In the European Union (EU) over 250,000 public organizations spend around 2 tril-lion € annually, which is about 14% of GDP, procuring works, supplies, and ser-vices. Also, in countries outside the EU, around 12% of the GDP is spent by public organizations. This can add up to values between 5000 and 8000 € per citizen per year. Despite the considerable impact that public …
In June 1947, a group of nuclear scientists from the former Manhattan Projectlaunched theBulletin of the Atomic Scientists, a magazine that monitors newdevelopments in the life sciences and technology that could inflict irrevocableharm to humanity. That first issue had a simple image on its cover, a clock with itshands set at 7 min to midnight, that was the Bulletin’s visual metaphor to warn …