The Fourth Industrial Revolution, characterized by the convergence of digital, physical, and biological systems, is fundamentally reshaping humanity, our understanding of ourselves, and the global economic and societal structures, presenting both unprecedented opportunities and profound challenges.
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we are
wondering what is happening to the [Music]
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changing the very idea of human being
some sort of natural concept is really
going to change
our bodies will be so high-tech we won't
be able to really distinguish between
what's natural and what's [Music]
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artificial inside our own heads is the
most complex arrangement of matter in
universe you might ask yourself can we
the original Industrial Revolution was
driven by the discovery that you could
use steam engines to do all kinds of
interesting things but that was followed
by additional revolutions for
electricity and computers and
Communications technology we're now in
the early stages of the fourth
Industrial Revolution which is bringing
together digital physical and biological
systems one of the features of this
fourth Industrial Revolution is that it
doesn't change what we are doing but it changes
changes [Applause]
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us with the ability to visualize brain
activity for example through a simple
consumer-based EEG device it gives us
access ourselves in ways that we've
never before thought possible it unlocks
the black box that is the brain and
enables us to um really truly be able to
uh realize an identity that is
aspirational there's now a scientific
foundation for the effects of
mindfulness on the brain on the genome
on biological aging and when the human
mind does know itself then you get the
potential for a new Renaissance that
restructures itself in terms of our
relationship to life our relationship to
the planet our relationship to work we
need a different economic model by that
I don't mean capital ISM versus
communism what I'm talking about is a
shift in the system along the lines of
the two big changes that happened in the
20th century keynesianism with a much
greater focus on health and education
and the role of government working with
business and then a reaction against
that in late Century to neoliberalism
where the focus was on free markets
freedom of the individual and getting
governments out of the way we need a
shift to a new system that will allow us
to meet the basic needs of every human
on the planet that will live within
implant means that will be fairer and
that will be focused as its key goal not
on growth per se but on maximizing human
wellbe and history tells us that a value
shift is triggered by creation of a new
story about how we want to
live I see the circular economy as
something which fits very closely with
Mankind's goal to be Innovative and
creative and to always progress we can
use asset tracking we can use it we can
use 3D printing to enable this different
economic model to C materials feed them
back into the economy and really to
decouple growth from the resource
constraints we
have the reason we live in cities is not
different today than it was 10,000 years
ago even if we have got networks
connecting us we still want to have
places where we meet in person this
means the place where we work and the
place where we live are much closer to
each other a city where we don't need to
have big Supply chains in order to
produce things where many things can be
sourced locally thanks to 3D printing
and Robotics so if we're able to do
something to transform cities to make it
more efficient then the impact can be
huge think about the prospect of getting
rid of plastic we must not only be
inspired or informed by nature but
actually use natural organisms with
which to design products and building
Parts only instead of varying material
properties we're varying biological
functionality design is critical today
because it's the first signal of human
intention so the question of adding
quality to quantity it isn't a matter of
Simply circulating things that are
potentially toxic it's circulating
things that are safe and healthy for all
generations so the goal is no longer I
want to be less bad less monotonous less
unsafe less unjust it's really about a
diverse safe healthy and just world with
energy together we are fighting to
preserve our fragile CL climate from
irreversible damage and Devastation of Unthinkable
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proportions if we think about the
original Industrial Revolution it was an
energy Revolution I like to think of it
as a kind of book ending of a period in
human history during which we used
fossil fuels and it worked very well for
us for a long time but now we have to
bring that to an end we have Energy
Technologies that can power our
civilization solar wind uh biomass so
then the question is well how do we get
GD integration maybe the wind is blowing
in Denmark the sun is shining in Germany
and now you can move that electricity
through an integrated grid you can
supply energy to everyone who needs it
and you can supply energy at all [Music]
times walking around you do see
different stuff um far as like the body
marriage line they use a lot of things
that help them lift up and move things
to the car we just sit there and you
know program something and if it has its
own set mind to go ahead and do
everything and then as humans we just
come in and take the extra step to help
the technology it's not the The Cure All
for everything there's definitely a lot
of things where people perform the
operation better but certainly for the
right applications Robotics are a huge
Improvement for the
process the projection of 5 million jobs
lost by 2020 to technology is serious
but it's not the main question
construction Manufacturing Services
Public Health and education these
industries will still exist the main
question is what will be the future of
work how will we Define work how will we
share the
wealth from the Viewpoint of the the RoR
were jobs now the we dearly need new
education when new
training we're working with a world in
Motion in first robotics trying to
encourage you know students from third
grade all the way up through uh the end
of high school we um had students make
sailboats and then we had them race them
and so they could see how quickly they
could move and they immediately went
back and started to say oh I saw what
happened I'm going to go change this or
that and that was third
graders I've just given a prize to a kid
of 18 years old that has discovered
something really very very unique came
up with how to get better productivity
and better yields for seeds of corn and
so he basically came with the idea that
if you would perforate these seeds you
would get more food and uh you think
about it say but he didn't go to
university so how does it get all that
knowledge and he told me I mean I've
been watching YouTube since the age of
12 and I'm so interested that I've seen
everything about it I've read everything
about it the world is really open uh to
learning the thing is
uh how do you give the incentive to your
kids to do that it's this ability of
digital technology to change outcomes to
truly Empower people all over the world
that can create a more Equitable growth
that fourth industrial revolution has
the potential to make inequalities
visible and to make make them less
acceptable in the future and hopefully
to gather and Garner political support
to take the necessary decision to reduce the
Gap humans have always been using tools
but because of the recent advances in
technology we're beginning to have
machines that can augment Us in all
sorts of interesting
ways I was the first person in the world
to be able to voluntarily move my legs
while stepping in a robot by exciting
the nervous system using electrical
stimulators directly onto the spine we
believe that a cure will be possible if
enough of the right people have the will
paralysis we take two things from the
patient um First We Take a
three-dimensional X-ray and we extract
the threedimensional data out of that so
we can make a perfectly shaped puzzle
piece and then we also take a sample of
fat tissue from the patient so that we
can extract the stem cells out of those
and we use those stem cells with this
threedimensional scaffold that we
fabricate and after 3 weeks we have a
piece of living bone that's uh ready for
implantation being able to use genome
editing to understand the genetic
changes that lead to cancer and
Technologies like a drug delivery
getting molecules into particular types
of cells there's a lot of excitement
about being able to move much more
quickly on this
disease one of the things that I think
is so essential to free and open
societies is freedom of thought um and
up until now the conversation we've been
having is around freedom of speech once
we can access people's thoughts and
access people's emotions um we have to
create a space that enables people to
think freely to think Divergent thoughts
to think creative thoughts and in a
society where people fear having those
thoughts uh the likelihood of being able
to enjoy progress significantly
diminished we need to take respons
ability at every level of society from
the individual and the personal to the
institutional to the global to adapt to
these technological challenges and
changes which are redefining what it
means to be human what it means to work
what it means to be completely embedded
in this
world people always ask me if I'm an
optimist or a pessimist the technology
exists but how do we get it and
implement it at the scale we need at a
price that people around the world can
afford even though we have everyday
problems we have to solve we have to
find a way to lay the foundations for
the Innovations of [Music]
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