Page 11 - Are You Future Ready?

can be a scientific consensus about a certain question –
climate change is real and man-made, vaccines do not

cause autism – is not a sign of a sinister conspiracy. It is
a sign that scientists working independently, and often
competitively, have come to a common understanding
of a problem. If there is such a consensus this should be

regarded as of considerable value.

In my opinion to be future ready, means to be ready,
willing and able to engage with the current state of science

and technological advances. To do so means that we need 009
to raise the levels of scientific literacy of society so that
the average ten-year old knows: that forces come in pairs
which are equal and opposite, that when you compress

a gas its pressure increases, and that the diversity of life
around us has come about through millions of random
changes in genes each of which has slightly increased the
chances of its possessor surviving to breed. We need to

educate people, we need to connect with society in order
to achieve what will be needed.

Professor Matthew R Evans
Dean of Science
The University of Hong Kong