教育与技能
How technology can bridge the skills gap it created
The future of work is rapidly changing. With the rise of machines and automation, we need to empower our workforces with 21st-century skills to help them remain employable. But how do we ...
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Robot doctors, a rocker-designed Mars rover, parenting lessons from snails - few scientific marvels escape the notice of Joe Palca, science correspondent for National Public Radio (NPR). ...
新兴技术
A new era of computing is coming. How can we make sure it is sustainable?
Eighty years ago, Alan Turing laid down the mathematical basis of computation. Just a decade later, John von Neumann made computing practical. Advances in information technology since the...
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You may never have to queue in an airport again. Here's why
Sitting around the dinner table recently at a family gathering my sister, who lives in Paris, was venting her frustrations about the queues she experienced recently at the electronic bord...
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Scientists can lead the fight against fake news
We are living in a world with a worrying new trend – anti-science sentiment is growing, and “fake news” is posing a threat, as a steady and insidious flow of untrue or misleading stories ...
新兴技术
Machine learning is tearing down language barriers. What does this mean for trade?
We all know what “intelligence” means and what “artificial” means; yet, put them together into “artificial intelligence” and we get confusion, trepidation or maybe even laughter. The phra...
Technology is a force for peace and prosperity. Don’t let its challenges obscure this
The American biologist E.O. Wilson observed of the modern world that we are “drowning in information, while starving for wisdom”.
The key to safety in autonomous vehicles is the right data, not more of it
Consumer-viable autonomous vehicles (AVs) have evolved from far-out fantasy talk ten years ago to actual market opportunity with billions of dollars of investment backing by the world’s t...
公平、多样性和包容性
Is there a new debt crisis on the horizon?
The US Federal Reserve governor, Jerome Powell, stated in the recent Jackson Hole meetings of global central bankers that the US economy is doing well at present and confirmed the continu...
经济增长
Technology can help us meet some of our greatest needs. Here's how
Global society is at an unusual juncture. Even as historic crises and unmet societal needs deeply affect the human condition, many have unbounded enthusiasm for the transformative problem...
教育与技能
How to apply private-firm organisation to public institutions
It goes without saying that managing huge projects is a complex and demanding process that requires continuous scrutiny. Doing so at a brand new public organization on an extremely tight ...
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What are the risks and returns of cryptocurrencies?
There has been a great deal of attention on cryptocurrencies both in the academic world and among practitioners. So far, academic attention has mostly focused on developing theoretical mo...
经济增长
11 future lessons we can learn from the history of business
Contrary to received wisdom, the rate of change is not increasing in business and society as quickly as people think.
企业向善
We can't abandon global cooperation, but it needs an update
Countries cooperate if they perceive it to be in their best interests, both economically and politically. Global cooperation in the aftermath of World War II—through a system of rules, sh...
自然与生物多样性
From cheeseburgers to coral reefs, the science of decision-making can change the world
Daniel Kahneman, the psychologist who won the Nobel Prize in Economics, credits some recent public policy successes to the application of behavioural science. He helped establish this fie...