Notes

When you reflect on today's world and how it is changing, what gives you hope for the future and why?

The world is changing quicker than any time before. ... It's a universal phenomenon and happens all through the world, despite the fact that the speed and scale might fluctuate starting with one society then onto the next. The main considerations behind social change are either technology/innovation, financial/economic development, or change in climatic circumstances. Whenever you have hope, you are setting your confidence in the potential for something positive to occur. You are believing that making the right actions will make a positive outcome. Whenever you expect a superior future, you are putting trust in yourself and the younger generation to use sound judgment throughout everyday life.

Education is at the highest level it has ever been and it just keeps on evolving. The new pathways, connections, and communities that are being formed as we adjust to an evolving world. The desire to create and implement Indigenous and new technologies, social and conduct innovations, and policy tools for resolving society’s most pressing issues. The intense creativity of the youth and science fiction future they dream to create.

Part of the human imperative is to advance and innovate, but sometimes innovation also requires regulation to hold it back from having harmful effects. With the accelerating pace of innovative change, many industries have now taken the challenges and responsibility of regulating into their own hands—developing rules that industry members are expected to follow even if they do not have the force of law. This has the potential to both allow rapid technological innovation and rapid regulatory innovation to limit the negative consequences of new technology

There are going to be amazing things learned about the universe over the next decades, maybe reaching the point of answering the question as to whether life in the universe is extremely rare or common. But while that‘s exciting and deeply important to our perspective as humans in weeks like this, it seems trivial compared to the whole massive disruption and death and injustice thing. What gives me hope is the spread of opportunity and access to information and education to groups and places that historically didn‘t have those opportunities—increasing fairness and remedying injustice and also vastly increasing the pool of people who work to solve problems.

Despite all of that, the human species have contributed to a lot of the threats that we face today. We as humans do a lot of stupid things, but can think deeply with our big brains and are able to learn from experience. Dinosaurs, for instance, couldn't do this, they couldn't save themselves from the asteroid. I have no doubt that, somewhere out there among the billions of humans on our planet today, is the person that can figure out how to deal with climate change, by inventing new ways of harvesting non-traditional energy sources and making our societies more resilient. Let‘s hope that we can keep progressing to a more equal and just world, so that person/people will have the opportunities to use their brains to save us.

Present developments in science and technology, and continuous inventions point that future is brighter, bigger, and bold. People are continuously learning from their mistakes and the mistakes of others so that they could avoid them and do better.