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…
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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…
A New National Purpose: Innovation Can Power the Future of Britain
February saw the publication of a joint report by Tony Blair and William Hague, advocating nothing less than a “fundamental reshaping of the state”. “A New National Purpose” seeks to…
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…
Why we are optimists - 2022
It has been a rough year. We’d like to brighten up your thoughts by sharing a few things that make us optimistic, from 2022. Most important is that the serious…