Kiyoshi Kurokawa of the Health and Global Policy Institute in Japan delivered a lively keynote speech this morning on the topic ‘Age of uncertainty: Have we become wiser?’
His wide-ranging talk, which tracked knowledge generation from the rise of the printing press to a world in which ‘Googling’ is a verb, took in the population explosion, globalisation and the role science can play in solving global challenges.
While he didn’t actually answer the question, he got a few laughs along the way, particularly for this picture showing humankind descending into obesity.
Are we getting wiser? (Credit: SciDev.Net/Nightingale)
Katherine Nightingale, South-East Asia news editor, SciDev.Net
