The burnout pandemic, our Asianized world and other top stories of the week
Also in this week's round-up: Ethiopia's Nobel prize and why Singapore is the world's most competitive economy. Image: Unsplash
Feeling burned out at work? In the UK and US, you’re in the majority.
⇒ Explore: Mental health
Tech has outrun the rules. These reforms will boost fairness and growth.
What is means to be the most competitive. Singapore’s success.
This leader has advanced democracy and peace—and won a Nobel Prize.
Your zero-carbon aviation future: blimps, solar planes, and hovercraft.
Warming at twice the global average. But we can still save the Arctic.
More like diabetes or an asteroid? How to mobilize to fight climate change.
The surging market in student papers. A threat to higher education as we know it.
How to improve social protection—by reaping the economic gains of migration.
Soon, humans won’t be the only ones thinking about the ‘why’. Advances in AI.
One less catastophic event to worry about: asteroid impacts happen less often than previously thought.
What is the Fourth Industrial Revolution? Cites Forum founder Klaus Schwab for having coined the term. (Newsweek)
An economic tipping point is coming fast. Continuing coverage of the Global Competitiveness Report. (US News & World Report)
How to buy robots. Guidelines from the Centre for the 4IR. (Mandarin)
Why governments and businesses worry about AI. Interview with Forum AI lead. (Business Today)
Smashing sex taboos in Myanmar. Coverage of a Forum 2019 social entrepreneur of the year. (Reuters)
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