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Health and Healthcare Systems
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Jobs and the Future of Work
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The net is closing in on unauthorized fishing vessels, thanks to the all-seeing eye of orbiting satellites.
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A new World Economic Forum initiative aims to show how harnessing machine capabilities on every scale from domestic to planetary can ensure we don't exhaust the Earth's dwindling resources.
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