Breakthrough: The Promise of Frontier Technologies for Sustainable Development: The Thornton Center Chinese Thinkers Series
Editat de Homi Kharas, John W. McArthur, Izumi Ohnoen Limba Engleză Paperback – 25 ian 2022
At a time when many people worry about stalled progress on the economic, social, and environmental challenges of sustainable development, Breakthrough is a reminder that the promise of a better future is within our grasp, across a range of domains. It will interest anyone who wonders about the world's economic, social, and environmental future.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780815739654
ISBN-10: 0815739656
Pagini: 256
Ilustrații: 8 tables
Dimensiuni: 156 x 224 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.37 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Brookings Institution Press
Seria The Thornton Center Chinese Thinkers Series
Locul publicării:New York, United States
ISBN-10: 0815739656
Pagini: 256
Ilustrații: 8 tables
Dimensiuni: 156 x 224 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.37 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Brookings Institution Press
Seria The Thornton Center Chinese Thinkers Series
Locul publicării:New York, United States
Cuprins
Contents:
Acknowledgments
1. Breakthroughs: Why We Need Them for Sustainable Development
Homi Kharas, John W. McArthur, and Izumi Ohno
2. Breakthrough Technologies for Pandemic Preparedness
Yolanda Botii-Lodovico and Pardis Sabeti
3. Fixing the Real "World Wide Web": Breakthroughs at the Interface of Food, Agriculture, and Large-Scale Computation
Zachary Bogue
4. Too Cheap to Meter: The Promise of Unstored Solar Power
Vijay Modi
5. Interspecies Money
Jonathan Ledgard
6. Predictable Disasters: AI and the Future of Crisis Response
Tarek Ghani and Grant Gordon
7. How AgriTech Is Transforming Traditional Agriculture in Emerging Markets: "Think Big, Act Fast, Start Small"
Lesly Goh
8. Eyes on the Planet: Toward Zero Deforestation
Hiroaki Okonogi, Elji Yamada, and Takahiro Morita
9. Redefining the Smart City for Sustainable Development
Tomoyuki Naito
10. How Digital Systems Will Transform the Future of Money and Development
Tomicah Tillemann
11. A Short Story of Transmediary Platforms
Bright Simons
12. Unleashing Meaningful Breakthroughs
Ann Mei Chang
Contributors
Acknowledgments
1. Breakthroughs: Why We Need Them for Sustainable Development
Homi Kharas, John W. McArthur, and Izumi Ohno
2. Breakthrough Technologies for Pandemic Preparedness
Yolanda Botii-Lodovico and Pardis Sabeti
3. Fixing the Real "World Wide Web": Breakthroughs at the Interface of Food, Agriculture, and Large-Scale Computation
Zachary Bogue
4. Too Cheap to Meter: The Promise of Unstored Solar Power
Vijay Modi
5. Interspecies Money
Jonathan Ledgard
6. Predictable Disasters: AI and the Future of Crisis Response
Tarek Ghani and Grant Gordon
7. How AgriTech Is Transforming Traditional Agriculture in Emerging Markets: "Think Big, Act Fast, Start Small"
Lesly Goh
8. Eyes on the Planet: Toward Zero Deforestation
Hiroaki Okonogi, Elji Yamada, and Takahiro Morita
9. Redefining the Smart City for Sustainable Development
Tomoyuki Naito
10. How Digital Systems Will Transform the Future of Money and Development
Tomicah Tillemann
11. A Short Story of Transmediary Platforms
Bright Simons
12. Unleashing Meaningful Breakthroughs
Ann Mei Chang
Contributors
Recenzii
Focusing on UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)-ending poverty, malnutrition, deforestation, and climate change-Kharas, McArthur, and Ohno ask what key ingredients produce nonlinear breakthroughs. They argue that a gradualist approach will fail and that exponential progress comes only with better policy and politics as well as technology. The book's 12 chapters draw on more than a dozen authors with expertise in science, business, civil society, and policy making. Overall, they find that best practices for innovation include user-centered design, understanding the context and concerns of affected communities, smart risk-taking, designing for scale and sustainability from the start, and collaboration. Chapter 4 examines utility-scale solar power, finding it nearly free as costs lie with battery storage and metering rather than with the electrical power itself. Chapter 7 targets smallholder agriculture with the maxim "think big, act fast, start small" to help improve agronomic decisions regarding activities such as fertilizing, watering, and harvesting. Chapter 9 explores "smart cities" as more than just a venue for showcasing new technology, from transportation to utilizing sensors for collecting large data sets for AI analysis. Throughout, contributing authors rightly recognize that new breakthrough technologies risk primarily benefiting the world's wealthiest, further exacerbating inequities borne by poor and rural populations. Highly recommended.