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Inside Alphabet’s Moonshot Factory
Entrepreneurship & InnovationAstro Teller, head of Alphabet’s innovation lab, explains why world-changing ideas need the right combination of audacity, efficiency and a lot of patience.
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Europe’s Digital Future
Society & PoliticsMeet the EuroStack: Innovation economist Francesca Bria illustrates how the concept can make Europe more resilient and prosperous, creating global digital champions.
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The Tech Way to Fight Cancer
HealthCalifornian health startup Earli aims to outsmart one of the deadliest diseases with the help of AI, biology and engineering. CEO Cyriac Roeding shares details.
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Recent Articles
- Digital & Technology
Can AI Unlock the Secrets of Animal Talk?
With machine learning systems trained on the sounds of nature, the Earth Species Project aims to decode how different species communicate. What can we expect of an “animal GPT”?Read the Article - Social & Politics
“Democracy Has a Delivery Problem”
Why is trust in government so low, where does widespread anger at politics come from? Lisa Witter, Co-founder of Apolitical, shares ideas on how to strengthen democracy and encourage citizen…Read the Article - Entrepreneurship & Innovation
Circularity: “The Biggest Obstacle Is Managing Radical Change”
Joe Iles, Programme Lead at the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, explains how the circular economy can gain traction – in business and our personal lives.Read the Article - Art & Design
“We Need Stories that Show Human Capacity for Action”
Harvard professor Martin Puchner describes how ancient links between literature and environmentalism offer insights for a better future.Read the Article - Life & Science
Biodiversity: “We Have to Put a Price on Natural Capital”
Preserving the planet’s resources is not just essential to our own survival, it will be good business to lead the way, Matthew Gould, CEO of the Zoological Society of London,…Read the Article
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“I had faith in this idea that chess could give a child from the slums and poverty an intellectual identity. And I picked up a chess board and I put it in front of them.”
“The winners in AI are whoever have the most data. And the good news is that the good guys have way more data than the bad guys have.”
“Best practice thinking, that mindset is about locking the future into the past. It’s about learning from the past and continuing to perpetuate that.”
“We need to think about the role of women and more diverse governance because complexity is solved through diversity.”
“Over half of the world’s GDP is dependent on nature and the services it provides. Yet our human activity is pushing ecosystems towards irreversible tipping points.”
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