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Positive futures

2025/6/21
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LSE: Public lectures and events

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Aditya Kumar
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David Walter
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Emma
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Ewan Grant
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Isabel Losada
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Michael Muthukrishna
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Neil Lee
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Roger Highfield
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Suhair Khan
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Thomas Hobbit
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Michael Muthukrishna: 尽管当前世界面临战争、经济放缓和社会分裂等挑战,但我仍然对未来充满希望。首先,我接触到许多积极、充满激情、厌倦一成不变且略带愤怒的年轻人,他们正在采取行动改变现状。其次,我们拥有可能彻底改变游戏规则的新技术,例如核能和太阳能,这些技术有潜力实现清洁能源的富足。第三,我们面临的许多问题不在于技术,而在于社会层面,是社会软件出了问题,我们需要新的发展模式和更可靠的社会科学。 Roger Highfield: 保持乐观对我们有益。研究表明,最乐观的女性比最不乐观的女性活得更长。我对未来感到乐观,因为新技术推广的经济模型总是低估了成本,我们有望节省数万亿美元。太阳能就是一个典型的例子,现在它正在产生巨大的影响。此外,英国政府正在谈论在2040年建立一个原型发电聚变工厂,我认为我们开始真正乐观地认为聚变是有前景的。积极临界点也值得关注,例如挪威在电动汽车的采用方面处于世界领先地位。 Suhair Khan: 我对艺术和人文学科在科学创新中的作用感兴趣。我们有机会将其他思维方式和其他信仰体系融入技术中,以更广泛、更周到、更少提取的方式开发未来的技术。像人工智能这样的技术已经深深地嵌入到我们的生活和设备中,以及我们如何构建自己的未来,我们有机会寻找其他形式的灵感和想象力,超越某种科幻小说的想象力。 Isabel Losada: 我感兴趣的是学习我们可以作为个体采取哪些行动来发挥作用,然后去做。我不明白为什么每个人都不进行道德银行活动,根据《道德消费者》杂志,该国最符合道德规范的两家银行是Triodos和Co-op Smile。我们可以参与的另一件非常积极的事情是英国的荒野再生运动和生物多样性的增加。化石燃料行业即将走向衰落,但石油公司正在试图向我们推销塑料,下次你看到化石燃料行业向你出售一些完全荒谬的东西时,不要购买他们的塑料垃圾。此外,我们需要开始关注数字污染,请取消尽可能多的订阅。

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Despite global challenges like war, economic slowdown, and social divisions, there are reasons for optimism. Young people's engagement, new technologies (such as nuclear and solar energy, and potentially fusion), and breakthroughs in social models offer hope for a better future. The author highlights the importance of addressing social issues and improving development models to create lasting positive change.
  • The Industrial Revolution marked a turning point for humanity, with progress in various areas, until the early 1970s when several issues emerged.
  • Young people are motivated and taking action to address societal problems.
  • New technologies, particularly in clean energy, offer potential for game-changing progress.
  • Social issues and broken social models need to be addressed to achieve sustainable development.

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Contributor(s): Roger Highfield, Suhair Khan, Isabel Losada, Professor Michael Muthukrishna | Where should we look for optimism about the future? Our final panel come together to share some of the ideas, innovations and discoveries that could shape the world to come for the better.