Below, Anthony Dunne answers the second of our three questions.
In my experience, the biggest obstacle to successful cross-disciplinary approaches is personality clashes, usually based on ego, territorialism and petty power struggles.
I think combining political science, economics, and ethics with areas such as synthetic biology and neuroscience could yield very interesting results. Design would be the glue.
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