/r/Futurology/

r/Futurology

21.7M members
r/Futurology is a subreddit with 21.7M members. The most common kinds of discussions are news and pain & anger, and the community frequently discusses worst, self driving cars, self driving, drought, and clean 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
News
: "World’s top 20 private equity firms produce more greenhouse gases a year than most countries, report finds"
6 posts
#2
Pain & Anger
: "US woman falsely charged with bank theft sues for $10m over AI facial recognition | Tennessee"
5 posts
#3
Advice Requests
: "Should families considering stockpiling for crisis"
1 post
#4
Ideas
: "If capital and political power keep building the future together, what will that future look like in 20 years?"
1 post
#5
Opportunities
: "Discussion: This subreddit has turned into an AI doom loop. Let’s fix that."
1 post

Popular Topics in r/Futurology

#1

Worst

9 posts
#2

Self Driving Cars

5 posts
#3

Self Driving

5 posts
#4

Drought

2 posts
#5

Clean Energy

2 posts
#6

Coal

2 posts
#7

Energy

2 posts
#8

Tech

2 posts

Products Discussed in r/Futurology

#1
Isaac Arthur
4.0★ from 2 reviews
#2
Science and Futurism with Isaac Arthur
4.0★ from 1 review
#3
Foresight Institute
5.0★ from 1 review
#1
Heaven-Girlfriend
5.0★ from 7 reviews
#2
Lusty Companion
4.7★ from 3 reviews
#3
Sexting Companion
5.0★ from 1 review

Flair Used in r/Futurology

#1
AI
: "Microsoft exec called AI scraping ‘the largest theft of labor in human history,' new unredacted filings reveal"
53 posts
#2
Discussion
: "We might be watching the end of video's dominance as the default entertainment medium for the first time since television was invente"
13 posts
#3
Environment
: "World’s top 20 private equity firms produce more greenhouse gases a year than most countries, report finds"
8 posts
#4
Robotics
: "China's UBTECH Opens Plant Making a Humanoid Robot Every 10 Minutes"
8 posts
#5
Society
: "In your honest opinion, how likely is Gen Z going to have kids from now to 10+ years (be that in their 30s age)"
7 posts
#6
Biotech
: "Underwater Solar Panels Prove Possible with New Perovskite Cells"
6 posts
#7
Energy
: "China dominates batteries. That could become a problem for Western defence."
5 posts
#8
Medicine
: "Blood-Brain Barrier Successfully Repaired in Alzheimer's Models: in Alzheimer's disease, this protective border can begin to leak. The study used zebrafish, APOE4 mice, postmortem brain tissue and CSF from people with Alzheimer's, human cells, and three-dimensional blood-vessel models."
4 posts
#9
Transport
: "BYD's new electric truck charges to 80% capacity in 20 minutes, and costs less than half the price of diesel to fuel."
3 posts
#10
Computing
: "Huawei just sped up its AI chip plans and wants to link a million processors to take on Nvidia"
2 posts

Member Growth in r/Futurology

Yearly
+151k members(0.7%)

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Last updated: September 21, 2026