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Visions for Tomorrow: How You Can Save The World, presented by SCI FI


	Education The public school assembly line is broken What happens when one size fits all becomes one size fits none? If you’re trying on a pair of stretch pants, it’s an awkward sartorial moment. When you’re talking about the education of our children, however, it’s a disaster... POSTED Monday, October 20, 2008 Solution sharing, and the obscured world of good news In his marvelous book “Better,” Atul Gawande tells the tale of obstetric forceps. Invented in the 17th century to help stuck babies get unstuck during labor, they promised to be a valuable addition to the medical toolkit — so... POSTED Monday, October 6, 2008 The perpetual challenge facing children: finding a place The young folks entering kindergarten these past few weeks are a fascinating group. Born at the dawn of the twenty-first century, they will retire — if they retire at all — in 2073. Many could live into the twenty-second... POSTED Wednesday, October 1, 2008 Memo on saving the world: the Copenhagen Consensus If you want to save the world, you have only so much money, time and attention. So the question is - what effort should you throw yourself into that provides the biggest bang for the buck? The Copenhagen Consensus... POSTED Monday, September 29, 2008 Modern communication and literacy — can't we have both? One of the most important ways to work for a better future is to improve communications between and among people. With all the instant media available today, we could foresee a future in which we can reach out to... POSTED Monday, September 15, 2008 No Child Left Behind: the experiment, the failure, and what we need to do now On the first day of February 1966, President Lyndon B. Johnson had a phone conversation with Senator Eugene McCarthy in which he hoped to tone down McCarthy’s criticism of America’s escalating military involvement in Vietnam. Johnson, clearly frustrated by... POSTED Wednesday, September 3, 2008 The humanitarian path is one of self actualization Well, hello there! Smile. Good timing. Yes, I have had lots of thoughts out here, most fantastical with occasional but incomplete reality testing. There is a great deal of buzz these days over things combining, converging and emerging, and... POSTED Monday, September 1, 2008 The Earth will be just fine, thank you The grand myth of environmentalism is that it’s all about saving the Earth. It’s not. The Earth will be just fine. Environmentalism is all about saving ourselves. That may seem a bit counter-intuitive; after all, the Earth is certainly... POSTED Monday, August 18, 2008 We Cannot Let Science and Innovation Fall by The Wayside Science has always mattered to those of us old enough to realize how much society has achieved in a relatively short amount of time. The question becomes: are we creating a culture to ensure that the hearts and minds... POSTED Monday, August 4, 2008 Do we no longer believe in a better tomorrow? I wrote the following as part of an oped directed at the media industry. My profound belief is that we need to give people sense of vision and possibility. They no longer can imagine what a better future might... POSTED Monday, July 28, 2008 Opening up new horizons for solar energy, not a moment too soon Recently, MIT announced the launch of an interdisciplinary, faculty-led study of the future of solar energy. The study will focus on four key solar technologies: photovoltaics, solar heating and cooling, solar thermal power, and production of fuels from the... POSTED Monday, July 28, 2008 Understanding the steps toward improving tomorrow's schools On a recent trip to hunt up something for dinner, I popped into a food store that recently opened in my neighborhood. It's one of those new mega markets, about the size of an airplane hangar, that's designed to... POSTED Monday, July 28, 2008 The future of education The current system of education in the U.S. and most of the industrialized countries revolves around a factory mentality that was designed to serve the industrial era. Just as the assembly line worked for producing goods, it was thought... POSTED Monday, July 28, 2008