Still
OpenThe future, in progress The world’s open problems, what stands in the way, and who is moving it
An imagined science museum with warm timber, sweeping concrete galleries, and exhibits of future healthcare and flight.
01STILL OPEN
A MUSEUM OF WHAT COMES NEXT

The future,
in progress.

Enter the halls

An imagined future. The evidence is below.

Four lights
on every problem.

Know — do we understand it well enough to act? Can — does a working solution exist? Do — is it reaching the people who need it? Keep — is the gain being held? The first unlit light is what stands in the way, and it is more often Do or Keep than Know. How to read the lights ↗
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The halls / 001

Eight halls.

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Across the collection / 002

What stands in the way.

Counted by the first unlit light. Exhibits under investigation are not counted.

Now showing / 003

All exhibits
An illustrative future clinic with a patient, a clinician, and a calm noninvasive scanning system.
VISION 01 / HEALTHIllustrative future, not a clinical result

On view · Medicine, science & invention

More life.
More possibility.

Tomorrow’s care starts with work we can examine today. These three evidence records are part of a much bigger story.

The evidence records / 004

Where we stand.

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Historical years are calendar time. Open a record for AI mission time, human contributions and sources. The halls above carry the four lights for these and other exhibits.

The claims desk / 005

Claimed, checked, used.

The whole desk →

The master timeline / 006

How long things stay open.

The timeline →

Vision 02 / Movement

The long way
home. Shorter.

Flying cars. Quieter cities. More room to live. Some futures are still an invitation to invent.

Future vision · no solution claimBack to the halls
An imagined modern flying car exhibited in a warm museum overlooking a green city, with another aircraft in the sky.
Concept illustration. Not a documented achievement in this collection.

A little wonder.
A lot of evidence.

Progress is worth getting excited about. It’s also worth getting right.

Evidence record
How this site works

Evidence before attribution.

Every factual record links to its sources and review date. Exhibits carry four independent lights — Know, Can, Do, Keep — and the first unlit light is what stands in the way. Exhibits under investigation show no lights until two editors agree. Unknown AI mission timing is a coverage limit, not a claim that no AI research exists.

Separate the clocks

Historical elapsed time runs from a sourced origin to a stated endpoint. Year-only dates produce a range. An AI mission clock starts only at a documented assignment, and separates wall time, active compute, retries, and human work. We never divide these different measures to claim a speedup.

Follow the evidence

Claim → proposed result → verification → acceptance. Disputes and retractions remain visible. Peer review, formal proof checking, replication, clinical validation, and regulatory approval are distinct events. On the claims desk this is one ladder, 0 Announced to 6 Benefit measured, with the checker named. Scientific consensus is broad expert acceptance, not unanimity.

Account for the whole cost

Hardware allocation, training and inference, retries, people, energy, and experimental validation have separate boundaries. Unknown is never zero. Cheap electricity or future fusion does not erase other costs.

Keep forecasts separate

Any future forecasts must be labeled scenario estimates with assumptions and uncertainty. This index has no monetary betting and currently contains no forecasts.

People and pictures

A person is on a page because they moved a barrier. Portraits of historical figures will be depictions from documented likenesses, labelled as such; living people are photographed by licence or named, never generated. Nobody is invented.

Coverage is manually curated. No automatic scraping or monitoring is enabled.