Wisdom in fragments

Globally, we have neglected this topic [agriculture] for decades. We have, worldwide, over a billion undernourished people. Food prices have risen over the past few years, with our own research showing these should accelerate up from 2010.

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If stem cells prove safe for use in the brain, you might use them to repair brain damage, but you might use them to increase or enhance brain function.

No industry and indeed no activity at all whether commercial or not should act unethically, or immorally and so the relationship of bioethics, or ethics, to anything it studies is the relationship of authority.

If morality is the science of the good, ethics is the study of that science, and bioethics is the study of that science as it relates to biosphere.

Many people think the role of bioethics is to go and see what the scientists or doctors are doing and tell them to stop because they are acting, by hypothesis, unethically. However I often find when I go and see what the scientists are doing, they are doing wonderful things and I'm very inclined to say 'great guys, keep going!'

The role of the dollar rests on many other things, not just economics. There is a reason why the likes of Alfred Smith, and Karl Marx studied politics and not economics.

Chief Strategist & Senior Currency Strategist at Bannockburn Global Forex

I would suggest that most dollar problems are cyclical, and when the fed reserve raises interest rates, and the business cycle re-enters an upswing, there will be many reasons to buy dollar.

Chief Strategist & Senior Currency Strategist at Bannockburn Global Forex

In 2008 there was one company which applied for more patents than all the others put together, this company was IBM.

Chief Strategist & Senior Currency Strategist at Bannockburn Global Forex

Seventeen of the top twenty universities in the world are in the USA, one third of all students who leave their countries to study in another come to the USA.

Chief Strategist & Senior Currency Strategist at Bannockburn Global Forex

I don't have to outrun the Tiger, I just have to outrun you. When you look at many of the financial centres such as The City of London, Wall St, and their counterparts, they think of things in Economic terms.

Chief Strategist & Senior Currency Strategist at Bannockburn Global Forex

There is a big black box of as-yet unimagined risk. Most of what now seem like the biggest risks to society were unknown one hundred years ago.

Philosopher & Director of Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford

At some point, if this kind of technological progress continues, it would seem that our descendants will become entirely digital: uploads or artificial intellects implemented on computers.

Philosopher & Director of Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford

Right now, biological evolution is not the main engine of change in the human condition. Instead, social and technological development, which occur on shorter timescales, are the predominant change-makers.

Philosopher & Director of Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford

Among future technologies that may pose significant existential risks I would rank machine super intelligence at or near the top.

Philosopher & Director of Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford

In my view, all the big existential risks are anthropogenic, arising out of human activity. More specifically, the biggest existential risks in this century arise out of anticipated future technological advances.

Philosopher & Director of Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford

The average American worker was subject to danger every bit as great as soldiers in war.