Lectures on global issues

How technology can enable us to deconstruct bureaucracies, making them both more efficient and more democraticHow technology can enable us to deconstruct bureaucracies, making them both more efficient and more democratic as well as enable us to transform the physically, geographically and socially marginal from welfare cases into autonomous self supporting individuals.

Given whats in the R&D pipeline the “Energy/Environment Conundrum” will be solved by 2030 

"Motech” is the Hebrew word for sweetheart and refers to personal services geared to making us feel better.Israel has divided the work market into four categories: Hi-tech, low tech, no tech and “motech” (the Hebrew word for sweetheart). “Motech” refers to very personal services geared to making us feel better. Hi-tech of course gets the most publicity because...

What might happen and what could happen 

No social institution has been less affected by technological advances and the requirements of modern economy and global citizenship than education. Over the past century and a half, farmers, bankers, industrial workers, doctors businessmen have all been forced to radically change the way they carry out their professions. By contrast, teachers from the 19th century would have little difficulty...

There is no healthcare system; there is a disease care system. We are responsible for our own health. 

Fifteen billion people with American standard of living and minimal negative environmental impact 

Prophets of doom, from Malthus to Ehrlich to ‘Club of Rome’, have always been proven wrong by human imagination. 

In a world of real time change Strategic Futurist Thinking is a necessary survival tool. We must learn how to escape the limitations of past knowledge in order to envisage alternative futures that differ qualitatively from the past. We are all limited by what we know and the fact that everything we know comes from the past: we were taught, we learnt, we experienced. But the problems we face...

The 19th century was the European century; the 20th century was the American century and the 21st century could be the women’s century. This is a conclusion drawn from a combination of several factors: the nature of the global economy, the particular qualities of women and the requirements of world development (especially as they pertain to closing the gap between the developed and...