Over the years, plenty of responsible experimenters – think of the more pragmatic elements among the back-to-the-landers, kibbutzim, Tolstoyan farmers and so on – have managed to demonstrate that new societies can form successfully at modest scales. The best among them also managed to establish a productive and beneficial relationship with the worl... See more

Governments are far less systematic—even in the best cases, innovation is piecemeal, ignored in public finance and rarely linked to strategic priorities like solving the care crisis. The UAE remains the only government with a significant (1 per cent) budget allocation for its own R&D. And while some public agencies have embraced collective inte

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