Future

What Next For COVID After 5 Million Deaths?

With the world poised to hit more than five million people officially dead from the coronavirus, experts say the pandemic's future path will depend greatly on vaccinations.How Many Dead?The true number of fatalities is believed to be far higher than the five million based on daily reports provided by health authorities in each country.The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates the overall toll could be two to three times higher than official records due to the excess mortality linked

1 November 2021
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Can Humanity Grow Up?

The COVID-19 pandemic underscores just how tightly interwoven humanity has become. A single infected animal somewhere in China set in motion a chain reaction with effects that, nearly a year later, are still reverberating in every corner of the planet. This should not be particularly surprising. The history of pandemics tracks our unification as a species. The Black Death travelled on new trade routes forged between Europe and Asia in the Middle Ages.

16 November 2020
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The future of technology

The world is changing at a rapid pace. 20 years ago, no one could have predicted the scale of which smartphone, internet, virtual reality, blockchain and big data technologies – just to name a few – would have on our lives.But that hasn’t stopped others from looking at how technology will shape our future. Kindergarten drawings of flying cars and Star Wars-like futuristic buildings in outer space may come to mind.

24 March 2018
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