Ideas for Change

These stories and videos are about new ideas and directions. Content may change, or be added to, according to the latest search results.

Destroying UXO

Mike Minehan, CEO of the Ideas Channel, talks about helping to get rid of the explosive remnants of war in Cambodia.

Land Release and Landmines

Land Release is the latest methodology to clear minefields, now being introduced world wide.

Explosive Harvesting

Explosives can also be harvested in countries that have been devastated by war. These explosives are then melted, mixed and recast to make detonation charges that, in turn, destroy other, more dangerous, unexploded ordnance.

Longtermism and Saving Trillions of Lives

Latest Supersonic Passenger Jet

This is the successor to the Concorde

Are We Living inside a Hallucination?

Future Warfare

It's already here.

The US Far Right in 2022: What's Coming Next?

White supremacy groups influence American politics far beyond their numbers. On the anniversary of the Capitol riot, Jan 6, 2021, how has the far right evolved, and what can we expect in an election year?

Hypersonic Missiles

These are the latest escalation in the arms race. What are hypersonic missiles and why are the superpowers raicing to develop them?

World's Fastest Supercomputers

Where are they and what do they do?

Saving America

Can it be saved? From itself? It's amazing that such questions are now being asked.

Surveillance and the Metaverse

Is this the end of privacy?

Civil War Looming in the USA?

They've already had one disastrous civil war, do they really want another?

Crypto Mining

Inside one of the world's largest crypto mines. It's in Kazakhstan.

Saving the Night Sky

New Zealand is helping to pioneer the preservation of dark skies for stargazing.

Inoculation Against Media Disinformation

Estonia is leading the way with media literacy courses in schools.

World Population Growth

Will it be sustainable by the end of the century? Will climate change and food production affect the numbers?

Parallel Universe

Yes, there might be two or more of you in the multiverse.

Privatizing the Moon

The Adam Smith Institute is proposing to privatize real estate in outer space. What? Real estate is expensive enough here, so what's the deal?

The Planet Next Door

It's called Proxima d and it will likely be the first exoplanet that we will try to visit. Although we won't be swinging by anytime soon.

Neom - the Saudi Eco City

Saudi Arabia is dreaming about building a city of the future in its desert. But would you want to live there?

Developing New Covid Vaccines

The problems involved in developing new generation Covid vaccines that are more potent and mutation-proof.

Go Fly a Kite - Might be the Best Way to Harness the Wind

Slaughterbots

Do they exist? Yet?

Where is the Coronavirus Going?

Well, it will keep mutating, but where and how high this plateaus will be is the subject of intensive research.

Teaching History by Way of Video Games

Yes, this is happening. But how reliably could video games and VR teach history?

Homes Made from Giant Sewage Pipes

This idea, developed in India, might be more than just a passing phase.

Gravity Batteries

Can the they solve our future energy storage problems?

Could Contact Lenses Become the Next Computer Screens?

The newest computer upgrade, perhaps.

China's Train Prototype Capable of 620kph

Facebook and Ray-Ban Smart Glasses: Will Anyone Wear Them?

Want to Beat the Market? Go Ask a Robot

Apple and Mixed Reality: the Next Big Thing?

Opera and AI

Can these possibly mix?

The Rise of AI Companions

The City That Floats

An answer to rising sea levels.

Japan's Deep Sea Turbine Plans to Harness Energy from the Ocean

Grasshopper Steak

The superfood of the future.

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