Breakthrough: The Promise of Frontier Technologies for Sustainable Development

Looking into the future is always difficult and often problematic - but sometimes it’s useful to imagine what innovations might resolve today’s problems and make tomorrow better. In this book, 15 distinguished international experts examine how technology will affect the human condition and natural world within the next ten years.

One overall takeaway is that gradualist approaches will not achieve those goals by 2030. Breakthroughs will be necessary in science, in the development of new products and services, and in institutional systems. Each of the experts responded with stories that reflect big ambitions for what the future may bring. Their stories are not projections or forecasts as to what will happen; they are reasoned and reasonable conjectures about what could happen. The editors’ intent is to provide a glimpse into the possibilities for the future of sustainable development.

At a time when many people worry about stalled progress on the economic, social, and environmental challenges of sustainable development, Breakthrough is a reminder that the promise of a better future is within our grasp, across a range of domains. It will interest anyone who wonders about the world’s economic, social, and environmental future.

• | Author: Homi Kharas, John W. McArthur, Izumi Ohno
• | Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
• | Publication Date: Jan 25, 2022
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• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9780815739654
• | ISBN-10: 0815739656