BY DOMINIC WIGHTMAN From Barbarism to Empathy: Why Future Generations Will Judge Our Cruelty Across the world exist rare couples who communicate not only through words but through something deeper—a current that hums beneath the skin, making oceans between them feel like illusions. When one thinks of the other, the other feels it as warmth flaring behind the ribs, the heart pressing against its cage … Continue reading The Next Evolution
BY STEWART SLATER Two-and-a-half thousand years ago, a man turned his back on the high position birth had given him and retreated to a life of solitary asceticism in the forest. Known then as Siddhartha Gautama, he is better known today as the Buddha, and an estimated 500 million people follow his teachings. Ninety years ago, a man died in poverty (due, in no small … Continue reading In Defence of Misfits and Loners
BY DOMINIC WIGHTMAN The future of education will hinge around pupils’ skills at source valuing and judgment. In a world where the best teachers will be available to pupils in hologram format, what other skills will pupils have to hone? Stimulated beyond our imaginations, their task will be to ride the knowledge stream and skilfully embrace the real while avoiding the fake; recognising that at times secondary … Continue reading Kipling’s Future is Secure
BY DOMINIC WIGHTMAN There are great gaps in humans’ understanding of the brain. Even where science has come up with a discovery about a certain part of the brain, there are further scientists who argue that, until we know more about those other realms of the brain which are still a mystery, we have discovered nothing; mere random notes in a symphony which we still cannot … Continue reading The Genius of Mental Illness
