Professor Brian Schmidt AC, Nobel Prize in Physics and incoming Vice-Chancellor of the ANU:
“Australia’s future prosperity will be tied to the science we engage with.”
With his opening comment, Professor Schmidt postulated that science was an international pursuit, with knowledge and science a shared, almost entirely open, global asset. He told the Conference that most of human endeavour is a problem that is shared, whether it was health, food, quality of life or an understanding of our place in the universe.
“We are facing a major problem of sustainability, how the Earth is going to carry possibly 10 billion people. Technology is …read more
AIIA National Conference: Contributing to Global Issues
