James Martin on the 21st Century School

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James Martin on the 21st Century School

12 Mar 2008

Speakers: James Martin

James Martin discusses his brainchild: The 21st Century School. The school, affiliated with Oxford University, uses a multidisciplinary approach to address the major problems facing the earth and examining how science and technology can help these problems and improve humanity’s future. It attempts to bring together disparate strands of research and focus them towards this goal.

Martin highlights the main problems facing the earth today— climate change, global warming and population increase— and discusses how the various institutes that constitute the school can help to solve these problems. He also discusses the technologies that are likely to dominate the future, such as nanotechnology, stem cells, and the continual development of computers.

He ends by saying that if we could apply the same management skills to solving the world's problems that we apply to, say, air traffic control or corporate management, then we would be a lot closer to solving them.

This video was kindly provided by The 21st Century School