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The Next 100 Years “Instead of issues of population explosion or “… it’s in deep space that non-biological “By creating a Million-Member network excess-leisure, we may be collectively tackling ‘brains’ may develop powers that humans of engaged scientists and engineers we can the greatest challenge ever — survival — can’t even imagine.” p7 prove the power of collective action.” p30 at a cosmic scale of time and space.” p5 THE NEW YORK ACADEMY OF SCIENCES MAGAZINE • FALL 2017 THE NEXT 100 YEARS WWW.NYAS.ORG BOARD OF GOVERNORS CHAIR GOVERNORS Mehmood Khan, Vice Thomas Pompidou, Stefan Catsicas, Chief CHAIRS EMERITI Paul Horn, Senior Vice Jacqueline Corbelli, Chairman and Chief Sci- Founder and Partner Technology Officer John E. Sexton, Former Provost for Research, Chairman, CEO and entific Officer; Chairman at Marker LLC Nestlé S.A. President, New York New York University Co-Founder, BrightLine of Sustainability Council, Kathe Sackler, Founder Gerald Chan, Co-Founder, University Senior Vice Dean for Mikael Dolsten, Presi- PepsiCo and President, The Acorn Morningside Group Torsten N. Wiesel, Strategic Initiatives and dent, Worldwide Research Seema Kumar, Vice Foundation for the Arts & Alice P. Gast, President, Nobel Laureate & former Entrepreneurship, NYU and Development; Senior President of Innovation, Sciences Imperial College, London Secretary General, Human Polytechnic School of Vice President, Pfizer Inc Global Health and Science Frontier Science Program Mortimer D. A. 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Mordecai, Industries Management and COO (USNY) University of New York Donna Milrod, Former RiskEcon® Decision Met- William Wachtel, Partner, for the Global Health (SUNY) Managing Director and Elaine Fuchs, Rebecca C. rics Lab/New York Uni- Wachtel Missry LLP Program, The Bill and Me- Lancefield Professor in versity, Courant Institute Head of DTCC Solutions, Grace Wang, Vice Chan- linda Gates Foundation HONORARY LIFE Mammalian Cell Biology of Mathematical Sciences Chairman of the Board of cellor for Research and Johan Rockström, GOVERNORS and Development, The & Stern Graduate School DTCC Deriv/SERV LLC Economic Development Executive Director of the Karen E. Burke, Derma- Rockefeller University; of Business and Chairman of the Om- for the State University of Stockholm Resilience tologist and Research Investigator, Howard geo Board of Managers Gregory A. 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