Columbus Futurists is the region’s “imaginetic center,” creating and curating ideas and images of the future. Columbus Futurists imagines not only crises but also opportunities and preferred futures.
Public Forum:
February 12, 2026
Topic: “The Future of Love”
12:00-1:00pm (eastern)
Location: Zoom link
As technology reshapes intimacy and society fractures traditional bonds, new forms of love, connection and intimacy are emerging. We’ll explore a number of speculative models of future love: from algorithmic partnerships to distributed affection across networks; from relationships preserved as digital archives to love as political resistance against disposability. We’ll consider asymmetric bonds between humans and non-human intelligences and deferred commitments in uncertain times. We will explore how technology, economic uncertainty, demographic change, and cultural shifts are reshaping what love looks like, how it is sustained, and where it fails.
March 19, 2026
Topic: “Future Ohio: Economy”
12:00-1:00pm (eastern)
Location: Zoom link
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