EXPLORING THE FUTURE

Catalog description

This course reviews and analyzes the key trends that will reshape life and work in the 21st century. These trends include climate change, alternative energy, global population dynamics, radical innovations, medical, pharmaceutical and genetic advances, the rise of China, asymmetrical warfare, information technology and networks, biotechnology, the manipulation of matter at the atomic scale (nanotechnology), the use of devices and drugs to heal the body and enhance mental performance and the new realities of global trade and competition. Facing and coping with dramatic changes will become an everyday challenge. Will you be prepared for it?