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Inspired by: workshops/meetings » Breakthrough in memory enhancing drugs

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Originally submitted by: Rafael Popper
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Source of inspiration

Workshops/Meetings

iKnow workshop country name

Belgium

Workshop date

September 2009

The source of the Wild Card is

EC meeting with foresight experts and Blue Sky project leaders

Headline

(max. 9 words)

Breakthrough in memory enhancing drugs

Description

(approx. 150 words)
Please describe the Wild Card (approx. 150 words)
Memory enhancing drugs allow massive absorption of facts in short time (e.g. language vocabulary).

Keywords

memory, language, vocabulary, drugs, innovation

Mini-description

(max. 250 characters)

Innovative memory enhancing drug changes education an learning.

Likelihood

Closest timeframe for at least 50% likelihood
Please use one of the following options:
now-2050

Type of event

Unplanned consequence of events/trends/situations (e.g. financial crisis, accidental breakthrough)

Type of emergence

please select (if any) describe related trend or situation
A new development/situation
(e.g. a Romani state is established in central Europe; A message from an alien civilisation existing on a distant planet is received and understood, etc.

Type of systems affected

Human-built Systems - E.g. organisations, processes, technologies, etc.

Classification

Mixed

Importance

please specify:
please select
Level 3: important for the European Union
Level 4: important for the whole world

Latent phase

Obstacles for early indentification

economic filters (business/market interests)

Manifestation phase

Type of manifestation

In a probably pervasive way (contagious or transmittable)

Aftermath phase

Important implications
Transformation of a system (e.g. new applications, change in stakeholders relations/influence)

Relevance for Grand Challenges

where? please justify:
particularly relevant Europe world
Behavioural change
Ethics and abuse of S&T
Innovation dynamics
Techno-security, hazard & risk

Relevance for thematic research areas

please justify:
particularly relevant
Health
Social Sciences and Humanities

Pan-European strategies potentially helping to deal with the wild card

please justify:
particularly relevant
Facilitating and promoting knowledge sharing and transfer

 Features of a research-friendly ecology contributing to deal with the wild card

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please justify:
particularly relevant
Overcoming sub-criticality and systemic failures
To be subcritical means that the effort in a particular field or subfield lacks resources, equipment or a sufficient number of researchers to achieve a desired goal