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The Segal Organization

Futures

Abundance, intelligence, immortality.

Kevin Segal is, by temperament, a futurist — and an optimist. The Segal Organization funds the disciplined pursuit of humanity’s long horizon, in the conviction that the coming century can be defined by three gifts: abundance that ends scarcity, intelligence that widens what minds can do, and lives long enough to enjoy both. Our work is to help that future arrive — and to arrive for everyone, with its humanity intact.

The three horizons

Abundance

For all of history, the organizing fact of human life has been that there is not enough. We fund the science and the institutions that make energy, food, medicine, and materials so cheap and so clean that scarcity stops setting the terms — turning enough into enough for everyone.

Intelligence

Human minds amplified, and machine minds emerging, are about to enlarge what can be understood, cured, and created. We support work that keeps that intelligence aligned with human flourishing — and shared far beyond the few who first hold it.

Immortality

Aging is the oldest constraint, and the least examined. We back the long, serious effort to extend healthy human life — and the harder question beneath it: how to make a longer life something we extend to everyone, not only the fortunate.

How we fund the work

Fellowships

Multi-year fellowships for thinkers and practitioners working seriously on the long horizon — across science, design, governance, and the humanities.

Convenings

Small, sustained gatherings that bring unlike disciplines into the same room around a shared century-scale question.

Essays

We publish disciplined writing on the long view in the Journal — argument over prophecy, always.

Long-horizon questions

  1. 01

    What does a civilization do with abundance, once scarcity is no longer the organizing problem?

  2. 02

    How do human and machine intelligence grow together, and enlarge rather than diminish us?

  3. 03

    If aging becomes a problem we can solve, what do we owe the generations who could not?

  4. 04

    How do we keep meaning, and restraint, in a world that can grant us almost anything?

  5. 05

    What must we build now to be worthy of the powers we are about to hold?

Essays