 One of the features of this force industrial revolution is that it doesn't change what we are doing, but it changes us We need a different economic model that will allow us to meet the basic needs of every human on the planet And that will be focused not on growth per se, but on maximizing human well-being We have energy technologies that can power our civilization But how do we get it and implement it at the scale we need at a price that people around the world can afford? If we are able to do something to transform cities to make it more efficient then the impact can be huge We can use asset tracking, we can use IT, we can use 3D printing to decouple growth from the resource constraints we have The question of adding quality to quantity It's really about the diverse, safe, healthy and just world with clean air, clean water, clean energy Together we are fighting to preserve our fragile climate from irreversible damage and devastation of unthinkable proportions The prediction of 5 million jobs lost by 2020 to technology is serious, but the main question is how will we define work? How will we share the wealth? How can you have a doctor that really knows a lot about data? How can you have a biologist that knows about medicine? We have to create a space that enables people to think freely, to think divergent thoughts, to think creative thoughts We really need a new education or new training We're working with a world in motion in First Robotics, trying to encourage students from third grade all the way up through the end of high school to pursue science, math and different technologies It's this ability of digital technology to change outcomes, to truly empower people that can create a more equitable growth Fourth Industrial Revolution has the potential to make inequalities visible and to make them less acceptable in the future I was the first person in the world to be able to voluntarily move my legs while stepping in a robot The cure will be possible if enough of the right people have the will to make it happen We're seeing this incredibly exciting convergence of genome editing, DNA sequencing Governments have a very important role to play in enabling the safe and effective use of technologies We need to take responsibility at every level of society to adapt to these technological challenges which are redefining what it means to be completely embedded in this world Even though we have everyday problems, we have to solve, we have to find a way to lay the foundations for the innovations of tomorrow Well good afternoon everybody, after that inspiring set of videos and comments We are going to talk now about technology driven human centered change, the Fourth Industrial Revolution We've heard a lot in recent years about income inequality and all the social and political challenges that's posing In some ways what we ought to be moving on to talking about is also technology inequality Digital inequality, because in some ways the digital revolution we're living through is incredibly exciting, inspiring Many people think that that could be the key to meeting the sustainable development goals and actually making the world much more liveable, much more human, much more equitable But at the same time technology has a very dark side too You don't have to be necessarily an alarmist to be worried about some of the AI aspects or some of the potential to displace jobs Then of course there's the issue about digital inequality and the fact that not everyone has access to this amazing new transformative technology Now, just before we did the session, the World Economic Forum did a Twitter poll to see how people out there felt about technology Admittedly anyone on Twitter reading WEF posts is already quite a self-selecting group So this isn't entirely random, but what it showed was that at least the WEF followers on Twitter who follow tags like WEF Impact Are wildly, wildly optimistic, that's a good news 63% of people apparently say they're optimistic that technology can help the world meet the global goals 29% said it's complicated, those are probably teenagers, and 8% were pessimistic, but only 8% were pessimistic 63% said you were technology optimist and out of those the SDGs they felt most excited about solving with technology Were sustainable energy followed by environmental pollution 11% said plastics in the ocean, which would be interesting to talk about And in fact when they were asked by 2030 how will technology have impacted your life 54% said for the better, only 16% said for the worse So lots of optimism about, which frankly is welcome given the state of the world in other aspects today But we're going to be hearing from the panel now about how they see technology playing into the drive to meet the sustainable goals Are they equally optimistic, are they concerned, and if so what do we all need to be doing Perhaps I can start with someone from the private sector, Mark Benioff We've got a great selection of people here, I haven't introduced them, but let me quickly introduce them I won't do long biographies, but we have my immediate left, your right The lone voice of the public sector on the panel who deserves kudos for appearing Jay Inslee, governor of Washington, which of course has many of the big tech companies And is grappling with much of the issues there Next to him we have Sunil Bharti-Mittal, who's chairman of Bharti Enterprises And has long been a stalwart in many of the international efforts to address these issues Next to him we have Marianne Yif-Jam, who is founder and CEO of Spot One Global Solutions Based in the United Kingdom, spends a lot of time in Africa trying to bring technology to Africa Next to her we have Mark Benioff, who's chairman and CEO of Salesforce And at the end we have Johan Rogström, who's executive director of the Stockholm Resilience Center In Sweden, who looks particularly at the issue of environment and technology But Mark, I'd like to start with you Are you feeling optimistic? Are you as optimistic as that Twitter poll in terms of the impact of technology And the way people can harness it in a positive way? Well, I think you framed it actually quite beautifully, the way you've kind of set this up Because, you know, there's this incredible tension right now between this dramatic innovation that is occurring But also there's these issues of equality And this is I think going to be really our dialogue for the next decade We all know that this innovation is dramatic that is happening And, you know, there's many powerful aspects of what we call here at the World Economic Forum the fourth industrial revolution The fourth industrial revolution is a wide range of advancements of innovation and information technologies And biotechnologies and so forth and so on And in each one of these they have the opportunity to move the world forward in really incredible ways If you look at each one of the SDG goals, we just took some time and went through and looked at each one And food and poverty and the oceans and the areas of gender across the board And I'd like to hit some of them later in the session You know, we can dramatically improve all these things through these advancements of technology But, and let me give you like an example though Let me give you an example So, you know, very recently just right here in this harbor there was a major new battleship launched You know, but the battleship that was launched was an autonomous battleship And it's not the first one launched here And also, you know, there's many nation states that are launching autonomous battleships So by that you mean a self-driving battleship That beats a self-driving taxi anyway Right, I can give you, I can dumb down the words if it's better But this idea that you have this autonomous battleship, self-driving battleship There's no sailors, there's no sailors on the battleship, right? It's the beginning of a navy without sailors We can all imagine that because these ships are driving around the ocean right now Self-propelled and there is no sailors on the battleships Now, of course, there's no sailors on the battleships There's also not going to be any pilots on the planes You know, in San Francisco where I am from we have taxis without taxi drivers We have trucks, big, you know, big trucks going down the highway without truck drivers We have grocery stores in the governor state without cashiers Okay, no cashiers in the grocery stores And we can kind of start to go on and on and on where we have militaries without, you know, without infantry And this is all possible through this incredible wave of new technology But when we look at that technology, that's when we really have to start to ask ourselves Well, okay, here's this amazing new AI technology You know, if I have access to this AI technology Maybe I'm going to be wealthier because I can, you know, trade currencies and this kind of thing better Maybe I'm going to be smarter because I have access to education and this kind of thing Maybe there's going to be something, maybe I'm going to be healthier Because, you know, all of my medical data is now being, you know, intelligently brought to me You know, through smart devices and through sensors So those are some powerful dimensions And you don't have to apply that individually You can also look at that organizationally You know, countries will be better with AI Countries or states will be better But what about the ones who do not have it, you see So that's when I would say, okay, you can put it all out there But then, hold on, this AI, is this going to be held by certain companies or certain countries? You know, we know there was a major nation state leader who said last week That the country that controls AI will control the world That was the Russian leader, wasn't it? So, you know, I think the question is that's out there, all right Which is, you know, I talked about this this morning Which is, you know, should we start thinking about this as AI as kind of a basic human right? If you go over to the United Nations, you know, they have a wall with the basic human rights And things that they believe in, is this going to be so fundamental to our society That every country should have, every person, every company should have some kind of democratized access That AI is a basic human right And that is a, you know, AI is not an SDG, you know, today But should it be, or should it be part of all the SDGs? Should there be a UN special envoy for AI? Is this big enough that over the next decade That we all need to be so focused to be able to provide this kind of democratization of it? So that's what's on, that's kind of the beginning, and I have another part of it I don't want to take it any more time Well, that's a fantastic set of questions and very provocative, and I think that No, you're going to answer them now, aren't you? No, my role, I'm just here to ask questions, I'm a journalist You guys are the experts So I'm going to turn to Sunil though, who can maybe find some answers I saw you shaking your head a couple of times as Mark was speaking Do you agree that AI is going to be the hot topic Then maybe we should be looking at more discussion about AI Do you like the idea of self-driving battleships Or do you think that there needs to be more done at the grassroots of, say, India Where you're very obviously involved To actually deal with the most basic steps of technology Well, you know, I'm a great believer of technology In fact, technology needs to drive, you know, the societies going forward But coming from the countries that I operate in India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Sub-Saharan Africa I think we'll leave the AI to Mark and the Western world to deal with It will eventually find its way into our economies But for us, technology is not a question of if and when It's got to be used now, because it's an imperative That countries that I operate in and many more similar countries Need to adopt fasts Most of the monies that the world has at its disposal Needs to be directed towards technologies That will ensure that the underdeveloped countries Low-developed countries, emerging markets Adopt use of these technologies My countries don't have the luxury of 30, 40, 50 years Of economic development to build their physical infrastructures Roads, ports, airports, et cetera They don't have that luxury But thankfully, they can mitigate their absence of those hard infrastructure By way of technology SDGs, if you look at them, eight of them talk about In some form or shape, financial inclusion India has, for example, 100,000 bank branches About 110,000 ATMs But today's society do not need those bank branches We don't need those brick and mortar We don't need ATMs Every low-cost smartphone is an ATM now My own company has 1.75 million outlets in India You just have to extend your arm And you have a shop, a cigarette vendor or a grocery shop Where you can vend money, you can dispense money You can pay, you can transfer money wherever you want On the mobile phone, we give micro-insurance You can give micro-credit The world has changed In the last four years, between 2011 and 2014-15 500 million people have got financial inclusion However, there are 2 billion people who have no access To any form of financial instrument But 1 billion of those have a mobile phone You can get them on as fast as we can And we are doing that The whole industry is doing that E-commerce has revolutionized the country Our logistics are very difficult, very expensive It's cut down on logistics, warehouses, intermediation All gone away, 40-50% reduction In prices have happened in the hands of customers Life expectancy has gone up Infant mortality has gone down Because of healthcare interventions through technology In my view, therefore Countries like India, which have adopted digital As one of the major platforms Our Prime Minister has taken upon himself As one of the big pillars is digital India In which he wants to connect everybody in the country In the shortest possible time frame And we are talking about 18-24 months Every Indian will have a phone in their hand On top of that, what has been done is Every Indian now has a national identity Which is linked to biometrics It takes you less than one minute Put your thumb in any place you go in India Every store will have a $20 device Put your thumb in, in one minute you are verified It's saving India alone $8 billion every year And that is on the back of that You are generating new services Which the government could have never Possibly delivered to its population So technology is an imperative We have no choice but to use technology I know there are fears around the world Some very significant people talk about What robots can do to humanity How technology can take away the Life out of societies In my own opinion, I would not worry About a robot coming and biting my backside I will brush in technology Right, well there is definitely an interesting split I must say between the western world Which tends to be much more concerned about technology Today and many developing countries Which are wildly enthusiastic Or even a country like Japan Which has a shrinking population Doesn't have the same attitude towards technology Like America But I'm curious, Marianne You're trying to take technology solutions From the UK, from elsewhere Into Africa and to try and do some of what Mital has been doing in India Tell us a bit about how you see this debate I'm sitting in between two of my heroes Mark is my hero because I used to sell His solutions to government in Africa And Mr Patel is one of my heroes Because every time I travel to Africa I see Airtel in every single airport I think one of the angles I would like to bring here Is the human centre aspect Mark is talking about the battleship But who's going to build the battleship for him I think right now we're forgetting Women and girls across the world And so my companies really focus on tech Going to Africa But I've been really focusing on women and girls Recently in the last couple of years How do you make sure women and girls Have what they say on the whole technology Industry, the digital world Completely forgotten So I live in the UK for example Where you have now amazing middle class Women who are digitally illiterate And so they're having the Senegalese woman Who never been to school So I've never been to school I started reading and writing when I was 16 years old And I learned how to code seven languages in two years And so now I'm the best python Coder in my company for example And so now you see skills Being transferred from the west To from Africa Kind of like to the west We just launched the code in China Where we're going and teaching Chinese girls And Japanese girls how to code And the whole conversation around technology Is shifting Where you see now technology is ageless Is borderless And it's classless It's not just the middle class Person who will have access to technology I've got my girls in Uganda coding two languages Aisha and Senegal code two languages From Java to Python Some young girls can't even code one language And so who's going to build My battle ship I think that's what my argument is And I think the second point is We need to talk about digital divide Marginalized communities Africa is leapfrogging You've got like Argentina Girls are coding now in Spanish And you do have so many coding languages Actually the west are so behind I get really worried actually for the west So technology will bring actually poverty Because women in the UK for example They feel they don't need to code They don't need to learn languages We will need in Africa on its own We will need one million coders by 2030 China on its own I saw Jack Ma in China where you have Chinese coders Coding from C sharp Where you have African coders sitting down in Uganda And in Lagos coding actually Python and Java The gap is so huge it's unbelievable So now you're going to find In the next 10 years That look into African India Will be completely different So my work is really based on that right now But also giving girls job How do you use technology for young girls To get the skills The fourth industrial revolution skills of tomorrow How do you make sure girls are building E-commerce sites in Senegal E-commerce sites in Burkina Faso Fashion and industry How do you make sure young women are participating in this And that really excites me at the moment And that's why I just really think that I'm going to make a forum and co-chairing the summit It's really crucial to give Women and girls the voice They need to be part of this industry That's fascinating. I would love to see I don't know if anyone's drawn up a heat map Showing the world And the sort of level of coding skills Per head of population or per capita It'll be fascinating to see that And see that by gender as well Because maybe someone in the room has done that Or seen that, but I've never seen that And I'd love to know where the greatest levels Of language or literacy actually were today And also across America Be fascinating to see that across America I mean, when you hear somebody saying Well, actually if the West doesn't get his act together Educationally wise They will end up being outcoded By lots of super smart kids In Uganda Or China or anywhere else How does that make you feel? And what are you doing To try and cope with some of these challenges, Governor? It makes me feel ignorant because I don't have An answer to that question totally First off, thank you for having me Thank you for being here. I raised Three teenage sons So anytime people act like They care about what I think about the future of the world It's unique in my life. So thank you very much For having me here So your question Goes To an equality issue And if I can Kind of pivot to the Twitter answers I can because your Twitter answers Show what I think of this whole Subject matter which is that We ought to be optimistic about The ability not only to grow The pie but actually to grow equality If we do things right We ought to be able to answer using technology The things that the Twitter answers Said were the most important. I was really intrigued About 70, 75% of the answers said Technology what they're most optimistic About is the ability to solve environmental challenges And we just came from our climate Summit with Jerry Brown and Mike Bloomberg in other words and Al Gore Talking about what we call A can do coalition It's a group of 14 states That are banded together to defeat climate change Even though the president has abandoned Efforts in that regard And I just think what the folks Said on your Twitter answers are right About being optimistic If we do three things Number one we focus on talent Which is the single most important thing In technological revolution in this industrial revolution And that's where guys like Me who are governors, state legislators Members of Congress coming in And new kind of talent development I'll just mention two things we're doing in Washington state Last week I went to the opening Of GIX It is a consortium of the University of Washington And Tsinghua University It's in Bellevue, Washington Microsoft is also a partner in it It is the first collaboration of a Chinese In an American university To really give people hands on ability To do project based learning In an entirely different way Of thinking about a university system And university research Second in state of Washington We're developing an apprenticeship program 60% of all the graduates From high schools in Switzerland Have an apprenticeship certification The day they get out of high school So they can go to work We should have our children have the same situation We're developing that We've now had the first 46 apprentices In coding in the United States And we're developing an apprenticeship program For coders Second issue is connectivity And I look at connectivity as just a secret Of maximizing technological benefit And I think of when the president Dropped his refugee Band and travel band on us It blocked a guy named Dr. Ala Alwan Who is a researcher with the World Health Organization From coming to a World Health Organization That Melinda Gates was helping Organized And preserving the connectivity Of peoples Is fundamental to the success Of technology Third is the idea of promoting innovation For the common And I think this is an important issue If innovation is just For those who can afford New consumer products An easier way to turn on your television An easier way to Monitor your refrigerator And stock your refrigerator And answer Solve the problems of humanity We have to drive policies that will Drive innovation to common problems That's why we're focusing On this climate alliance In driving innovation policies To drive technologies to solve Climate change Not just how to keep a pizza stock In my refrigerator That's an important issue too But we need to drive public investment Into those common problems That's fundamental but I believe we're going to succeed That's fascinating That's quite a nicely concise Call to arms I'm curious, I'd like to turn to you And ask about the environmental aspect Because as I said on the Twitter poll Out of people who were optimistic About technology 53% said they thought That sustainable energy would be The main area where technology helped Meet SDGs And 22% said environmental pollution And then 11% At plastics in the ocean So tell us how you're looking At the technology equation From the perspective of somebody Who is a leader in the field Of environmental resilience Let me start by corroborating The poll to say that there's no doubt Scientifically that a fourth Industrial revolution Is something we are embarking onto And that it's a necessity If we're serious about achieving Development goals So there's no doubt that we need This exponential rise in innovation And disruptive transformations In fact, decarbonizing the world economy In 33 years, which is A necessity to stay under 2°C The planetary guard well Is achieved or agreed upon in Paris Is a revolution To feed 9.5 billion co-citizens By 2050, 8.5 billion by 2030 Is A humanitarian revolution Moreover, it has to be sustainable and healthy So I would even argue that Just two blocks down when Heads of State signed the Sustainable Development Goals One reason why they made this Phenomenal accomplishment May have actually been that They didn't really understand what they signed Because it's such a phenomenal roadmap For people and planet Of revolutionary proportions But I think the key Message from science is the following We've had revolutions before We've had an agricultural revolution We've had an industrial revolution Which could operate on a resilient planet It didn't have to be sustainable In fact, the Earth system subsidized The previous industrial revolutions By allowing us to Over-exploit natural resources Undermine Biodiversity Overfished the oceans And moreover put so much pressure In the atmosphere and heat in the oceans That the whole system just Pushed our Damage and abundance under the carpet And could absorb without sending Any invoices back to the economy Now we have to reconfigure For the fourth industrial revolution For the first time ever It will certainly be another exponential journey You know, the previous revolutions Were so exponential that science today Invites humanity to a whole new Geological epoch, the Anthropocene Where we have become the human dominating Force of change at the planetary scale Now the fourth industrial revolution Will certainly also be exponential It has to be exponential for the human Side of our challenge But it has to succeed Within the safe operating space Of a stable and resilient Earth system Between the boundaries That science can today Set for a stable Earth system Now, is this A constraint on the fourth industrial revolution? Probably not Probably is signaling To innovators and entrepreneurs And all the big Industry and communities around the world That the depth of innovation Must be even more challenging If you want to digitalize mobility In the world and also Decarbonize it, it will be an even More rapid innovation pathway We've come so far in this that we Realized holding hands with Business and scientific community That we need to set science-based targets If operating space for the fourth industrial revolution If I may say so How we domesticate the fourth industrial revolution To keep it within the boundaries Of the Earth system That we're suggesting actually during this week That we now should set up an Earth commission An Earth commission with one task To bring forward the science-based Targets of the two degree Celsius Equivalence for climate For all the systems on the planet For the fourth industrial revolution On biodiversity, oceans, nitrogen, phosphorus Land, forest So that we know within What guardrails Do we now need to sort of say Operate this fourth industrial revolution So there's something new happening here Which is completely Novel in terms of the science-business Partnership in such a journey Right, well that's fascinating So an AI commission An Earth commission I'm curious, does anyone else From the panel have a strong view That come out this week in terms of Practical steps, so what do you think The top priority is as you look At the meetings this week Can I take a step? Yeah sure Governor, then Mark, you can upstage Look, we have so many Things humans deal with And as a governor I think it smacked me In the head by nine o'clock I've got three things that are Really important in the state of Washington But when you only have One singular planet with one Singular atmosphere That is quite a number of light years From the next exoplanet That might have habitable conditions On it, the issue Of whether or not we will have a Sustainable atmosphere and climate Has to be a Unifying, fundamental Number one priority For the species As a whole right now Because of all the other problems That we have No matter if we solved every problem From acne to, you know You name it, speeding That would be totally useless Without a sustainable system And our system That now sustains basic life On the planet is in dire jeopardy And if you doubt that Come to Seattle where Ash was following like the apocalypse Last week Where our forests are raging We're actually going underwater Where the glaciers are melting At unprecedented levels Our basic level of sustainable Is very much at risk And it's difficult for people In public life to talk in these Apocalyptic terms But it is the case And I've been thinking about A new way of talking about Climate disruption I spent a lot of time in my life As governor declaring emergencies When a whole mudslide of mountain Collapses during the biggest Rainstorms we've had I'm tired of declaring Temporary one-off emergencies We've got to look at this as a planetary Emergency And there's no other way to think about it That is adequate to the task at hand So when I think about The fourth industrial revolution There's many revolutions we have to have But decarbonizing The world economy has to be Fundamental because everything else will fail And I'm glad that We got a UN that's working on this I'm not proud that Our president has wanted us to put us in League with Syria on this And I don't blame Nicaragua, they didn't sign Because they wanted a stronger Measure than Paris So I'm going to Nominate that I think Johann's got someone who's going to sign up To the Earth Commission straight away You're welcome as a commissioner Or Mark and Machia I think what I would like to see is We need to start decoding the sustainable development goals At the moment we're talking about sustainable development goals And it's not really human centric at the moment So I would like to see The goals being decoded at the human level Especially the grass root The people who are the recipients Of all these goals, the targets And the indicators in the end I really would like to see that And also involve the women and the girls You have the industries They are desperate to find skilled people What are we going to do For the next 5, 10 years If we don't have skilled people Who understand how to collect data For example, I love technology And my girls in Africa around the world They love technology And why should we not use the sustainable development goals As a way of breaking the barriers And giving them the tools they need To become prosperous Mark Thank you I just want to make two basic points One is As we look at this Huge expansion of technology And what's going on We have to pivot back to our own humanity And the only way we're going to Get through this is by all working together That includes All stakeholders One of the reasons I love the World Economic Forum Is because For business For your shareholders It's about your stakeholders And the environment Education Gender equality These are all our critical stakeholders I really think until we shift our consciousness To realize that we are all responsible for this So we cannot rely on Our government leaders Our business leaders Our NGO leaders Everyone has to be part of it At Salesforce, when I look at something Kind of connected together The environment is equality We know what happens When the environment goes wrong Because you see the inequalities That it has created and it will create You saw that in the Hurricanes even But that's one of the reasons we accelerated Our NetZero programs We're now 100% NetZero At Salesforce We're the first NetZero cloud We're the fourth largest software company In the world We're NetZero That means every other technology company Can be NetZero But we have to make that decision We talk about education And I think you said it really well Education is also equality To me it's all bundled into the same world And back where I am In San Francisco where we have our headquarters And I look at our public school systems Which have Significant challenges We have a private commitment To put $100 million into our San Francisco and Oakland school districts And also Hundreds of thousands of hours of volunteerism Getting our employees to work in the school districts As well As well as providing all the technology And infrastructure experience as well We're $34 million already invested Towards our $100 million goal To me That is because Salesforce is about equality Because this very much is the age of quality If you're not pivoting to equality If you know decarbonization In my opinion Is not only the right thing for the planet It is equality If we don't have it, we're going to have Vast levels of inequality And a lot of the things that have been touched on Including workforce development Where we've called for 5 million apprenticeships In the United States Or gender equality Making sure that women are not only Given great opportunity and advancement Is also equality So that's where I think we really have to Say, okay, this is the critical shift And this is the value that we can bring Into our organizations Into our world that will let us Accelerate this movement Sunil We talked about this earlier in the UN We need to write a new language We need to start pinning down In the end, the practitioners have to Deal with this and that's the large business community That's the corporations, that's the small And medium enterprises Emerging markets Underdeveloped countries Necessarily have to develop And that would mean pressure On national resources Pressure on fossil fuel All sorts of issues coming to play Because their question is We haven't had the chance to grow For the last 30, 40, 50 years We have been left behind, we need to catch up For our societies. The good news there is That even countries like India And you heard Vice President I'll go to the talk about India Committing itself to be 100% Electric vehicles by 2030 So maybe it's a tall order Maybe it will not be 2030, it will be 2035 or 40, I don't know But it's a good target to put up By even countries like India Which are consuming only half a barrel Per capita oil a year As opposed to 28 barrels of oil Per capita in the US Despite that India is saying To me completely electric 125 gigawatts of solar And wind power is being committed By the Prime Minister And we are taking off solar like anything Solar prices have gone down Below the grid power now It can be done, but in the end I have to say without technology We cannot get there Celebrate technology, adopt technology Embrace technology And yes, the governor is right here Would countries like mine Or not? Absolutely not There is so much to do But there is stuff to be done in frugal innovation You can do very low-cost frugal innovation For the betterment of societies We need leadership as well We need leadership like Companies like Salesforce where you have the CEOs We are mobilizing government, private sector And investors to invest in STEM education And I think if you want to advance STEM education, especially for women and girls We need to have leaders who actually Will commit to millions of dollars Who actually go and skill people Right now we are in shortage We are in deficit of technology skills Especially in Europe and the United States We don't have coders, we don't have people Who understand the languages So they copy and paste And so we will have a massive problem in the next 5-10 years Where you have people who actually don't understand technology And they think technology is Facebook and Twitter So we just need to start thinking about What is the sustainable development goals for And how can we build the skills To give dignity to people I can see you are waiting patiently at the end You know the following may come across As a bit basic kind of an academic testimony But you know the spirit Of this panel and what Governors is sharing with us here Is so representative of what we In the scientific community is feeling so strong In the past only 5, 6, 7 years That the whole Environmental agenda Sustainability has crossed a tipping point From being this big sacrifice Of the trench war Of what you are willing to pay To protect the environment To be the pathway towards equity Towards progress Towards prosperity Basically world 2.0 I am a professor of environmental science I would even argue let's stop Talking about the environment I mean there is no such thing really as the environment What we are talking about Is human prosperity Human well-being and human equity Of us as a world To survive and prosper on this planet Earth now that we filled up The entire system and that the pathway To succeed is the fourth industrial Revolution that takes sustainability As the end to point for Innovation and disruptive Transformation and I get Always a bit really You know frustrated when We end up having these debates Being okay so now the environmental community Or the environmental NGOs Have kind of succeeded in some Demonstration in the corner here or there That we are way past that We really are we are just like Governor Says in a position where this is about How will Washington or how will A state in the US or how will the world Succeed with it's our development I think it's time to really take That fully on and the world economic Form is the perfect place for that Well thank you well we are sadly out Of time but before we go We started with some Twitter Comments from the world Economic forum a poll We're going to end perhaps you can Tea up the rolling presentation With some comments of the world Economic forum also gathered From its constituents As I said somewhat self selecting But I can suggest that maybe as We bring the session to a close We can see the comments because They are quite provocative and Quite a good way to end and To think about where we go from now I must say as you see them coming But as you see them coming up My two favourites probably are these One is one from Ursula Becker Which says technology Change without social change Is a curse which I think captures Very well the challenge we all face And last but not least I think Mark Benioff's comment Summed it up very well Technology is not good or bad Is what we do with it that matters AI is a gift I'm not Sure necessarily self driving But anyway leaving that aside May we use technology For the betterment of all mankind I think that's one sentiment that we Can all agree and let's hope the World Economic Forum this week pushes That goal forward so thank you And do continue to ponder these Sentiments as they come across Thanks to the panel