 One the future could be like this Well, we are literally drowning in data That's kind of already I think some people already feel like you know constant notifications or We could become superhuman Right Where we can reach the universe, right? No limit to what we can know It's funny now every second movie that's made in Hollywood these days has the same motif Which is that we become superhuman by plugging into the internet directly Called the singularity Now this is a very dangerous thought officer are they going to say what this is a machine calling you and you probably hang up So it's an interesting angle, you know, I think okay Could be amazing useful convenient strange creepy confusing dehumanizing Hard to say The jury is out on this, but I think we have to think about this Everything that we do has to in the end make greater human purpose So the typical example of how we push in the boundaries like virtual reality Maybe it'll be so good that we don't even want to go without it anymore And we're just kind of falling off the cliff there. And so that's a key question How much technology is too much technology when we use social media They're sort of distracting us and could be perceived as good or bad, but in the future artificial intelligence quantum computing The blockchain genome editing virtual reality Well, that's not the future. That's the day It's here now So we have to ask the question, right? Is it more important to have algorithms or is it more important to have relationships? Or the answer, of course, it's both right. I mean, we should not put algorithms over Andro rhythms, you know human things we should not always put convenience over consciousness Machines don't do relationships and relationships are 95% of what matters to us So combining those two things will be very important You know, it's a huge skill shift from the from the left brain You know the mathematics the calculation to the right brain a skill shift the world economic forum has pointed out The skills are shifting from 2015 to 2020. So critical thinking creativity emotional intelligence cognitive flexibility If we have kids or you're about to have kids This is what they have to learn What makes them more human? This is the key question underneath all of this How computable are we? Is that the digital GERD? Is it possible to express ourselves in data? Are we just algorithms? I mean, it's interesting when you ask that question in Europe, you get people are saying, oh, no, not this But in China or Silicon Valley people are saying, yeah, maybe we're just technology That is a question we have to answer eventually You know, otherwise we can have these kind of situations Where machines can give us good counsel Or we can just get a download of the latest skills That could be quite useful as envisioned in many science fiction If we're just data then this is our logical destination But here's the thing on the end Human intelligence means a lot more than just numbers Man and machine, woman and machine are converging And some people think it's a good idea if we also then become essentially technology You know, we've heard the debates about singularity and the whole convergence of man and machine I mean, who in this room does not want to be superhuman, right? I mean, that's kind of like we all think this is a good idea for us to gear up and become super powerful Now in this evolution, we're going in this world from mobile devices to handheld devices To maybe wearables and very soon brain-computer interfaces I mean, many people talk about this and how long would it take for that to work? It's already working, just too clumsy and too expensive Well, Microsoft HoloLens is $6,000 It'll be $500 in two years and then maybe $100 and maybe free eventually We've talked about these things, some of them for 50 years Like artificial intelligence, it didn't happen We talked about 3D printing for 20 years now, not much happened But now, you see takeoff, escape velocity as they say I mean, it's funny, in the next 10 years we're going to see things that are straight out of science fiction 20 years, I mean, if you're my age, we will live to see what we call the singularity The convergence of man and machine Us mere humans aren't we supposed to have knowledge and turn the data into knowledge? Isn't that what we do? And now machines do it I'm not doing it all that well yet, but you can imagine 5 to 7 years quantum computing, million times the capacity, endless sensor networks We can get a machine with an IQ of 100,000 In theory And that machine will be vastly superior to us in terms of calculation I'll show you why that's not a reason to worry really But I mean, it does make you think If we have computers that have unlimited knowledge What's the change for us? When we have to think about this, do we want to collaborate with technology Or are we going to enter a place where there are conflicts? And who decides? With great power comes great responsibility Gardner just announced a couple days ago in the research organization Gardner That digital ethics is the number one topic for 2019 You'd be surprised because when you're in the tech business you're saying Okay, as Bartol Brecht once said, dinner first, then morals I mean, it's very hard to sell ethics It's not a product It's even harder to sell humanity But now companies like Microsoft and many other companies are saying It's very important for us to do the right thing with technology Because in theory, very soon we can do anything Here's a key question And given that we're talking about you're not far from Silicon Valley Who will be mission control for humanity? Who decides? Right now this is a minor issue or somewhat of an issue Because most of it is not really working that well yet We don't have perfect AI, we don't have the perfect IoT We don't have 6G networks We don't have quantum computers yet But they're right over there So this is a key question How do we control and how do we figure out what's good? And the best example is Facebook Gunning at democracy