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Inlägg av Maikailoa » 08 apr 2013, 21:18
X Factors from Nature
Developed in partnership with the editors of Nature, a leading
science journal, the chapter on “X Factors” looks beyond the
landscape of 50 global risks to alert decision-makers to five
emerging game-changers:
-- Runaway climate change: Is it possible that we have already
passed a point of no return and that Earth’s atmosphere is
tipping rapidly into an inhospitable state?
-- Significant cognitive enhancement: Ethical dilemmas akin
to doping in sports could start to extend into daily working life;
an arms race in the neural “enhancement” of combat troops
could also ensue.
-- Rogue deployment of geoengineering: Technology is now
being developed to manipulate the climate; a state or private
individual could use it unilaterally.
-- Costs of living longer: Medical advances are prolonging life,
but long-term palliative care is expensive. Covering the costs
associated with old age could be a struggle.
-- Discovery of alien life: Proof of life’s existence elsewhere in
the universe could have profound psychological implications
for human belief systems.
Global Risks 2013 Eighth Edition
www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_GlobalRisks_Report_2013.pdf
X Factors from Nature
Developed in partnership with the editors of Nature, a leading
science journal, the chapter on “X Factors” looks beyond the
landscape of 50 global risks to alert decision-makers to five
emerging game-changers:
-- Runaway climate change: Is it possible that we have already
passed a point of no return and that Earth’s atmosphere is
tipping rapidly into an inhospitable state?
-- Significant cognitive enhancement: Ethical dilemmas akin
to doping in sports could start to extend into daily working life;
an arms race in the neural “enhancement” of combat troops
could also ensue.
-- Rogue deployment of geoengineering: Technology is now
being developed to manipulate the climate; a state or private
individual could use it unilaterally.
-- Costs of living longer: Medical advances are prolonging life,
but long-term palliative care is expensive. Covering the costs
associated with old age could be a struggle.
-- Discovery of alien life: Proof of life’s existence elsewhere in
the universe could have profound psychological implications
for human belief systems.
Global Risks 2013 Eighth Edition
www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_GlobalRisks_Report_2013.pdf