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The third in a series of Future Challenges Readers is published! “Help Wanted” covers the topic of unemployment, a plague sickening many of the world’s largest economies. The subject requires us to think about demographic change (Who should be working? For how long?), education (How do we train a workforce that […]
Aubrey de Grey is one of the world’s foremost voices on bio-gerontology. He may also be the only gerontologist whose work MIT would pay to see proven wrong; the university’s Technology Review has offered a prize to anyone who disproves his theories. Dr. de Grey was a scientist at Cambridge […]
At the Contemporary Carlowitz Summit, hosted by the Bertelsmann Foundation and the German Council for Sustainable Development, Future Challenges spoke with Klaus Töpfer (Interview in German). Töpfer is the former German Minister for the Environment and a former Executive Director of the UNEP. In our conversation, we discovered that he […]
This is a guest post by the team of learnstuff.com. The article has originally been published here. Thanks to extensive research and noticeable changes in weather and storm prevalence, it’s getting harder to turn a blind eye to the reality of climate change. Since the Industrial Age spurred the increasing usage […]
Three reasons Chavistas may stay in power in the short term, and three reasons they could lose it by 2020 The rumblings from Caracas started early in the morning. By 9:00am residents of the capital noted an inordinate military presence around the Miraflores Palace, the presidential office. By 11:00am Venezuelan […]
