As we all face the daunting reality that we need to increase food production by 70 percent to feed the escalating global population by 2050, Professor HELEN WALLACE argues we should be looking skyward for one of the solutions to this monumental and multifaceted challenge.
David is a Senior Lecturer in Applied Ethics and CyberSecurity at Griffith University’s School of ICT
Katherine is a transdisciplinary academic at the Australian National University in the School of Cybernetics.
The launch of ChatGPT put the scope and potential of artificial intelligence within grasp of everybody. As a result, AI’s disruptive power was an alarming eye-opener for many but Dr. DAVID TUFFLEY argues we should dial-down the paranoia and focus on the upside.
It’s now widely accepted that consumers and investors will play a lead role in the race to net-zero as they increasingly make decisions based on a company’s ESG credentials. As STEVE OKUN explains though, for the businesses caught in the crossfire of decarbonisation transition, rising ‘stakeholder capitalism’ is a complex economic and organisational reality to deal with.
Years of R&D, science and entrepreneurialism have combined to unlock the the power of pineapples as one of clean-tech’s greatest breakthroughs. Co-Founder and CEO PETER WAINMAN reveals the personal story behind how his company discovered the cleaning effectiveness of pineapples and how they embedded circularity into the production flow.
Peter is a professional entrepreneur with a background in private equity, scientific research and innovation.
What began as a series of tweets from a US Embassy monitoring air quality has become a global community tracking – and acting on – pollution. Dr. ANDREA LA NAUZE reveals how citizen science is helping to clean up our skies.
Andrea is a Lecturer in the School of Economics at the University of Queensland.
As our lives become increasingly complex fuelled by the transition to a digital world, rising geopolitical tensions and global environmental challenges under the strains of population growth, new and emerging leaders face a daunting challenge.
Professor KATHERINE DANIELL believes cybernetics may hold the key to next-generation decision-making.