Author: Neville Bruce

Founding director of Education for World Futures; this is now my main interst. Previously an academic at University of Melbourne, Nuffield Research Fellow University of Oxford, and University of Western Australia.
Data

Worldometers

There are now over a staggering seven billion humans impacting on this world and of course each other. What are we really doing, which groups are doing most and what does this mean to our lives and environment? The answers to these questions involve gigantic, seeminlgly incomprehensible numbers.
This is where the genius of Worldometers comes in. They report on highly researched and reputable data and present them in unique visual ways that provides not only insigt to the massive numbers but also the rate of change and urgency of the issues raised.
Worldometers cover demography, economics and expenditures, health, and internet use. The results are amazing, sometimes frightening and above all a great starting point for research into the human condition and planning for futures.

Videos EWF, Wisdom

Global Wisdom

Global Wisdom is the fourth in our Wisdom series. Wisdom is a defining feature of humanity but often sadly, indeed alarmingly, lacking in our national leaders. This video explores why global wisdom is so difficult to engender and yet so crucial to the future of humankind.

Articles EWF

The March of Time

A truly fascinating but often overlooked question is how we humans have changed over time to become who we are now? We tend to live and focus on the present with perhaps some interest in the past and future. But we suggest here that if we are truly to understand what it means to be human, we must understand how our very brief history as modern humans fits into a broader picture of time, the very essence of existence. This section explores human history in the context of all of time as we know it from the big bang to the present.