discusses future, ai, technology, jobs, and energy, and they frequently recommend/review youtube channels and ai girlfriend app.
A subreddit devoted to the field of Future(s) Studies and evidence-based speculation about the development of humanity, technology, and civilization. -------- You can also find us in the fediverse at - https://futurology.today

Popular Themes in r/Futurology

#1
Ideas
: "The fertility gap between the richest and poorest countries has shrunk from 3 children per woman to less than 1. Birth rates have been falling in both for 60 years (St. Louis Fed, June 2026)"
14 posts
#2
News
: "Mexico cuts workweek, bans after-hours contact, and guarantees no worker will take a pay cut in the most sweeping labor reform in a generation"
7 posts
#3
Pain & Anger
: "53% of Americans fear AI could take their jobs, poll finds"
3 posts
#4
Opportunities
: "If automation and AI actually reach the level of decoupling labor from survival, how do we handle the transition period without massive civil unrest?"
2 posts
#5
Advice Requests
: "Feedback"
1 post

Popular Topics in r/Futurology

#1

Future

: "Will we need fossil fuels for plastics in the Future? Spanish researchers hail a bioplastics breakthrough; direct conversion of cheap, minimally processed potato starch into a commercially relevant biodegradable polymer in a single biological step, via CRISPR."
111 posts
#2

Ai

: "Anthropic CEO Floats Tax on Ai Firms to Fund Universal Income"
71 posts
#3

Technology

: "Brain-Controlled Wheelchair Gives Mobility to Paralyzed People: New Technology Allows People to Think Their Way Across a Room"
53 posts
#4

Jobs

: "53% of Americans fear AI could take their Jobs, poll finds"
19 posts
#5

Energy

: "Energy Independence is Becoming Solar's Strongest Selling Point"
15 posts
#6

Climate Change

14 posts
#7

Automation

: "If Automation and AI actually reach the level of decoupling labor from survival, how do we handle the transition period without massive civil unrest?"
11 posts
#8

Struggling

10 posts
#9

Work

: "Mexico cuts Workweek, bans after-hours contact, and guarantees no Worker will take a pay cut in the most sweeping labor reform in a generation"
10 posts
#10

Space

: "Drug development is heading to orbit as pharma joins the Space race"
9 posts

Products Discussed in r/Futurology

#1
Isaac Arthur
4.0 from 2 reviews
#2
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4.0 from 1 review
#3
Foresight Institute
5.0 from 1 review
#1
Heaven-Girlfriend
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#2
Lusty Companion
4.7 from 3 reviews
#3
Sexting Companion
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Flair Used in r/Futurology

#1
AI
: "Anthropic CEO Floats Tax on AI Firms to Fund Universal Income"
50 posts
#2
Discussion
: "Mexico cuts workweek, bans after-hours contact, and guarantees no worker will take a pay cut in the most sweeping labor reform in a generation"
32 posts
#3
Society
: "The fertility gap between the richest and poorest countries has shrunk from 3 children per woman to less than 1. Birth rates have been falling in both for 60 years (St. Louis Fed, June 2026)"
21 posts
#4
Energy
: "A windowless concrete tower 40 stories tall on the China coast stacks 35-ton blocks to store a wind farm’s power, lifting them when the wind blows and dropping them through generators when the grid needs it, no lithium inside"
13 posts
#5
Robotics
: "Fully autonomous drones have killed human soldiers for the first time"
12 posts
#6
Biotech
: "Stanford scientists successfully regrow lost cartilage and reverse arthritis in new study"
9 posts
#7
Medicine
: "First human trial of reverse-aging drug begins"
8 posts
#8
Space
: "The SpaceX IPO isn’t a financial milestone—it’s the official corporate privatization of Earth’s low orbit infrastructure."
8 posts
#9
meta
: "Brain-Controlled Wheelchair Gives Mobility to Paralyzed People: New Technology Allows People to Think Their Way Across a Room"
7 posts
#10
Environment
: "Potentially historic El Niño to come, analysis shows humanitarian toll"
5 posts

Member Growth in r/Futurology

Yearly
+101k members(0.5%)

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Last updated: June 24, 2026