Visit Tomorrow’s Crises Today: Frontiers of scientific research and technology in the coming decade
The 21st century faces several major challenges. These include, but are
not limited to, the Earth's dwindling resources and collapsing environment,
insurmountable communication gaps and irrevocable irrational decisions
leading to a disastrous outcome to a rapidly aging and increasingly urban
global population. These challenges threaten to substantially damage the
overall quality of life in Israel as well as in other parts of the world. Scientific
research confronts these challenges by revolutionizing existing technologies
and inventing totally new ones, essentially following the advice of the
Stanford economist Paul Romer, who so rightly said: "a crisis is a terrible thing
to waste". Below, we list 9 selected research topics addressing the above
challenges, discuss very briefly what each of those topics aims to achieve
and outline the infrastructure and running cost requirements needed to assist
and support these efforts.
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