Philosophers, futurists, authors, writers and even an American president are calling for a rethink of how modern society works or, more to the point, why it doesn’t seem to work.
This video provides an overview of what
has gone wrong and what needs to be
done to create a different
type of society.
by John Converse Townsend Empathy—that seven-letter word seems to be everywhere these days. It’s all over the pages of the Washington Post, it’s being “engineered” at developer boot camps…
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