Sustainable business: $40 trillion green tech boom will help save world - conference keynote speaker

[pjvdixon]

Green tech boom - powered by profit AND values - a great combination.

[camieleikam]

i love this one.

[slapcompany]

When you don’t know what true for you, everyone else has unusual influence.

Values are deeply held personal beliefs that form your own priority code for living.

Values are the individual biases that allow you to decide which actions are true for you alone.

What are your values?

[LastReplaySC]

lol the world does not need saving .................. the humans do ...... but as usual 80% + of the future 9 billion mark of humans will be left out.......

dont forget the 800 trillion $ of unbacked CDS noone is talking about.............

[JPPambo]

The translator tool is brilliant. Obviously no where near perfect yet but i cant imagine it taking too long to get there. Very exciting.

[pjvdixon]

Yes interesting. If 1 million people refine the tool by correcting errors then Google has a new language tool and can also SEARCH video content for first time. but imagine same tool used by CIA, KGB, MI5 to scan telephone conversations!

[Smollie1]

doing more with less became 'doing mall with glass'. the translation feature will become the best in the world and a feature on the android platform, real time translation on the phone will change a lot about how we think of foreigners and how we do business.

[pjvdixon]

Sorry to confuse you. The robot translation of this video for subtitles - beta version - is activated with the RED CC button on right of screen (bottom). What do you think of the potential power of this feature?

[pjvdixon]

Press the UP ARROW bottom right of the video and CC for ROBOT translation of this video - amazing, instant, experimental and of course not accurate yet. Sign of future. As people like you correct it, Google will develop best speech recognition in world. Think of ability to turn into words ANY conversation live or recorded (security issues???). Also think of power for first time for search engines to READ content of a video - better than relying on title and creator's key words.

[thetruth786110]

What would you say that if global warming or climate change is fake? How much would the economy grow??

[pjvdixon]

The issue is not the science in answer to your question, rather what most people believe. At present (as I do) most people think the evidence is huge that there is a serious risk we are warming our planet.

[austenbosten]

Mr. Dixon you are absolutely right, it isn't about whether GW is real or not. It's the issue that at the rate in which energy is consumed A: fossil fuels will inevitably be depleted in the near future to fuel the growing energy needs of developing nations, and B: Nuclear power although efficient and clean, is just too hazardous to rely solely on.

If we are to continue our way of life, we must re-create the internal combustion engine that powers itself, and emits little to nothing in pollution

[pjvdixon]

Yes - the longer term energy crisis has enough drive of its own to push green tech forward, but coupled with worries about climate change it is even more powerful.

[mrmaciejm]

I hope you are right. For now the green job market is dwindling and most of the jobs do not require inventive and out side of the box thinking, they more write as much as you can in report because consultancy gets paid for a word or government paper pushing.

[pjvdixon]

Green tech was hit last year by collapse in oil prices.

[mrmaciejm]

I hope this year prices of energy will increase... Australia is still struggling with ETS, there is a great opposition against any type of penalties for big polluters.

[pjvdixon]

@mrmaciejm Yes will see what happens - things have stabilised around $70-80 which is still a fine price for renewables industry.

[DeltaNC]

It is not unusual to see companies upgrading server systems only because they are more efficient and cheaper to run, rather than due to an increase in processing requirement.

Virtulisation is also a great technology, has really matured in the last few years. Will be interesting to see if cloud computing leads to less powerful home computers.

[pjvdixon]

True. 5% of entire global power use is the web and PCs attached to it. A large server farm can use as much power as 5,000 homes.

[amsan87]

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Already tweeted about this to my followers, especially regarding Socially Responsible Investments (SRI), whereupon I conduct my very interesting dissertation research about in the UK..would love to have your point-of-view on this, if possible. Will certainly buy your 'Sustainagility' book now I found this.

Thank you Sir for continuing to inspire your followers, I look forward to meeting you one day.

Best regards,

TheAmarina on Twitter

[pjvdixon]

I appreciate the Tweet - have a look a @patrickdixon - 27,000 followers.

[amsan87]

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New ways of making profits, strengthening brand -loyalty, win-win situation for all stakeholders, this goes in hand with a strengthening brand image...

Affordability & Scale are two important factors you mention among others..

This goes in hand with R&D - Technology + affordability

[amsan87]

Dear Mr, Dixon,

A Very enthusiastic 'pitch' delivered to potential future leaders of tomorrow.

Tweeted via 'TheAmarina' earlier: "Succinctly put by futurist Dixon, something I will definitely contribute to in my future as well."

It all makes business-sense really: especially regarding economic sense - energy costs rise - powerful incentives needed (and are indeed developed continuously by ingenious engineers!

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[pjvdixon]

Thanks very much - glad you found the video helpful.

[pjvdixon]

Looking forward to your comments, ratings about this video and the $40 trillion green technology boom - subject of our new book, SUSTAINAGILITY, co-author Johan Gorecki, Globe Forum. Published by Kogan Page in May 2010.