Why the Future Doesn't Need Us

Why The Future Doesn't Need Us - Wired magazine article written by Bill Joy. Article “Why the Future Doesn't Need Us” in English Wikipedia has 26.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 15 references and 6 sections.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that (English) language version.

Since the creation of article “Why the Future Doesn't Need Us”, its content was written by 81 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 137 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 19 times in English Wikipedia and cited 39 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #16096 in April 2005
• Global: #49159 in April 2005

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #142197 in November 2020
• Global: #253075 in November 2020

There are 6 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Why the Future Doesn't Need Us		26.3368
2	Arabic (ar) لماذا لا يحتاجنا المستقبل؟		26.1743
3	Russian (ru) Почему мы не нужны будущему		24.2632
4	Spanish (es) Por qué el futuro no nos necesita		24.1668
5	French (fr) Pourquoi le futur n'a pas besoin de nous		10.9307
6	Persian (fa) چرا آینده به ما نیازی ندارد		2.887

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "Why the Future Doesn't Need Us" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Why the Future Doesn't Need Us		632 766
2	Russian (ru) Почему мы не нужны будущему		39 749
3	French (fr) Pourquoi le futur n'a pas besoin de nous		24 673
4	Persian (fa) چرا آینده به ما نیازی ندارد		4 236
5	Spanish (es) Por qué el futuro no nos necesita		1 376
6	Arabic (ar) لماذا لا يحتاجنا المستقبل؟		396

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Why the Future Doesn't Need Us" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Why the Future Doesn't Need Us		2 355
2	Russian (ru) Почему мы не нужны будущему		163
3	French (fr) Pourquoi le futur n'a pas besoin de nous		76
4	Spanish (es) Por qué el futuro no nos necesita		40
5	Persian (fa) چرا آینده به ما نیازی ندارد		15
6	Arabic (ar) لماذا لا يحتاجنا المستقبل؟		14

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "Why the Future Doesn't Need Us" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Why the Future Doesn't Need Us		81
2	French (fr) Pourquoi le futur n'a pas besoin de nous		30
3	Russian (ru) Почему мы не нужны будущему		17
4	Persian (fa) چرا آینده به ما نیازی ندارد		4
5	Spanish (es) Por qué el futuro no nos necesita		3
6	Arabic (ar) لماذا لا يحتاجنا المستقبل؟		2

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "Why the Future Doesn't Need Us" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Arabic (ar) لماذا لا يحتاجنا المستقبل؟		0
2	English (en) Why the Future Doesn't Need Us		0
3	Spanish (es) Por qué el futuro no nos necesita		0
4	Persian (fa) چرا آینده به ما نیازی ندارد		0
5	French (fr) Pourquoi le futur n'a pas besoin de nous		0
6	Russian (ru) Почему мы не нужны будущему		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "Why the Future Doesn't Need Us" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Why the Future Doesn't Need Us		19
2	French (fr) Pourquoi le futur n'a pas besoin de nous		6
3	Persian (fa) چرا آینده به ما نیازی ندارد		5
4	Russian (ru) Почему мы не нужны будущему		4
5	Arabic (ar) لماذا لا يحتاجنا المستقبل؟		3
6	Spanish (es) Por qué el futuro no nos necesita		2

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic لماذا لا يحتاجنا المستقبل؟
en	English Why the Future Doesn't Need Us
es	Spanish Por qué el futuro no nos necesita
fa	Persian چرا آینده به ما نیازی ندارد
fr	French Pourquoi le futur n'a pas besoin de nous
ru	Russian Почему мы не нужны будущему

Best Rank

English: #142197 11.2020

Global: #253075 11.2020

Best Rank

English: #16096 04.2005

Global: #49159 04.2005

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