Cover Story: Journeys to the Future
Environmental Protection Will Continue to Be the Major Task in Future, Too
By Parinda Vasa
What is the most important question to be solved in the future:
by your discipline? How to deal with the energy crisis.
by research in general? Measures to combat environmental change and pollution.
Which ground-breaking invention do you hope will be made within the next ten years? Safe and economic energy sources.
Which ground-breaking invention do you fear could be made within the next ten years? No scientific invention is harmful in itself. It is important that it should be used for the benefit of society.
Which problem of the future cannot be solved by research? Social differences. A better way to solve them would probably be education.
Please complete the sentence: In the future, the world will be different from today because … of the rapid growth of knowledge and interaction among people.
What is your favourite piece of Science Fiction? The movie “E.T. – The Extra-Terrestrial”. I like it because it shows a friendly Alien. There are no reasons for believing that extra terrestrial life forms are our enemies.
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