What would the world look like if we were listening to science? Franca Parianen travels across Germany and asks 12 scientists of various disciplines for advice on the future. How will researchers into plastics build the world? How does their material end up on our plate? Is there any hope left among climatologists, and do historians know more in this respect? Is it possible for artificial intelligence to be racist? Or for medicine to be too male? How far will renewable energy get us? And are genetic researchers sometimes afraid of their own work?
If you dig deep enough, you’ll find a playbook for the future. Science that does not only warn but also offers a way out, and entirely new ideas – perhaps even some that work. That render the world more diverse, the water more drinkable and humanity freer (including from viruses).
We just have to listen! If we do that, the lead will disappear from the walls, CFCs will disappear from the atmosphere, cholera from the water and polio from this planet.
