Nine Dots Prize Public Lecture: Questions for the next ten years

About the lecture Why do we ask questions? How does questioning ourselves and the world around us help to find solutions to societal problems? Questions are useful tools. They can provide us with new information, they can start conversations with others, they can allow us to propose new ideas and help to understand the priorities of others. First launched in 2016, the Nine Dots Prize is a book prize for a book that does not yet exist. The aim of the Prize is to promote, encourage and engage innovative thinking to address problems facing the modern world. We do this by asking questions – about technologies and politics, about migration and displacement, about intergenerational justice, about the rule of law and about the hold that data has over all our lives. Entrants are asked to respond t