Seismic shifts are afoot in the transportation and mobility sector. This is a time of profound transformation in the choices we have (or don’t have) about the way we move, and with transformation come new opportunities and challenges. Mobility, defined as the movement of goods and people, is a key enabler of freedom and access. […]
The COVID-19 pandemic exposed rifts in intergenerational solidarity (which are driven partly by demographic change)
In The Great Leveler, a book that attracted considerable attention, historian Walter Scheidel argues that throughout human history, deadly pandemics have been one of four events/triggers (along with large-scale wars, state failure, and revolutions) that tend to bring greater equality. According to him, the Black Death pandemic of the mid-14th century wiped out about a […]