Davos 2011 – Committed to changing the state of the world

by Andrew Maynard | Feb 1, 2011 | Emerging Technology, Policy, Recommended, Technology Innovation

Cross-posted from the Risk Science Blog. As it did last year, the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos has left me with a daunting task – how do I summarize the highlights of the meeting in a single, short post? The answer of course is that I can’t...

Davos 2011: Global Risks permeate conversations this year, but where’s the science?

by Andrew Maynard | Jan 29, 2011 | Emerging Technology, Oversight, Policy, Technology Innovation

Cross-posted from the Risk Science Blog. Take a metaphorical slice through this year’s annual World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, and Global Risk would be writ large through every part of it.  Hot on the heels of the sixth Global Risk report, this...

Obama spotlights innovation, but how do we get it right?

by Andrew Maynard | Jan 25, 2011 | Emerging Technology, Technology Innovation

Technology innovation was front and center of Obama’s State of the Union speech tonight.  This is extremely good news for those of us who believe more needs to be done, and done better, to ensure science and technology translate into effective solutions that...

Building a sustainable future: World Economic Forum tackles the opportunities and challenges presented by technology innovation

by Andrew Maynard | Jan 19, 2011 | Emerging Technology, Future, Policy, Technology Innovation

“Technology doesn’t just happen” – people must be sick of hearing me say this.  Yet as chair of the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on Emerging Technologies, it’s something I seem to end up saying rather a lot as we strive to...

Small gods and the art of technology innovation

by Andrew Maynard | Dec 6, 2010 | Communication, Emerging Technology, Engagement, Technology Innovation

There’s something rather liberating about being asked to give a no-holds talk on your perspective on life, the universe and everything.  So when the Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center asked if I would speak as part of their “Where do we go from...

Emerging technologies at the World Economic Forum – rethinking integrative approaches to global risks

by Andrew Maynard | Nov 30, 2010 | Emerging Technology, Policy, Technology Innovation

In an interconnected world, global issues demand integrative solutions.  It’s a statement that many people would agree with – in systems where associations between cause and effect are complex, you ignore synergistic inter-relationships between factors at...