Students think about the future often—but the dominant emotions they associate with it are anxiety or overwhelm.
This insight emerged during a live poll with over 1,600 students at the ABRCMS 2025 conference for multidisciplinary science and workforce development.
1,600+
STEM Undergraduate and Graduate
students surveyed
55%
Report feeling Anxious or Overwhelmed when thinking about their future work or life
While higher education invests heavily in technical preparation, many students lack spaces to process uncertainty, identity shifts, and rapid change.
Quantum Futures endeavors to fill this gap.
Quantum Futures: A Portal to Possibilities
Quantum Futures is a story-powered futures literacy and collective intelligence experience designed to help students develop the adaptability, creative capacity, and critical thinking skills needed to navigate an uncertain world.
It emerges from a simple premise: the future is not fixed or singular. It is plural and relational—shaped by imagination, values, and actions.
Quantum Futures complements traditional higher education by engaging students as whole human beings, drawing on cognitive science merged with futures thinking to surface and address hidden barriers that can stifle learning and aspiration.
Core Objectives
Help Students:
Explore Technology's Impact
Understand how emerging technologies like AI are reshaping industries and careers
Transform Uncertainty into Agency
Translate anxiety and ambiguity into imagination and actionable road maps
Strengthen Human Capabilities
Build creativity, critical thinking, and adaptability—the skills that must evolve alongside technical capabilities
Become Active Leaders
See themselves as architects of the future, not passive recipients of change
Let's Explore Quantum Futures Together
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