Could we grow corn without using pesticides, or wipe out disease with terminator mosquitos? The technology already exists, but what are the ethical consequences of deploying it?
Bhaskar Chakravorti looks at the recent demonetisation in India, and whether they can embrace digital.
Medical nanobots, autonomous vehicles and other incredible breakthroughs. But will they bring people together?
The license for all forms of generalized hate comes from the same place. This is true in all echo-chambers — whether religious, secular, right-wing or left-wing.
Trade gives people a tangible interest in each other’s wellbeing and offers a path to inclusive economic growth, but only if we adopt the right policies.
For many countries, trade costs and wait times are unacceptably high. We need to break the bottlenecks at the borders.
Learning Kung-fu like Keanu Reeves in The Matrix. Controlling a fighter jet with your mind. Downloading a language straight to your brain. These ideas may not be as crazy as they sound.
The question is not how to remove humans from the chain altogether, but how to embed them more seamlessly.
From planes that fly themselves to prosthetics that communicate directly with doctors - manufacturing and production will be completely transformed by the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
Evaluating the impact of female leaders across the globe and their decision making.
In 2003, the opening line of the so-called European Security Strategy was as follows: Europe has never been so prosperous, so secure nor so free.
It is not just a case of producing more food, but producing healthy food, and ensuring it reaches the people who need it most, says Corinna Hawkes.
Climate change is the biggest problem we have ever had to face, as communities, countries and the planet. This means it is an expensive problem given that adjusting economies to limit gre...
The challenge for all humanitarians is to discover the positive opportunities in disruption and to denounce the dangerous downsides, writes Neal Keny-Guyer.
From an immigrant turned Canadian senator and the head of the Red Cross, among others.
