Description
This intriguing and carefully edited book is devoted to the issue of how we can learn to live together in the face of division and conflict. Though it lies at the very heart of our existence, it seems that humans have not yet found a way to deal with it. What hope, then, that we humans can learn to live together with machines – or they with us? This monograph features distinguished international scholars, including government and corporate representatives, leading researchers and academics from multiple disciplines, and 3 Nobel Laureates (Yuan T. Lee, Chemistry; Martin L. Perl, Physics and Leon Lederman, Physics) – all committed to understanding the role and impact of science, technology, economics and politics on human beings and society at large, with the aim of improving the human condition and achieving greater cooperation among people. The six sections of the book embrace issues of the environment, sustainability and security; of diversity and how to achieve integration and peace among people in a fractured world; of healing and understanding ourselves, including the important role of brain research; of how to overcome poverty and inequality and how to improve education at all levels; and how new technologies and tools can be used for common benefit, their drawbacks and potential uses, from the smallest scales in nature to how we conduct financial transactions. The culmination of the book is a call to action, bringing the best minds in the world together to create solutions to world issues so that we can all live together in harmony. The book is dedicated to Dr. Epimenides Haidemenakis, Emeritus Founder of STEPS and The Olympiads of the Mind OM (this book contains chapters from OM 8, held at the US National Academy of Science and Engineering in Washington, DC, and OM9 held at the Orthodox Academy of Crete in Chania, Crete in September, 2017).
