Experts

To better prepare ourselves for what could happen, and enhance future decision making, we need to broadly educate individuals who have an appreciation of subjects beyond S.T.E.M: like world history, psychology—and communications.

"A new technology or a new way of thinking in society doesn’t materialise overnight. During a crisis there is no time to invent entirely new technologies. Instead, a crisis propels existing solutions that were previously struggling to become relevant to prominence.”

"It is a sad fact that the most vulnerable in our societies need many public services at one time. Even sadder is the reality in which citizens who are poor and with limited education must navigate multiple bureaucratic structures with slow-moving processes."

"The powerful thing about foresight, especially if you use causal layered analysis, is that you touch people’s emotions and feelings."

"Which is why, 200 years after Bastiat wrote his treatise on foresight, it appears only a limited number of “fortunate” individuals still do the hard work of thinking, in order to foresee what others can’t.”

"As consumers look to obtain products more quickly and at an increased level of personalisation, the time between when the “right” formulation of a food product is identified and when that product is in the consumer hands needs be shorten drastically."

"The concept, which originated in the Netherlands in 2011, is now in 29 countries, including Brazil, Ghana and Singapore. (In KL and Petaling Jaya, an independent, small-scale initiative exists, known as KakiRepair by KakiDIY.)"

Precision medicine has been a buzzword for many years now. You just have to open up your social media feed, or if you’re still in denial of the digital age, maybe your hardcopy newspaper, and you will find the term ‘precision medicine’ generously sprinkled over any article that speaks about the future of healthcare.

Along with the progress of time, there is a tendency among current scholars to add to the five basic goals. For example, there are those who promote justice, freedom, human rights and women rights— building civilisations within the framework of Sharia goals that are claimed to be closer to the ideals of modern time.

"In Malaysia, only a few studies have been carried out concerning the well-being of adolescents who reside in children’s institutions."