“How can all the diversity and, sort of, seeming order that's out there in the world emerge from a process dependent upon chance?”

“Chance invents and natural selection propagates that chance invention.”

The ocean is evolving, and it’s not based on the ‘survival of the fittest.’ Astrobiologist Betül Kaçar explains how it’s not competition that has kept the ocean alive, but collaboration.

“I think the key point is that doesn't mean game over. That doesn't mean we're flipped into a world, and to a point of no return.”

"There is so much more uncertainty and volatility in a world that is moving fast with big countries that are more at odds with each other and with fewer rules of the road that leaders, companies, and societies are adhering to."

“We've engineered a volatile world where Starbucks is completely unchanging from year to year, but democracies are collapsing and rivers are drying up.”

“Part of what's happening now in the world is tension between organic animals and an inorganic digital system which is increasingly controlling and shaping the entire world.”

Short-term thinkers take shortcuts. Take the long path instead, explains futurist Ari Wallach.

Almost all our school improvements fail. Here’s why.