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Synchronous Failure: The Real Danger of the 21st Century
The Robert J. Pelosky, Jr. Distinguished Speaker Series, The Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University, Washington, D.C.
Interview conducted by Ted Rutland of the webzine “Uncommon Good” on the subject of The Ingenuity Gap
Interview Conducted by Ted Rutland of "Uncommon Good" (Webzine) on the subject of The Ingenuity Gap.
Remarks at the Governor General’s Literary Awards Ceremony
What am I trying to say in The Ingenuity Gap? What are the book’s key points? Most generally, the book argues that in many aspects of our lives we’re producing immense problems for ourselves far faster than we’re solving them. We’re embedded in a set of enormously complex, tightly interlinked systems — economic, political, technological, and ecological. We don’t really understand how these systems work, so we can’t manage them effectively.
The Ingenuity Gap in a Fragmented World
This morning I’m going to talk about “The Ingenuity Gap in a Fragmented World.” I’ll ask whether humanity can meet the ever more complex and fast-paced challenges it’s creating for itself.
The Ingenuity Gap in a Fragmented World
I’ll ask whether humanity can meet the ever more complex and fast-paced challenges it’s creating for itself. At the global level, these challenges range from climate change and chronic instability of the international economy to continent-wide pandemics of TB and AIDS; and at the national level, they include widespread homelessness in our great cities, chronic health care crises, and widening gaps between the super-rich and everyone else.
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