The Centers Cannot Hold: What’s the Next Step for Think Tanks?

... moral and ethical questions for humanity. And the only way to tackle these questions is by refocusing on humanitarian knowledge, practically applicable notions about being human in the new technological, political and economic context. Philosophers, science fiction writers and, in some cases, academics have long been struggling with a number of these issues, but, as a rule, policymakers usually fall behind. Think tanks should occupy the space between power and intellect and work to develop concrete political solutions in the field of new ethics, or at least serve as a catalyst for discussions about them. The integration of knowledge is a vital task today,...