While marriage used to be about day to day survival, today we look for so much more. As our expectations have changed, divorce rates have climbed. At the same time, the best marriages today are the best marriages that the world has ever known. Not your grandmother’s marriage.

Ramesh Srinivasan speaks to the inherent biases embedded in contemporary technology and asks us to reimagine a more inclusive technology. Because “we can do better.

“Educate an enlightened managerial elite.” So states the mission of many business schools. Is the structure of business education capable of promoting moral behavior over the desire for exponential growth and personal gain?

Over the last four decades, the performance of financial markets has brought 1-2 billion people out of poverty and helped level income inequity globally. At the same time, we have witnessed extreme market dysfunction that has resulted in moral and ethical upheavals. Mihir Desai explores how the integration of humanities may be key to reforming markets.

How might supervillains take over the world, and what can we do about it? Kevin Esvelt, the first to identify the potential for CRISPR “gene drive” systems to alter entire populations of organisms, is calling for a new scientific method that is both open and gives beneficiaries a say in the process.

Multi-medium artist Alexa Meade describes how a challenging school assignment inspired her to explore how to get ‘unstuck’ in life and art. She’s joined by Aza Raskin, who takes this concept and applies it to self-reflection in an age of highly curated public image and the importance of self-empathy.