Our Digital Future - A #humanist Future? Keynote at Modena SmartLife 2020 (complete) Gerd Leonhard

bonus sierra it's a great pleasure to be back in modena albeit virtually thanks daniela for the nice opening words the biggest thing i will regret of not actually being in modena with all of you uh is that we won't be able to have a nice dinner together which is of course always the the crowning part of the gig in in italy so i'm speaking to you virtually today about um yeah the the digital future uh i i want to start with saying one thing you know i think right now things are really really pretty tough i think for everybody especially in italy and yet my opening statement will be that the future is better than we think and i will explain it to you why that is and why it could be if we make the right decisions you can use right here if you're watching on youtube or linkedin or twitch or wherever you're watching you can use the comment bar there's my my dear fellow featurist soharashi she's going to answer the comments and i will take some questions at the end and i do have a special surprise for you at the end the gift you know it's sunday after all right got to have gifts on sunday so that's coming right right up and let's dive right in right first i think you know it's quite clear we are currently on a bit of a corona coaster right and don't be afraid when i fade out i will come back it's basically the emotional stress of going up and down and things are constantly changing i mean i'm in the same position then many of you it's like we don't know what's going to happen next week we have to turn around we have to find the strength with each other and you know the other day i had a great conversation with other futurists about how we are feeling about our speaking where it's going the corona coaster is here to stay and we need to support each other um we need to figure out i think at least for the next year and a half as to what is happening and where we are going and here's a short forecast on this right this is from mckinsey analysis saying you know no matter how you look at this chart it's pretty quite clear it's going to be until the end of 21 maybe 22 in the eurozone until we have some semblance not of normal but of the next normal end and it's you know it's really quite clear that this we're in for the long haul right this is an l shape regardless of the vaccine uh and the economic recession will be felt in the next years i think if you're a millennial around 25 years old some of you may be online watching this this is a very big event it's not like the financial crash it's not like fukushima it's not even like september 11th i think it's a huge cut and also a huge opportunity as we go into this future i mean basically covet 19 has been a giant accelerator for technology and most of that is good not all of it is good but take a look right remote working yeah all of you know what that is telemedicine that has exploded you know people go on the doctor virtually ecommerce online entertainment remote learning i mean basically technology is the winner of this whole crisis uh where we're meeting through here but does it mean because technology is everywhere that we're going to stop thinking about actually coming together hugging each other having food together i don't think so i think these are hybrid approaches that we're going to see in the future very very important if we don't give up on this you know this is probably going to come back in somewhere the other but as ceo of microsoft said the other day such an idea you know we have seen three months in three months the innovation of the last in six months innovation of the last six three years right i mean the amount of transformation consumers have changed everything in their life work shopping learning live at home the list goes on you can see it here right it's basically when we look back we probably have never changed as much as the last six months as to how we do things you know i have a neighbor who is 75 years old he didn't even know what uber was you know the the taxi service the on-demand service and the other day he keeps telling me that all he eats now is uber eats he looks like oh yes okay this is how we're changing it it's a different narrative different story and this is the header right teller anything remote everything and remote everything is really practical it's cost efficient it's starting to work but is it human i think it's heaven and hell at the same time if you do a lot of zoom calls you know what hell looks like when you're sitting on that all day look looking at the green light you're trying to come up with a fancy head that you can put on which you can now do on zoom uh but i'll spare you on that one but it's on the one hand it's a great thing we all love it but on the other hand we're saying i couldn't actually meet with real people and and this may also be a question of age of course i think if you're 15 and the gamer this is what you do right but yes we have to be a little bit careful about this and you know the world is to an extent upside down things that used to matter i'm possible now if you like cruise ships that's over you know if you live in venice they're not coming back sorry tell you that there is no no but we're not going back to normal and we don't want to go back to normal there were many things about normal that weren't so good right inequality economic distress and of course italy has many normal set in the end we all agree that probably need fixing i live in switzerland and we can say yeah we had a good normal but the future isn't going back to this i'm sorry to tell you but there will be new normals and we're going to live in a world of pivoting right great american word we're turning around the ship tourism agriculture right everything is turning around i mean this is basically a time for us to reinvent ourselves tourism is the hardest one clearly i think uh italy has great cards however i'll talk more about that later uh but the same goes for live events conferences rock concerts movie theaters right airlines you know you don't want to be in the shores of airlines now uh automotive sector that's right around modena on that whole area north of modena and between milan and modena is of course where all the big brands are the manufacturers and last not least the fashion industry we have to think about how we can do things differently because a year and a half of that adaptation and then a different consumer a different mindset and how we're going to go virtual without losing our soul right our reality our what we are and what we stand for i mean you can't eat on the internet right that's a very big deal italy so but here's some examples of adaptation invention pivoting here's the dj that plays a concert uh basically a drive-in concert very popular in denmark also the us here is how people eat now right i hope not in italy i would find that pretty strange but people do that the two defaults went virtual here's a hotel that is renting out their rooms on a day rate not for getting together but for working from home so to speak right very smart idea here's myself now i'll go on virtual this is what i do now i show up on the screen i think i look better in reality than that uh and here's something really interesting i want to actually play a short video for the a fashion show uh from from jack jacobs it's called the the fashion brand and this fashion show is happening in a corn field right in the feed field of wheat so people can keep that distance check it out i mean ingenious idea about pivoting and making something new out of this so here's a short track with this i mean it's mind-boggling the inventiveness of uh of this of this uh industry sector you may have seen this that you can see it on the ff channel on youtube but so people are sitting there and enjoying the corn field and of course the models but hey what a great idea of pivoting right we're going to have to do more of that what is your current field that you can go into in the future if you make cars if you're a manufacturer if you're on tourism if you're a city the city of modena isn't looking at the right approach here and i really appreciate you uh putting me up here for this virtual conversation so here's the hard part right everybody's seen this this is not new but yeah tourism is going to really suffer through this cutting back international tourists of course but there are solutions right here in switzerland yeah we're localizing tourism we're coming up with interesting packages we're reaching out to neighboring countries there's many many things that we can do of course i don't have a ready-made solution for this but i think you know italian people are ingenious but of course people in generally tend to be ingenious in the tourism business and in restaurants and i think we'll find a way forward here so generally speaking we are in a world of wuka you may have heard this before volatility uncertainty complexity ambiguity is used in the military a lot which i don't usually quote but hey makes sense here it's that's our future right and how are we going to do that well i think we have to what i call flip the vuca turn it around we have to be fast velocity unorthodox hey that's something italian we could think about that co-creation and the good old american word awesomeness come up with great ideas now there's companies inventing things that work only because of this crisis i mean airbnb is not doing virtual experiences i don't know how that would feel but hey you know think of that idea as a sort of a flip in the book i said so this is something just to take home as a as a way of approaching this crisis you know whatever you do try to co-create come up with ideas do new things and three headers here aren't orthodoxy the most important new ideas things that you haven't thought of before ingenuity inventing stuff on the fly i think leonardo da vinci right i mean you've invented what five thousand things courage and that's what we have to give each other and we have to encourage each other to get through this because eventually something better a better future will emerge not in not back to the normal so let me talk about the key topic here of my presentation the great transformation technology humanity what does it mean we're moving into transformation and hyper drive right and the things that used to be on top cars traveling flying cruise ships right again big deal it's moving to the bottom and vice versa right the things that are on the top now what are the important things on the top well education remote learning energy the state of course anything you do with health and wellness and food that has all moved to the top right and we're looking at a whole different world now our priorities have changed and this is very challenging but it's also a giant opportunity to finally reset for example to a green economy we have learned to cut back because of covet and to make compromises are we going to do the same for climate change and is that a ticket to our future the world economic forum says there's hundreds of millions of new jobs in the green economy i tend to agree we have to make the right decisions you know we have to use this transformation as a catalyst so there's four winners yeah well actually that's five but i'm going to just list four here so four winners of the current crisis that are going to continue to win on the stock market probably but also in general big tech right everything is about tech so it's actually too big take i will talk about that shortly what that means big health hundreds of billions if not trillions of dollars euros are moving over into the healthcare space the vaccine bioengineering biotechnology convergence of of biology and technology and that's going to be a very fruitful place to work in we're going to reallocate money there we're gonna drag the social sector into this and america will finally maybe next year really have a public health care system i'll talk more about that in a minute that's that's of course a hopeful angle and big state well lots of people don't like big state because it feels overbearing but this is what we have now when we have to find the state politicians that we can trust now there's an oxymoron here in switzerland we trust the state it's going really well but think about brazil you know people don't trust the state americans you're italians well there's a debating point for later but big state is everywhere and i think big green is the ticket i mean if you're in the business of sustainability renewable energy sustainable vacations tourism ecotourism i think this is where we had it like really quick and in europe we're using the corvette crisis to think about this how we can actually address climate change many countries it's the opposite brazil or india they're saying oh basically okay let's we have bigger things to do now and also think about climate change but think about this logic if you can make sacrifices because of a pandemic if you can be told by the state what to do and by the police because there's an emergency would you do the same for climate change are you willing to pay a carbon tax on airline flights not take your car into the city i mean these are things that we're going to have to do basically sacrifices compromises and they will generate a huge amount of new business and new work if we get our agenda right so as a star trek fan of course we're going basically warp drive into the future i mean we are in a situation where it's not just fast anymore it's mind-boggling fast and we have to get used to this basically my kids will live in a world that's going to be so exponentially different they will live to be 100 on average the kids of my kids might have to be 120. we think about this for a second exponential change 4 8 16 32 every 12 months a leap i mean the world in 10 years will be more different than the world if we go back 100 years compared to today the changes we're going to see that we have to be aware of them and we need people with wisdom to be our guides we need every politician every public official and every ceo and every futurist of course right to have a driver's license for the future but to understand where this is going and i think this is becoming crucial now because we have to make decisions every single day look at healthcare right i mean the combination of data and science and analytics and maybe ai can we do better with healthcare can we actually make it healthcare not sick care can we prevent diseases can we customize and personalize medicare medical devices can we use better diagnostics cloud biology better food yeah of course we can and i have great hope that the convergence of technology and biology will create a healthcare system that is affordable and that is accessible and that will also deal with a digital divide now that's of course going up tether medicine telehealth i foresee a time in the future where 80 to 90 of doctor visits that we have today are not no longer needed because we can do it through devices like the apple watch but you know there are many other devices apart from the apple watch but we're going to see a huge explosion here in the next couple of years working from home same thing this is going to explode not everybody has a fancy setup like this i think the reality is probably more like this right we're saying oh my god i have to like do double duty uh and this is i'm sure quite familiar with you but here's the good news right we're going hybrid as far as work is concerned work from home work raw form work from the cafe work from the beach what i've always done really maybe not work too much maybe work less but human relationships h2h human to human in the flesh in the meat space as some people call it i have a good laugh about that one are becoming more valuable just because we use these devices doesn't mean we are going to forget what it's like yeah these are tools we're going to use the tools and we're going to go hybrid if you don't know how to do that you'll be in deep trouble but things like education yeah we can learn things online but really the learning happens between people when we get together why people go to mit why do they go to mit when they can watch all their courses online because of the experience keep in mind when we think about working from home the way that the human brain is wired right experiences relationships engagement as long as we're human we're going to look for that right and that's by the way a great ticket for tourism the future of tourism just to lean back to this so we are in an amazing time right the largest technological transformation in human history all the stuff being invented at the same time i think this is really exciting possibly overbearing but talk about overbearing take a look at this one 2050 many of my colleagues colleagues like ray cartwright say we're going to reach a point to where machines have potentially the same power possibilities than us whatever that means i don't think machines will ever have emotional intelligence or exist right and that sentience or sapience wisdom but they will be pretty damn smart and they will do many things for us and in 2015 we have to be ready we have to think about what that means and what we want them to do and what they should not do probably that's a much more important question as to what they should not do so here's my key point on technology in the future i think we will have all the tools we need to solve practical problems water food energy disease but will we have the wisdom will we make the right decisions that is the key point we have the tools but hey you can use a hammer to kill somebody or can use it to build a house i can use ai in the future not me but people can use ai to kill people and so what are the rules and social contracts governing all of this we have to put a lot more energy into that and not just say well we're going to use this because it works that will get us to the very same point that we're at right now with facebook just as an example what used to be good has now become an ai driven marketing machine a data engine where we are the content i left facebook two years ago for that very reason i'm not going back and i think it's becoming unethical just just to actually you know be part of it so anyway different discussion we'll take more questions on that later yeah here's the important point putting the human inside we should always have humans in the loop we should always make sure that it's the human benefit that counts not the monetary benefit that's not the same thing there are other human benefits and not about money we should make sure the combination of people planet purpose prosperity purposes being the key word here that is becoming the future of technology so exponential technological progress brings up an important question that question is well yeah it's great but is there such a thing as too much of a good thing so enter my friend elon musk preventis all right elon has invented a thing called the neural link uh which he tried to he demoed the other day with pigs basically an implant in the brain that sends out signals where the pig can be communicating and so to speak also control their limbs you know it's meant to help paraplegics and so on but it's a long story let me play this short clip for you i think you'll find it quite entertaining and then after that a short quote from elon musk himself three little piggies gotta check it out on youtube but here is a question from the audience i think you'll find this revealing another question from twitter will you be able to save and replay memories in the future uh yes i think uh in the future you will be able to save and replay memories um i mean this is obviously sounding increasingly like a black mirror episode but uh well i guess they're pretty good predicting so here kind of shows you know what is the business model yeah it's backing up the human brain i mean we see lots of tv shows about this yeah too much of a good thing you know let's say okay elon keep going and good luck with all the stuff that you're doing but this is really far out in my view possibly the idea of being superhuman or living forever i mean let's be real about this for a second the other thing that's really interesting uh is something that facebook has just launched with with oculus rift called the infinite office and of course there's good timing for this when you think about the current covet isolation and not going out and it's probably going to come back for most of next year now we can do this right we can virtually live at home and do all that stuff and what good timing for this product and i don't know whether to laugh or how to or to cry i think this could be fantastic it could in fact be so good that i would get totally hooked on it and i think a lot of people feel that that way about virtual reality but where is it going to take us and i think this is my hunch of where it's going to take us it's going to take us to a place of constant evolution where we are no longer capable of functioning without it right where we are so network that we can't get out of bed without the connection then you're going to end up with a great show on amazon called upload if you can watch it on amazon prime that does exactly this story but we have to think about what that means you know marshall mcluhan the famous media theo theorist and also futurist of course great uh influence on my work he said we shape our tools and thereafter they shape us that was 60 years ago i don't want these tools to shape me i don't know about you but i'm also going to put a second quote here from marshall who says all extensions of man and woman are also amputations when we add something that makes us more powerful we also remove something and what would we be removing when we use virtuality all day long well it's kind of like what our world would be really boring afterwards uh it's kind of like a giant expansion that amputates pretty much everything else i think we need to be very careful about this we need to use it for the benefits health technology medical right but how about the things that are too much of a good thing great show on netflix the social dilemma okay it's available in italian here i want to play a short sample so you can see it this is what every quest is yeah they sell certainty right selling certainty that's what technology does take a look at this movie i think you'll be quite impressed i really think we need to do this then we need to make sure that every person that is involved in making those decisions especially in social media and other media has a what i call technocratic oath and has to give us a technocratic health like a doctor who gives us an oath to do the right thing and to always look out for the benefit of his patients who's looking out for the benefit of the users what is the oath right i mean clearly we're going to need responsibility we need a hippocratic oath for technology right we need to think about something like a council of ethics that is beyond the business purposes and i've suggested this in my book which is available in italian but i've done that for years and finally we have some we have one in singapore we have one in denmark maybe we should have one in modena and in italy at large what is ethical technology this is going to be important question because right now technology is so limited still by what it can actually do well but 10 years the sky is the limit this is a big question not what we can do with technology but what do we want to do great quote here from tim coxy of apple and who says technology can do great things but he does not want to do great things it doesn't want anything technology is neutral it doesn't have an agenda it has code it doesn't live right if we want something with technology if we want to have a good life in the future if we want equality if we want to live in an equal country if we want to solve problems we need to make our own decisions right we need to inject ethics and what makes it worse is that technology is basically everything now i mean technology is eating up all other industries telecom banking financial services healthcare pharma transportation everything is becoming technology right so imagine what will happen in 10 years when technology is up the exponential scale and other 10 steps we're talking basically in the neighborhood of 500x and in you know 10g and 10 billion people on the internet we're going to need to think about what technology is supposed to do and what it's not and what are what are its limits and and we have to ask why not just how today we're saying well you know how does it work how do i get my movie to stream properly or how does 5g work or any of those things but the feature is going to be about why why are we doing this is it good for us and who's in charge is it the users in charge or is it the platforms in church we're moving into the future what i call the mega shifts it's a big topic in my book you can actually download the third chapter of my book for free at megashifts.digital not to promote the book this is a great resource and it's available in the italian megashits.digital and so all of these things automation robotization cognification smart machines you know the stuff that we talk about every day without getting too geeky and meme slinging here right uh this is going to explode i mean basically the world is going to change more in the next 10 years than the previous 100 years and it's technology that drives it but technology drives it and ethics defines it it's the why question the purpose is what the fancy that's what should define that you know today we also have this question a lot where we say well we're defined by the fact that it's just working right so it's working i'm happy but we have to go further when we think about technology like smart machines so-called thinking machines there is no such thing as a thinking machine right smart machines yes read steward russell's book benevolent uh ai i think it's called or human human whatever ai but just look at stuart russell great book about ai when he talks about what ai actually is it is not like us this is what we are right we are in a universe of many things that we do like foresight curiosity purpose passion can you imagine a passionate computer that will really take us into science fiction critical thinking i mean a computer can't think about what may happen in the future apart from of course projecting and using numbers but understanding wisdom context i think maybe in 30 years we can get there and that's the scary part until we until then this is what your kids have to learn right your kids have to learn sorry purpose i mean if you have kids you got to teach them about passion about imagination about curiosity right about critical thinking and this is the people that we should hire that's our future our future is not to compete with machines on facts and logic our future is clearly this is about existence it's about sapience wisdom and you know a lot of in my work i use this term called phronesis right which is practical wisdom you know applying wisdom to what we can solve you know i think humanity on top of technology so i use this topic a lot you know when i speak about humans and machines you know we have to get away from this concept that we need to gear up to compete with machines i call that machine thinking or dataism you know everything is driven by data we're not machines i don't believe we are machines some people do hence i don't believe that we would be upgradable and that we should upgrade ourselves let's talk about as we move on to the final part of the presentation for the next you know next two hours just kidding uh about geopolitics and what's happening here and i mean to put it in a sort of very simplified way we're living in three worlds now uh the american world which is extreme capitalism you can see how far that has gotten them uh corporate capitalism right now edging towards civil war i used to live in america for a long time this is a tough one i'm quite concerned about that europeans history and culture humanism and that's our blue flag here i'm proud of that flag but yeah that also means that sometimes we're not the fastest right and of course china right what's china all about state capitalism surveillance ai not to say that's all a bad thing but yeah these are these are worlds differences in opinion and where are we going with this i think europe needs to be very strong on the philosophy that we have here in europe which is social capitalism and i'm so glad that the commission is pushing this agenda finding solidarity with italy as i know many of the terms may not be to everybody's liking but god has the commission turned around has europe turned around just in the last three months has a miracle turned around i mean i'm german but i have to say that's pretty impressive i think we're going to get somewhere with this we're not perfect with europe but yeah i think right now this this is where i expect most of the change i'm a proud european i think we have solutions for many many things what we don't have is sometimes the vigorous enterprising spirit and the pioneering that you have in california and the huge amount of control that people have over data and populations in china but this is the future the united states of europe i know this sounds like a crazy idea right now when we have all of these issues but what's going to happen if we don't collaborate the next couple of years we're going to have to really figure out how to get together how to become one in the sense of united states but separate states separate languages cultures right but we we could save trillions of euros for common defense so the united states of europe will emerge by 2030. and i'll talk to you again about that when when it's time hopefully that part of it will be trackable talking about america what a mess but we're going to see a pivot in america this year maybe next year the ship is turning around i wrote a story on this a couple days ago you can find it at the futureof.u

foretelling url but i have great hopes for that happening next year right now it's a mess but i think that we're going to see a pivoting of america coming back with a democratic president democratic congress even and a woman as a leader well second in command but soon to be a leader and have you noticed by the way that so many countries who are won by women are doing the best in this pandemic new zealand taiwan switzerland to some degree germany finland iceland why is that well we go for emotional intelligence right so let me talk about climate change and talk about why that is an opportunity not just a challenge you may have seen this you know san francisco was in the cloud of orange smoke uh just about three weeks ago uh two weeks ago and it was like apocalypse i mean this is some footage that was widely spread around the internet and and so when we talk about climate change right it's quite clear covert 19 is just a trial run for climate change and you think the covet 19 is a tough one it is but dealing with climate change and the consequences of climate change it's a thousand x of what we have now this is an existential issue i'm not going to preach much about this with numbers you've seen all the numbers i just think that we have to reboot and say well if we want a world that we can live in yes maybe we do need more carbon taxes on airplanes on meat on cars i know that sounds like a crazy idea given that we already feel like we pay too much taxes and nobody wants to pay extra taxes right but think about this right if we are going to make a difference and change the way that we're doing things how are we going to do this who wants to pay taxes voluntarily i think the unthinkable is becoming the new normal and so let's unthink right so we can discover what the new normal is and this is happening all around us i mean the unthinkable is that the state is going to tell me that i have to wear a mask to go to restaurant that was like a year ago that would have been japan but voluntarily and today it's yeah we're accepting it because it has to be done similar things are going to happen right here with what i call what's been called the circular economy right this whole concept of giving back and not not just recycling generally speaking by giving back materials and putting back what we have taken and taken the externalities and and using those uh to replenish them i mean clearly i think the circular economy will be the economy will be all of the economy in 2030. so if your business model includes circular economy and sustainability i think you're on the right way there now clearly we're looking at these three different tracks right now the waves of change public health and covet climate change falling right after that and the third big wave is the rethinking of the economic logic the sustainable capitalism and this is all shaping up right now i mean these are giant opportunities for our well-being for our future and also for prosperity they create jobs if we set our minds to it these are challenges these are opportunities they're both at the same time they're a crisis that we can't waste to get our world going again at this we have to step in the right direction and do this side we have to go to a new narrative and this is what's important that new narrative is this one right by investing in food land infrastructure into nature what the world economic forum has research is roughly the same money that we're spending globally on stimulus packages 2.3 trillion if we spend a little bit more than that we can create 390 million new jobs by 2030 by putting the money in the right place by making the green deal the center of everything and i think this would be amazing for italy i mean there's so many amazing companies in italy that are already falling in this in in this direction that are already pulling everybody in this direction as well this new narrative is going to be crucial i think for a future two stories here on the left technology clearly that is going to be what we have to take as a landmark exponential convergent the power of technology right next to that humanity holistic business models circular economy and human benefit not human-centered and the anthropocene kind of way right but human in terms of the benefit that we're receiving i think if you write that on your flag for the future post with covet we don't know when postcode is that would be the right direction you know the landscape of money around us of capitalism has quite clearly failed to take care of many things that it should take care of and i think we're moving into a world where we're going to see what i call the quadruple bottom line and that's been written written and talked about for 20 years including of course al gore and others and there's even a book called people planet purpose people planet profit i think i call this people plan that purpose and prosperity and this is what's shaping up in the on the agenda right now this is kind of a beyond gdp thinking uh beyond gross domestic product or gnp whatever you want to call it kennedy already said that bobby kennedy 1967 gdp measures everything except for that that makes life worthwhile life is beyond one thing and this is really becoming always in the crisis right now so as we're pivoting as we're moving around and and trying to figure out what the next step is four central things that you can expect in the next 10 years we're going to move towards equitable and just societies and this is not just a wishful thinking this is our survival program this is something we need to do to get to the next level a kind of sustainable capitalism wow that's a lot to be defined that will take the next five days to explain but really the size of action and sacrifices on climate change i mean i fly a lot i used to fly a lot uh if i ever fly again yeah be happy to pay a carbon tax the same price on the ticket if i have to i think we need to think really dramatic and and and really not spare ideas here and of course a strong public health care system lots of money will go into this lots of new jobs will be generated there so let me give you some final thoughts and then i will take some uh youtube common questions unfortunately we don't have a live feed here but let's not ask this question anymore what will the future bring there is no such thing the future isn't fixed it's not falling down from the sky from silicon valley or china it's not made by microsoft google apple facebook whoever 10 cent the future is created by us we make the future we decide what we want we make choices the key question that you should be asking for the future especially in italy is this question what kind of future do we want what choices do you want to make where do you want to put the money who's going to make those decisions who's going to take you to that future that is the future because we will literally have every possible choice it's hard to imagine today because we're in dire straits right now in 10 years technology will give us the answer for everything upload your brain if you if you find life boring get a robot boyfriend girlfriend i mean what kind of future do we want for ourselves and for our country and for the world leonardo da vinci the virtue of your man the i think it's a whole movie truviano right the vitruvian man as a symbol of how we are connected to everything around us and the symbol of the renaissance of course and now we're having a new renaissance and this is what's surrounding us now technology mind-boggling ai the internet of things 3d printing mind-boggling possibilities and solutions the key to our future in so many ways but technology will not fix social cultural or political problems that's up to us that's us up to up to everybody and the i call this the neoluvian man neoluvian woman right the uh donald right i suppose i think we're going into the future where we're going to see a new human renaissance an awakening of people saying you know what this is great to have but what does it do and what shouldn't it what should it not do i mean let's be honest about this you know we all want to achieve combinations of people planet purpose and prosperity in different levels we're going to have to come and come on to the same agenda here with 10 billion people connected to the internet in probably less than 10 years so as my final quote i think right now is the time to shape your future or be shaped by it and this is a great opportunity for reset a great transformation that we're seeing around us right now so thanks for your time

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