Breakthrough - The Promise of Frontier Technologies for Sustainable Development

Harnessing technology for a better future
At a time when many people worry about stalled progress on the economic, social, and environmental challenges of sustainable development, Breakthrough is a reminder that the promise of a better future is within our grasp, across a range of domains. It will interest anyone who wonders about the world's economic, social, and environmental future.

List of contents

Contents:
Acknowledgments
1. Breakthroughs: Why We Need Them for Sustainable Development
Homi Kharas, John W. McArthur, and Izumi Ohno
2. Breakthrough Technologies for Pandemic Preparedness
Yolanda Botii-Lodovico and Pardis Sabeti
3. Fixing the Real "World Wide Web": Breakthroughs at the Interface of Food, Agriculture, and Large-Scale Computation
Zachary Bogue
4. Too Cheap to Meter: The Promise of Unstored Solar Power
Vijay Modi
5. Interspecies Money
Jonathan Ledgard
6. Predictable Disasters: AI and the Future of Crisis Response
Tarek Ghani and Grant Gordon
7. How AgriTech Is Transforming Traditional Agriculture in Emerging Markets: "Think Big, Act Fast, Start Small"
Lesly Goh
8. Eyes on the Planet: Toward Zero Deforestation
Hiroaki Okonogi, Elji Yamada, and Takahiro Morita
9. Redefining the Smart City for Sustainable Development
Tomoyuki Naito
10. How Digital Systems Will Transform the Future of Money and Development
Tomicah Tillemann
11. A Short Story of Transmediary Platforms
Bright Simons
12. Unleashing Meaningful Breakthroughs
Ann Mei Chang
Contributors

About the author

Edited by Homi Kharas; John W. McArthur and Izumi Ohno

Summary

Looking into the future is always difficult and often problematic - but sometimes it’s useful to imagine what innovations might resolve today’s problems and make tomorrow better. In this book, 15 distinguished international experts examine how technology will affect the human condition and natural world within the next ten years.

Product details

• Authors: Homi Kharas, Homi Mcarthur Kharas
• Assisted by: Homi Kharas (Editor), Kharas Homi (Editor), John W. McArthur (Editor), Izumi Ohno (Editor), Ohno Izumi (Editor)
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.01.2022
• EAN: 9780815739654
• ISBN: 978-0-8157-3965-4
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: The Thornton Center Chinese Thinkers Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Miscellaneous; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Policy, Society & culture: general, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Economic Policy, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Economic Development, Political Economy, Central / national / federal government policies, Development economics & emerging economies, Central government policies