Welcome to Western Hemisphere Futures. This blog is intended to think outside the box and do something different than the typical analysis of the region.
It's about future scenarios 5, 10, 25, 50 or even 100 years into the future. What's the worst case? What's the best case? And perhaps most importantly, how do we as a hemisphere build that better future.
I want to talk about moonshot style projects, not small gains. How do we get crime below 5 homicides per 100,000 in every country in the hemisphere? How can we get malnutrition rates down to zero? How can we create effective regional institutions? How can the hemisphere create an abundance of cheap and clean energy? And the ultimate moonshot project, how will Latin America reach the moon?
I want to talk about debates that are barely present, but could soon matter to the region. How does Latin America deal with the infrastructure for self-driving cars and private sector drones? How should the region manage its own parallel internet? How will criminals profit from technologies not yet created? What sorts of regulations should governments pass for the ethical treatment of robots or to manage nanotechnology safely?
This blog is a risk. I'm going to try to put some difficult and challenging ideas out there. I'll be wrong a lot. I may decide to shut it down in a few weeks or months if I run out of energy. I make no promises.
This should be fun.
