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The Future of Outer Space
Thursday, November 20, 2025, 6:00–7:00pm
Future Café is a student-organized series that provides the opportunity and space for undergraduates to collectively imagine utopian possibilities and long-term futures. University of Chicago College students, please join us for our next meeting to discuss the future of outer space over pizza, guacamole, and chips.
As the habitability of Earth becomes less certain, outer space has been at the forefront of many futurists’ minds. Should we find a habitable world tomorrow, what would we do? When would we leave? What would we leave behind? What would we maintain? What would happen to the economy, international relations, and technology in the process?
Imagining life on a different planet would likely also require a new version of a human. CRISPR, artificial intelligence, and extrasensory capacities are already causing us to reconsider what makes humans human, but how would that conversation shift when designing a human adapted to live on another planet?
Future Café is free and open to all UChicago undergraduate students. Join us for our next meeting to imagine together what outer space will look like 100, 500, or 5,000 years from now.
This event is free and open to all University of Chicago undergraduate students; registration is recommended.
