Challenges of the 21st Century

The US National Academy of Engineering (NAE) has revealed that the panels choices fall into four themes that are essential for humanity to flourish namely sustainability, health, reducing vulnerability, and joy of living.

While the challenges have not been ranked, voting by the public is on, one among them is to Advance health informatics – with a view to develop stronger health information systems not only improve everyday medical visits, but they are essential to counter pandemics and biological or chemical attacks.

The academy has chosen these engineering challenges that they feel can be realistically met, most of them early in this century.