How Tech Could Solve the Grand Challenges of Humanity with Vivek Wadhwa

The COVID-19 pandemic has taught all of us about the power of exponential change. In this interview, Paul Laudicina talks to futurist Vivek Wadhwa about where exponential change might take us in the near future.  The explosive and disruptive changes in virtual reality, clean energy, genetic engineering, and AI, among other new technologies,  will propel us into a new reality. Will we be able to come together as a global society to harness the power of these massive changes? And what will the next decade look like? A World Transformed: Reimagining the Future is produced by the Global Business Policy Council at Kearney, a think tank deciphering today’s biggest changes and their effects on global business. Learn more at kearney.com/gbpc.

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How is the massive disruption of the past few years leading to transformation, opportunities, new challenges and a new reality? Has our world fundamentally shifted as a result of the COVID pandemic, ongoing wars, climate change, and emerging economic and geopolitical challenges? What does the future look like for the next generation, and how will the baton be passed from the leaders of the past decades to future leaders? In this podcast series, host Paul Laudicina brings together the world’s leading and emerging experts in health care, science, public policy, and business to reimagine where the future might take us. Our guests offer new perspectives and highlight the tensions and complexity we're all navigating, helping to illuminate new paths forward. Reimagining the Future is produced by the Global Business Policy Council at Kearney, a think tank that deciphers sweeping geopolitical, economic, social, and technological changes and their effects on the global business environment. Learn more at kearney.com/gbpc.