Learning & Teaching Innovations R&DTurkey by Prof. Dr. Meltem Huri Baturay Do you believe that the new-generation learners need information to be transferred to them in form of information bombardment? Can they experience difficulties accessing information when required? Isn’t it a fact that they have access to more information than we do? Fixed by experience, […]
Leading with Hope by Jackie Nagtegaal
In 2018, Bill Gates guest-edited an edition of Time Magazine, which focused on optimism. According to Gates, “being an optimist doesn’t mean you ignore tragedy and injustice. It means you’re inspired to look for people making progress on those fronts, and to help spread that progress more widely” (Gates, 2018). In the same year, Steven Pinker published Enlightenment Now and the Roslings published Factfulness; both of which make a clear case that the world is better than we think. These were all attempts to counteract the paranoid pessimism of our time.
9 astonishing ways that living standards have improved around the world
The world has improved in mind-blowing ways. Most people think the world is bad and getting worse, but scientific data proves otherwise. In reality, the world has never been richer and healthier than it is now. And it continues to get better. Nine particular improvements in living standards are driving this trend.
The Transformation Series by Peter Leyden
The Transformation is a series of stories about the future history of America & the world from 2020 to 2050 as told by a Gen Z character in 2100. The popular series with more than 50,000 followers in Medium is a positive yet plausible narrative about how we can solve the many challenges of our time & build a much better future. Through this page you can get oriented and see an overview in order of all 6 stories linked to Medium (click on the images below). Or you can go directly to Medium but they display the stories in reverse order (blog-style) with the most recent one first: medium.reinvent.net
The Technological Singularity
Will technology be the end of humanity or its future?
Algeria invests in the English language
The Algerian government is investing in the English language as a tool for the future.
Now we know for sure that big tech peddles despair, we must protect ourselves
After the Molly Russell case, there can be no doubt about the risk or urgency: our anger must be put to good use.
More-than-Human Food Futures Cookbook
This cookbook contains eleven experimental food futures recipes that aim to provoke imagination and inspire critical thinking on how human-food practices could be different, supporting sustainable flourishing.
How Future Generations Will Remember Us
History is a long series of moral abominations.
The Shift To A Circular Economy: How Tech Is Shaping The Future Of Sustainable Retail
Consumers are increasingly pushing for sustainable business practices in retail, driving businesses to reassess what they produce — and how. From ingredient upcycling to plastic alternatives to smart trash cans, we look at the technologies placing sustainability at the center of retail products and processes.