GESDA News December 2025
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🧬 Radar Spotlight: Longevity Science Crosses the Clinical Threshold
For centuries, humanity marked time chronologically. Today, that measure is rapidly being challenged, particularly when it comes to longevity. By John Heilprin Dec. 4, 2025 The dramatic increase in global lifespan over the past two centuries is one of humanity’s greatest achievements. The average global life expectancy stood at just 32 years in 1900, a […]
GESDA News November 2025
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🤖 Radar Spotlight: Anticipating the Geopolitics of AI: From Competition to Cooperation
The race for Advanced AI is rapidly transforming from a technological competition into a defining geopolitical struggle for digital sovereignty. By John Heilprin Nov. 5, 2025 Nations are not merely seeking dominance in processing power; the new measure of supremacy also includes control over critical resources like energy, water, and minerals. Put another way, AI […]
Third Day 2025 Geneva Science and Diplomacy Anticipation Summit
GESDA Summit Draws to Close With Commitment to BCI Governance and New Global Partnerships Strategic Unveiling: The Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) Commitment Story by John Heilprin | All photos ©GESDA/Benedikt von Loebell The fifth GESDA Summit, which brought together more than 1,000 participants from the worlds of science, diplomacy, academia, and economics across 40 public sessions […]
5th Geneva Science and Diplomacy Anticipation Summit concludes three days of intensive discussions
At the close of the Summit on Friday, Marilyne Andersen, GESDA Director General, Nathalie Fontanet, State Councillor of the Canton of Geneva, and Peter Brabeck-Letmathe, Chairman of the GESDA Board of Directors, thanked participants for the high quality of their reflections and engagement. “Technology creates news forms of solidarity,” Fontanet said at the closing of […]
Second Day 2025 Geneva Science and Diplomacy Anticipation Summit
Global Summit Focuses on Funding, Diplomacy, and Governance to Control Frontier Technologies Initiatives and Public-Private Models Chart a Positive Future for Global Science Story by John Heilprin | All photos ©GESDA/Benedikt von Loebell Global science leaders at the GESDA Summit concluded that a new consensus around “anticipatory governance” is stabilizing international scientific cooperation amidst geopolitical […]
First Day 2025 Geneva Science and Diplomacy Anticipation Summit
The New GESDA Radar: A Compass for a New Age Science as the New Geopolitical Currency Story by John Heilprin | All photos ©GESDA/Benedikt von Loebell The central event of the first day was the unveiling of the 2026 edition of the GESDA Science Breakthrough Radar®. GESDA Chairman Peter Brabeck-Letmathe highlighted the urgency of the […]
GESDA News October 2025
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🧠 Radar Spotlight: The Dawn of Exogenous Cognition and the Global Governance Imperative
The idea of cognitive enhancement has long lived in the hushed halls of medical research and the wild frontiers of science fiction. By John Heilprin Oct. 14, 2025 While the conversation once centered on repairing damage or, one day, surgically upgrading our brains, the GESDA Science Breakthrough Radar® signals a more radical pivot: the rise […]
