With a glut of information at our fingertips, three authors not only discuss the challenge of determining whom we can trust but also offer some helpful guidelines.
What kind of world will our children inherit? Today’s environmental problems call for a long-term global solution—one that upends a current business-as-usual focus on near-term benefit.
Piers Millett of Oxford University’s Future of Humanity Institute talks about potential global biological catastrophes stemming from such risks as bioterrorism, pandemic disease and genetic manipulation.
Insight Video: The appointment of Mohammad Shtayyeh as Palestinian prime minister suggests the possibility of renewed momentum in the Israeli-Palestinian peace process.
Both Stephen Hawking and Martin Rees have expressed optimism about the role of science and technology in resolving humanity’s overarching questions and problems. Vision reviews their recent books.
