Future

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Sciences & Technology

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Opinion

We don’t just need more engineers, we need next-gen engineers

Our profession’s future is not just about training more and more recruits to fill the shortage, we also need to focus on the qualities of our next-gen engineers

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Health & Medicine

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Book extract

Future-proofing research

Medical science and research more generally, are key to solving some of the world’s biggest problems, but it needs to be fostered

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Education

Tech-bots, virtual worlds and personalised everything

Technology is changing our world at an unprecedented rate, and it’s up to educators to help equip today’s children to become future-ready citizens

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Business & Economics

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Book extract

Keeping robot finance fair

Some think that removing humans from financial transactions may help prevent moral failures, but technology isn’t necessarily ethical

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Arts & Culture

Taking back our cities from advertisers

The digitisation of our cities is prompting calls for a re-think about who designs our public spaces

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Sciences & Technology

Sounds like science fiction

Some of the technological innovations of 2017 sound more like sci-fi, but according to the brains behind a few of them, the future is still full of surprises

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Arts & Culture

Blade Runner 2049: Identity, humanity and discrimination

Blade Runner 2049, like the original, is about what it means to be human. But the ethical implications of cloning could prophesize an ethically fraught future

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Sciences & Technology

Working in an autonomous world

As autonomous technology becomes a part of every-day life, what impact will they have on where we live and how we work?

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Health & Medicine

Hiring for personality, training for skill

As workplaces demand more of their employees, having only technical skills or expertise is no longer enough. Instead, the emphasis is on multi-skilled individuals making up a team

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Politics & Society

Adapting to the speed of change

Is emotional resilience a skill that can be taught to help the next generation prepare for the unpredictable workplace of the future?