One of the critical challenges that the climate crisis brings is managing scarce resources, most notably water. Droughts, storms and floods are all expected to increase in all global warming…
Author: Huw Williams
Is it time to start worrying about Artificial General Intelligence?
Concerns about the risks associated with run-away artificial intelligence superseding human intelligent (“The Singularity”) have been around for many years, with scientists as eminent as Stephen Hawkins expressing alarm. At…
World Values Survey
When exploring major drivers of future change, the focus all too frequently is on technological innovations or short-term political tensions. But both the adoption of technology and pressures on governments…
Cut+Paste at The Crick Institute
We have had Biotechnology as one of SAMI’s main global Drivers of Change for many years. The invention of the genome editing tool CRISPR/Cas-9, which won its inventors the Nobel…
Adaptive Plans – a dynamic approach to putting scenarios into action
How do you plan in a world that is so uncertain? How do you prepare when so many different futures could emerge? The experience of the last few years has…
Hype and rates of Technology Adoption
Technology advances at a remarkable rate, but even more dramatic claims are made for some innovations which never in the end deliver. Some are just a ridiculous idea in the…