TRAVEL FORWARD...

Imagine you had the ability to travel through time into the future. Flash forward 10, 20, or even 50 years... What does our world look like?

Is our civilization growing stronger, sharing knowledge faster, and pushing boundaries farther? Or, are we still struggling with the same challenges of climate change, resource shortages, education inequality, and trying to keep up with an exploding population, among others? What if – looking out the door of your time machine – we hadn’t worked hard enough to prepare for our future?

The Waterloo Global Science Initiative (WGSI) is an ambitious undertaking aimed to bring new perspectives to these types of global challenges, applying the latest scientific and technological thinking. Through multinational, interdisciplinary and multigenerational collaborations, WGSI seeks to promote dialogue and catalyze the long-range thinking that can advance technological ideas and strategies for our future.