Category: Humans & Technology

  • Switzerland Could Be the First Country to Ban Factory Farming

    That conundrum is playing out on dinner plates across Europe. On the one hand, a rising concern with animal welfare and an awareness of agriculture’s environmental impact, especially when it comes to climate change (animal husbandry contributes 14.5% of greenhouse gas emissions), has translated into a broad and growing movement to reduce meat consumption and…

  • Collapse, Renewal and the Rope of History

    This article is available on  https://futurecrunch.com/collapse-renewal/ What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make. A great darkness has settled on the land. As the plague enters its seventh season, a virulent new strain has emerged, threatening all our hard won gains. Once again our…

  • 12 futuristic cities being built around the world, from Saudi Arabia to China

    With the global population continuing to increase and climate change drastically affecting our environment, many metropolises are struggling to grow, develop and even support citizens within current and traditional urban designs. Governments, entrepreneurs and technology companies are employing some of the world’s leading architects and designers to rethink the idea of cities, as well as…

  • Southern African countries can do better at infrastructure: what the choices might look like

    This article is available at https://theconversation.com/southern-african-countries-can-do-better-at-infrastructure-what-the-choices-might-look-like-186516 Countries in southern Africa are under a crushing burden brought about by a confluence of factors. These include the unprecedented growth in the number of young people, the remarkable speed of urbanisation and the rise of informal settlements in urban centres. The physical infrastructure needed to meet these challenges…

  • What’s wrong with the Fourth Industrial Revolution

    This article is available at https://theconversation.com/whats-wrong-with-the-fourth-industrial-revolution-188255 In this episode of Pasha, Ruth Castel-Branco, manager of the Future of Work(ers) research project at the University of the Witwatersrand, joins Nanjala Nyabola, a storyteller and political analyst, in taking us through the seductive idea of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Read More