"I aimed to create a space for contemplation of the impacts of humankind's use of nuclear technologies, both positive and negative, as well as a reminder of the fact that radioactivity is ubiquitous, ever present and essential.
As a research scientist, I endeavour to make an impact on humankind's understanding of the world, and in particular, the brain.
Other supplementary material sometimes issued by encyclopaedias ranged from 10-year illustrated surveys of events to sets of books considered to have had a major impact on humankind.
In many ways, this goal is the equivalent of the moon landings for robotics—it is an extremely difficult, but easily imagined task that could have a huge impact on humankind.
Lead has been impacting the health of humankind since the Romans began mining it 2500 years ago, and despite early knowledge of its harmful effects, exposure to lead from a wide variety of sources persists to this day [1].
The impact of malaria on humankind has been profound.
Physicist Stephen Hawking and philosopher Nick Bostrom also have expressed reservations about the potential impact of AI on humankind — but chances are they are talking about a more generalized artificial intelligence being studied in labs at the likes of Facebook AI Research, DeepMind and Maluuba, rather than the more narrow AI we are seeing today.
The environmental impact of a community or of humankind as a whole depends both on population and impact per person, which in turn depends in complex ways on what resources are being used, whether or not those resources are renewable, and the scale of the human activity relative to the carrying capacity of the ecosystems involved.
The various pictures of Earth at night have become iconic images of humankind's impact on the planet.
They use Hieronymus Bosch's triptych The Garden of Earthly Delights – which made a strong impression on the young DiCaprio – to frame the progress of humankind's impact on the planet, from innocence to Bosch's final panel of darkness and ruin.
