Other advances that point to an abundance

Contrary to what many believe, big businesses contribute more to alleviating global poverty.

• They develop cheaper products for people at the bottom of the income pyramid - around four billion people. This is a huge potential market and the opportunity to make a profit while raising the...

Access to education is a major global problem. 

Those students with access to education follow an outdated framework that does not provide students with the skills needed to handle the problems of the twenty-first century.

ICT could offer a solution to address both issues of quality a...

Access to biotechnology is multiplying the potential to find innovative solutions to food, energy and other global problems.

• Advances in genetic engineering provide solutions that can feed an ever-increasing population. 
• Biotechnology is also used for other applications such as...

Nanotechnology allows us to create new materials leading to major advances in many areas. Nanotechnology involves building things on an atomic scale and create anocomposites, even tiny programmable assemblers, called nanomachines. These nanomachines can build other nanomaterials and create greate...

The world consists of complex systems where changes in one area can impact another area. For example, population changes in one species affect living and survival conditions for others. 

While some systems may seem to exacerbate current problems, they also present great opportunities becaus...

We live in turbulent times. When we glance at the headlines, it is enough to put anybody on edge. However, a quick look at history shows that progress continues through the good and the bad times. Global living standards will continue to improve regardless of the horrors in the h...

Underlying influences tend to push us towards a pessimistic view of the future.

• The amygdala is always looking for threats in our environment. When triggered, it starts the fight or flight response. But modern society threats are probabilistic. For example, the economy...

A stigma is attached to failure, and many people will do anything to avoid it. This can prevent innovation. 

Failure should be viewed as part of a longer learning curve and an important stepping stone toward innovation.