Book Reviews: The State of the Future 2015-16
In The State of Future 2015-16 report the Millennium Project has provided a framework to assess our prospects, both locally and globally on the 15 Global Challenges.
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Food Security
Video Friday: Ron Shigeta Chief Science Officer at IndieBio
Ron Shigeta is the Chief Science Officer at IndieBio, a seed stage Biotechnology Accelerator in San Francisco.
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Can GMO Foods End World Hunger?
According to the World Food Program, some 795 million people – one in nine people on earth – don’t have enough food to lead a healthy active life.
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Not all GMO Plants are Created Equal
It may be more sensible to judge a plant by its specific traits rather than the way it was produced – GMO or not.
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Synthetic Meat — Passes Taste Tests, But Still Five Years Away from Commercial Availability
Modern Meadow believes that increasing livestock herds is not the answer. There is a better way and our London hamburger taste test of last year is showing us the way. Growing meat from stem cells cultures at an industrial scale is the answer.
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Rowbot Robot Tends to Farmers’ Fields
No part of our highly technological economy today is free of being rethought by applying automation in the form of robots.
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The new technologies that will change human civilization as we know it
Where are technologies heading in the next 30 years ? How will they affect our lifestyle and human society ?
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Abundance at the Bottom: Algae Based Nutritional Supplement and Sustainable Bio-Fuel Production
While these technologies have been utilized for decades on a stand-alone basis, we will be the first to integrate them together so that the byproducts of each process become key inputs for the next. The total system is able to provide entire communities with ultra-clean burning ethanol cooking fuel, renewable electricity for area clinics, schools, shops/businesses and homes, high-protein animal ...
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