Sir Ronald Cohen (File photo by Brad Barket/Getty Images for Kairos Society) gettyThe philanthropist and investor who was knighted for bringing venture capital to the United Kingdom sees three forces operating to improve the world. Sir Ronald Cohen described them last week in a forum on the Future of Capitalism hosted by the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business. “There are three major forces acting in the world to improve it today,” Cohen said. It’s not a passing thing.”2 Technological InnovationSocieties are better able to make positive impacts, Cohen said, thanks to artificial intelligence, machine learning, augmented reality, blockchain, and the marriage of the genome with computing. He chairs the Global Steering Group for impact investment, the Impact Weighted Accounts Initiative at Harvard Business School and the Portland Trust.

Source: Forbes October 31, 2021 11:24 UTC