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Universities Post COVID-19: Quo Vadis?

While many universities used technology as a stopgap measure to continue the delivery of education during the pandemic, few are reassessing what long-term measures are necessary to make their institutions more resilient in the face of future crises

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Worsening Conflict Environment Most Significant Threat to Africa’s Prosperity

Africa’s quest for lasting and sustainable prosperity was dealt a massive blow by the Covid crisis of 2020. The African Development Bank estimates that the continent’s economy contracted by 2.1 percent last year, a sharp contrast from 3 percent growt

Elon Musk: AI will be like being visited by super-intelligent aliens
Future & Progress
Apr 08, 2018

Artificial intelligence will be both an aid and a threat to humanity, according to tech and space entrepreneur Elon Musk, who says that in the near future having a discussion with an artificial intelligent machine would be like “being visited by supe

Will governments ever fully accept bitcoin?  ​
Future & Progress
Mar 12, 2018

There is no shortage of hype and speculation surrounding the value of bitcoin. The virtual currency is either the next big thing or simply the latest in a long line of tech bubbles soon to burst, depending on your point of view.

Just how secure is bitcoin?
Future & Progress
Mar 12, 2018

Bitcoin has enjoyed a startling rise in value since it first appeared in 2009. Then it was valued at $0.5cents. It hit a high of just above $18,000 per coin in December 2017, but it is highly volatile and fell by more than $4,000 in one week.

This is a hearing app that can screen people in rural areas
Future & Progress
Dec 07, 2017

Hearing loss is a major contributor to the global burden of disease, affecting over 360 million people, but the greatest burden of hearing loss is in developing world regions such as sub-Saharan Africa, South-east Asia, and the Asia Pacific – home to

Machine Learning Is Making it Difficult to Tell Humans and Computers Apart
Future & Progress
Dec 07, 2017

"For common sense to be effective it needs to be amenable to answer a variety of hypotheticals — a faculty that we call imagination."

Could we soon have a host of habitable alien worlds?
Future & Progress
Dec 07, 2017

Researchers from NASA's Goddard Institute have proposed a new way of looking at the habitability of exoplanets. Instead of relying on the usual one-dimensional approach, they considered observing a candidate planet using three dimensions.

The Next Most Powerful Supercomputer in the U.S. Is Almost Complete
Future & Progress
Dec 07, 2017

At the Oak Ridge National Labs, experts are building what's expected to be the most powerful supercomputer in the world — or at least, in the U.S. Built together with IBM and powered by NVIDIA, the Summit supercomputer will be operational in 2018.

Magnetic Particles Could Lead to an Entirely New Form of Data Storage
Future & Progress
Dec 06, 2017

New research has shown that an exotic kind of magnetic behavior discovered just a few years ago holds great promise as a way of storing data — one that could overcome fundamental limits that might otherwise be signaling the end of “Moore’s Law,” whic

This is why ash could be critical to securing your next phone upgrade
Future & Progress
Dec 06, 2017

When the last mine in the small town of Cinovic in the Czech Republic closed in 1993, not only did the workers lose their jobs, the region lost an major economic lifeline.

Dubai is steadily moving towards Net-Zero by 2050

Dubai is steadily moving towards Net-Zero by 2050

The UAE stands out as a frontrunner in the global shift towards clean and renewable energy. Securing the second position in the Energy Transition category of the Green Future Index 2023.

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Government in 2071 is an initiative launched by the World Government Summit with the vision of preparing governments for the future.

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Reflecting on a decade of shaping global governance, the 10th Anniversary Book is a tribute to the transformative insights and groundbreaking ideas that emerged over the World Governments Summit's impactful 10 year history.