She would initiate three races to the top from the federal level—with prizes of $100 million, $75 million, and $50 million—to vastly accelerate innovations in social technologies: Which state can come...
Robots can now milk cows. Oil prices have fallen globally, meaning both the petro-states and those indirectly propped up by them are weakened. At the same time, slower growth in China has lately shrun...
President Obama gave voice to exactly this sentiment in the speech he delivered as the first American president to visit Hiroshima, on May 27, 2016: Science allows us to communicate across the seas an...
President Obama advocated in his Hiroshima speech: What makes our species unique [is that] we’re not bound by genetic code to repeat the mistakes of the past. We can learn. We can choose. We can tell...
One of the strengths of Labor Zionism had always been its strong pragmatic outlook, its philosophy that a new reality can be built only by careful planning and then constructing things brick by brick,...
On local city councils being effective: The job of the council is to get together and debate and discuss. But you do it in a way that preserves the relationships so that we can get together next week...
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Obama added, is to see our growing interdependence as a cause for peaceful cooperation and not violent competition. To define our nations not by our capacity to destroy but by what we build. And perha...
Los flujos de información y conocimiento resultantes están haciendo que el mundo no sólo esté interconectado e hiperconectado, sino que sea también interdependiente: todo el mundo en todas partes es a...
Looking back on all my interviews for this book, how many times in how many different contexts did I hear about the vital importance of having a caring adult or mentor in every young person’s life? Ho...
Lin Wells, who teaches strategy at the National Defense University. According to Wells, it is fanciful to suppose that you can opine about or explain this world by clinging to the inside or outside of...
I asked him what he did. He said his name was John Lord and that he was in the software business. What kind of software? I asked. He said that his company’s goal was to make lawyers obsolete wherever...
Humphrey famously declared: My friends, to those who say that we are rushing this issue of civil rights, I say to them we are one hundred seventy-two years late. To those who say that this civil right...
Girls, when I was growing up, my parents used to say to me, ‘Tom, finish your dinner—people in China and India are starving.’ My advice to you is: Girls, finish your homework—people in China and India...
Gates put it to me this way: For good stuff to happen, it requires a lot of things to go well—you need many pieces to get stability right. None of it is going to happen overnight, but we need to work...
Chúng ta quen nhìn dân chủ hóa như một sự kiện - giống như hình ảnh bức tường Berlin sụp đổ - nhưng thực ra dân chủ hóa là cả một quá trình.
By studying the pattern of footsteps, the farmers were able to gain early detection of eight different cow diseases, enabling early treatment and improving the overall health and longevity of the herd...
But the ancients believed that there was wisdom in patience and that wisdom comes from patience … Patience wasn’t just the absence of speed. It was space for reflection and thought. We are generating...
Before taking out my blank sheet of paper, though, I did one vitally important thing: I looked for a mentor. I asked myself, who is the person with the most experience absorbing climate changes and re...
Average is officially over. When I graduated from college I got to find a job; my girls have to invent theirs. I attended college to learn skills for life, and lifelong learning for me afterward was a...