Engineering in an unpredictable world - Global Grand Challenges Summit 2019

Humanity is facing unprecedented challenges from a population growing to 10 billion by 2050, and accelerating degradation of the planet and its resources. At the same time, exponential technological changes are making the world smarter, faster and more connected, but with unanticipated consequences.

Engineers are crucial to the international effort to address these rapidly evolving, unpredictable challenges. We need to embed collaboration, diversity, and global responsibility into the solutions we create, transforming the way engineers work, think, and are taught.

Engineers have the power to help make a better world for the citizens of 2050, but only if we transform engineering and embrace that responsibility today.

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Video shown at the Global Grand Challenges Summit 2019 in London, UK, 18 September 2019. GGCS 2019 is the launch of a second series of summits jointly hosted by the UK, US and Chinese academies of engineering.

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