PS Events: Investing in Health for All
Don't miss what Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Werner Hoyer, Sandra Gallina, Marie-Ange Saraka-Yao, and more had to say at our latest virtual event, Investing in Health for All. Click here to watch.
Megan Greene is a senior fellow at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at Harvard Kennedy School and a member of the Regenerative Crisis Response Committee.
Hindou Ibrahim is Founder and President of the Association for Indigenous Women and Peoples of Chad and Co-Chair of the International Indigenous Peoples Forum on Climate Change.
纽约-在不太遥远的将来，从未碰过一本书的学生就能从高中毕业。 20年前，从没有使用过计算机的学生也可以从高中毕业。区区几十年里，计算机技术和因特网已经改变了信息、知识和教育的核心准则。
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这种类比可以帮助我们想象出信息爆炸幅度之巨大，并证明随之引发的担忧是并不是空穴来风。搜索引擎是浏览这种如海洋般的信息量的唯一的机制，因此这些搜索引擎不应该被误认为仅是一个可有可无东西，一个随便玩玩的按钮，或仅是一种能找出最近的比萨饼店在哪里的工具。搜索引擎是知识、财富，是的，还有错误的信息的最强大的扩散中心。
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