I want to design from the future, and for the students to design with their heads in 2050. What would it be like to time travel back to 2018, 2020, 2025 from that future to anticipate the needs and understand resources trends, so that we can all live well together long into the future.
Tomáš Sedláček, economist and university lecturer, is known for the bestseller Economics of Good and Evil, published by the Oxford University Press (2011). He provides insight to why people voted for Trump, our changing civilization, and why work will be leisure.
Amir Abo-Shaeer, Founder of Dos Pueblos Engineering Academy and the first high school MacArthur Fellow teacher, discusses how DPEA prepares students for careers that don't exist today.
Marcello Palazzi: Civic & Economic Development BY PAKSY PLACKIS-CHENG Marcello Palazzi, Stanford University Fellow; Co-Founder of B-Corp Europe; and Co-Founder of Progressio Foundation, spoke about his longstanding work in pursuit of “civic and entrepreneurial” solutions. Palazzi also offered the keynote presentation at [...]
UCSB’s Materials Research Laboratory Science Symposium BY CHELSEA CATANIA On February 2-3 at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), the Materials Research Laboratory (MRL) held the annual Materials Research Outreach Program (MROP) Symposium. MROP was founded in 1999 to [...]
Prediction Technology: Helping to Prevent or Solve Problems […]
Lessons from Nobel Laureates BY LEAH KURITZKY "If you don't find intense joy from discoveries, even small discoveries, then you are in the wrong business, because this is currency we work for." - Peter Agre (photo) "Contrary to popular belief, [...]