The Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future on May 27 hosted a special one-day workshop of Middle East scholars to discuss plans for a collabortive project looking at the future of the Middle East and South Asia in terms of the region’s economic, cultural and geopolitical significance in the global community. Boston University […]
Nobel Prize-winning physicist and Frederick S. Pardee Visiting Professor Murray Gell-Mann introduces the concept of complexity and explains how a relatively large number of individual components interact to form regularities, which may come to form a complex system.
This Pardee Center conference brought together some 40 experts from various disciplines to ponder upon the great dilemma of how science, religion, and the human future interact.
In this Pardee Distinguished Lecture, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Murray Gell-Mann explains how theories of complexity can be applied to the social sciences, because cities, nation-states, etc., are complex adaptive systems.
Eminent physicist and mathematician Freeman Dyson makes a case for the need for heretics to help keep our vision of the future open and offers heresies on such diverse topics as the United States’ status as top nation, global warming, and the end of Darwinian evolution.
This Pardee Center conference allowed for many highly esteemed scholars and professionals from a broad range of fields to come together to discuss strategies designed for the 21st century and beyond.
This Pardee Center conference asks the questions, how can we make sure that the benefits of economic growth flow into health, education, welfare, and other aspects of human development; and what is the relationship between human development and economic development?
Eminent demographer and head of the Laboratory of Populations at Rockefeller University, Prof. Joel E. Cohen delivered a set of five lectures on “The Human Population: Past, or Passing, or To Come” as part of the Pardee Distinguished Lecture Series. The series explored the current and likely 2050 populations, the Earth’s carrying capacity, preparing for […]
The Future of Space Exploration: Solutions to Earthly Problems? Marking the 50th anniversary of the launch of Sputnik in 1957 and the 40th anniversary of the Outer Space Treaty, the conference brought together leading space scientists, visionaries, and entrepreneurs from around the world to imagine the next half-century of space exploration. The conference resulted in […]
The conference discussants and participants analyze why transitions happen, and why they matter. Transitions are those wide-ranging changes in human organization and well being that can be convincingly attributed to a concerted set of choices that make the world that was significantly and recognizably different from the world that becomes.