World view: Tomorrow never knows

Like tomorrow, the next generation never comes

With each successive generation of new educational technologies the dawn of a revolution in teaching and learning is heralded. There have been many such dawns in the last 30 years, during which the desktop computer and the Internet have been developed; but there have been similar dawns throughout the century film, radio, records, broadcast television, audio-tape, videotape, programmed learning ...

[Health in the world of tomorrow].

Global Pharmaceutical Policy – Ensuring medicines for tomorrow ’ s world ,

The golden era of the pharmaceutical industry has brought the world many useful new medicines, a very powerful industry, and nice profits for shareholders. The global pharmaceutical market was worth USD 650bn in 2007, and has potential to grow, especially in middle-income countries. However, the free market mechanism that helped to shape the global pharmaceutical system now shows some distinct ...

How George Soros Knows What He Knows

In its traditional formulation as an explanatory principle, reflexivity means that any object of thought contains in itself the thinking activity that generates it. Applying the concept of reflexivity to the question of financial markets valuation, Soros concludes that economic reality is actively shaped by the perceptions of market participants. This leads him to a theory of investment radical...

A symbiotic view of life: we have never been individuals.

The notion of the "biological individual" is crucial to studies of genetics, immunology, evolution, development, anatomy, and physiology. Each of these biological subdisciplines has a specific conception of individuality, which has historically provided conceptual contexts for integrating newly acquired data. During the past decade, nucleic acid analysis, especially genomic sequencing and high-...