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Technological advances could increase supply and reduce prices; politics is more likely to disrupt supply and cause prices to rise.
At the same time, we must make the most of scientific advances over the last half-century, which have made vaccines for other preventable diseases the most powerful and cost-effective health-care investment that currently exists.
US Fed Chairman Greenspan asked recently, “why U.S. businesses and workers appear to have benefitted more from the recent advances in information technology than their counterparts in Europe and Japan?”
He is right to do so, because many of today’s crucial challenges – saving the planet from our own excesses; ensuring that technological advances benefit all members of society; and building the new infrastructure that we need nationally and globally for a sustainable future – demand collective solutions.
On the other hand, new technological advances could deliver immense economic gains.
President Vladimir Putin’s pretense that Russian troops were not participating in the fighting was all but shattered recently, when a Russian fighter in Donetsk confirmed to the BBC Russian service that they are playing a decisive role in rebel advances.
The forum’s theme was undoubtedly selected partly in response to fears that technological advances will lead to widespread unemployment, as machines become advanced enough to replace humans in performing an increasing number of tasks.
Rather, it needs people who work with plastic, and their governments, to become as adaptable as the material itself, taking advantage of technological advances to ensure that we can make the most of a cheap and versatile material, without subjecting the environment to its damaging impact.
A recent report by the McKinsey Global Institute estimates that, depending on a country’s level of development, advances in automation will require 3-14% of workers worldwide to change occupations or upgrade their skills by the year 2030.
And with advances in artificial intelligence (AI), which affects a broader range of tasks, that share could double in the coming years.
His promise to restore coal-mining jobs (which now number 51,000, less than 0.04% of the country’s nonfarm employment) overlooks the harsh conditions and health risks endemic in that industry, not to mention the technological advances that would continue to reduce employment in the industry even if coal production were revived.
Government then brought these advances to millions of American farmers.
These advances will enable us to feed and provide power – at a lower economic and environmental cost – to the anticipated 2050 population of nine billion people.
That promises not only more timely and effective therapies for cancer, but also similar advances against other currently intractable diseases.
Government-supported research shaped scientific advances in information technology and biotechnology, two critical fields in which the US has the global scientific lead.
Fortunately, what motivates most significant advances in knowledge is not profit, but the pursuit of knowledge itself.
CFLs and other advances can take us part of the way, but there are massive technological hurdles to overcome before fossil fuels generally become less attractive than greener alternatives.
Late this spring, something changed, and within a few weeks moderates made dramatic public advances.
NAIROBI – Rapid advances in technology have dramatically lowered the cost of gathering data.
Alongside these advances, policymakers, human-rights advocates, and people living with HIV/AIDS have fought hard to reduce stigma and discrimination.
Thirty years after the discovery of HIV/AIDS, we have seen impressive scientific and policy advances.
For decades, Americans believed that they were riding a magic carpet of economic growth, owing to advances in science and, later, to the rise of Silicon Valley.
Qatar has had success in media with Al Jazzera , while Abu Dhabi has helped sponsor remarkable advances in artificial intelligence though its support of computer chess.
Even if a bump in the economic data does arrive, it may not last, unless the Trump administration advances policies that enhance longer-term productivity, through, for example, education reform, apprenticeship programs, skills training, and labor retooling.
Further advances along these lines will follow.
With the data they collect, developing-country health-care innovators can set the stage for their clinical advances to be transformed into national public policies, not just in their own countries, but in resource-deprived communities worldwide.
True, there have been some important policy and institutional advances since early 2010, when the Greek crisis first began to unfold.
Finally, why should tissue donors be entitled to compensation, as they or their progeny may benefit in the long run from the technological advances to which they contribute?
Moreover, krill fishing has recently been fueled by new technological advances such as vacuum pumps, which allow a single fishing vessel to catch and process huge amounts – up to 120,000 metric tons per season.
The rise in inequality today is largely due to technological change, such as rapid advances in robotics and digital technology, and it has been aggravated by heightened awareness on the part of the poor.
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