This is not meant to scare but simply to acknowledge that a fully connected society is not without societal changes and challenges.

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The great marker of the societal changes over the past couple of generations has been the rise in the female employment rate.

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Both men are hopeful about the Middle East because, they believe, societal changes will push the Arab leaders in the region to make a real accommodation with Israel.

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We are likely to see economic and societal changes that will dwarf what we have seen so far from the Internet, driven by gathering, analyzing, and acting upon data.

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If there is a lesson for the future of Islamic finance from medieval Christian finance, it is that the roots of its decline lay in societal changes to the fragmented, feudal society of Europe of its time.

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In her keynote speech, Rosabeth Moss Kanter, the Ernest L. Arbuckle Professor of Business Administration at HBS, explained the opportunities behind societal changes such as a decline in traditional families, and stressed the importance of understanding the reasons behind the changes.

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Similar to "The Greatest Generation" who confronted the challenge of World War II and inspired the major societal changes that followed, the new "Green Generation" includes ordinary people engaged in individual and collective activities to improve urgent national and global issues, such as climate change or the world's water crises.

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While one looks to government to move things forward from a fuels and technology perspective and the other looks to strong regulatory and societal changes, both recommendations indicate that we need intelligent strategies with some legislative teeth to stop doing what has become a suicidal free market drift with the winds of global changes.

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People don't easily understand how a small sea level rise can result in bigger storm surges and coastal damage, or how slight changes in ocean temperatures can change global rainfall patterns, leading to droughts and floods with catastrophic economic and societal consequences.

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