Friday, April 30, 2010

CHALLENGES FOR 21st CENTURY...


1. Make solar energy economical.
2. Provide energy from fusion.
3. Develop carbon sequestration methods.
4. Manage nitrogen cycle.
5. Provide access to clean water.
6. Restore and improve urban infrastructure.
7. Advance healthcare informatics.
8. Engineer better medicines.
9. Reverse – engineer the brain.
10. Prevent nuclear terror.
11. Secure cyberspace.
12. Enhance vital reality.
13. Advance personalized learning.
14. Engineer the tools of scientific discovery.

Basically, there are four grand challenges: (i) of energy, environment, global warming, sustainability; (ii) improve medicine and healthcare delivery; (iii) reduce vulnerability to human and natural threats; (iv) expand and enhance human capability and joy. Meeting these challenges requires vision, science, imagination, boldness, priorities, policy, markets and perseverance.

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