A decade on, IGBP in collaboration with the Stockholm Resilience Centre has reassessed and updated the Great Acceleration indicators, first published in the IGBP synthesis, Global Change and... Read more
There is clearly something wrong with pharmaceutical innovation. Antibiotic-resistant infections sicken more than two million Americans every year and kill at least 23,000. The World Health... Read more
Our global networks have generated many benefits and new opportunities. However, they have also established highways for failure propagation, which can ultimately result in man-made disaster... Read more
IN the 1960s, mainframe computers posed a significant technological challenge to common notions of privacy. That’s when the federal government started putting tax returns into those giant ma... Read more
Space: the beneficial frontier. That was the underlying theme of a panel called “The Future of Space,” which I moderated at the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting at Davos, Switzerland. I... Read more
You would think we humans would have an innate alliance with water. As Isaac continues to pour down rain on the Gulf Coast and test New Orleans’s new flood-prevention system, there are lesso... Read more
Can we devise strategies to maximize the upside of technology while minimizing the downside? We’re entering a new age in which countries, cities, corporations, and online communities all com... Read more
Innovation Ecosystem On global and local scales, there is a large shift in how novel ideas and discoveries can quickly establish market relevance and commercial significance. The acquisition... Read more
China is the only real, large market in the world where game-changing sustainability is emerging and has the potential to truly scale The corridors at Davos are buzzing with discussio... Read more
Michael Spence, a Nobel laureate in economics and a professor at NYU, thinks he’s found a breakthrough idea on creating jobs. FORTUNE — One common refrain heard at this year... Read more