 I think we live in a world today where there's maybe not a lack of money or technology, but a lack of imagination, how we want the future world to look like. And we've heard all the other speakers. I think it's very, very interesting. If we can't imagine it, we won't get there. We first have to construct it in our brain, think about it, try it out to prototype in order to get there. Our brain first has to imagine it. We want to take you on a little tour to sort of feel how that future can look like, how it can feel like, how we can experience. And most of all, how do we get there? Well, how I got there is very simple. I put some people in a smart room ten years ago with a pizza roll line and a dead line, and we got to work. So this is the studio in Rotterdam in the Netherlands, a team of designers and engineers, project managers, an old glass factory that renovated, where we make these landscapes of the future. And we try and learn, and fail, and as a son of a math teacher, I mean, I love science, I love technology. I think that's just a great tool to make those ideas come true. But what I really think what drives me personally is not so much about beautifying or decorating, and using design to sort of glamorize the existing world. It's about reforming. So world economic reform, and the thing to take in Geneva, which organizes Davos, and I'm part of that as a young global leader, then research what are the top ten skills you and I need to become successful. So this is the bottom 20. I'm going to give you the shortcut here. So look at this. Number three, creativity. Number two, critical thinking. Number one, problem solving, complex problem solving. All the things, a robot or a computer are really bad. And so this is very interesting. As technology is taking over our taxi driver, our garbage collection, our accountancy, our energy bill, does that mean that we will become robots? No. It means that our human skills, our desire to learn, our desire to create, our desire to share, why are we here today? These are the human skills computers are really bad at. So I would believe that as we will live in this hyper technological world, our creativity and our creative thinking is the true capital. And so the moment you invest in those skills and you value those skills, you become future proof. So you will go to a design museum on them, for example, not only because it's a great museum with a history and it's interesting, but it trains certain parts of your brain that separation from the machines. Clean air, clean water, clean energy, clean space. These, for me, are the values that we have to raise. Everything you design, a car, a city, a jacket, food, needs to have those values, always forget. So let's talk about clean water. I'm from Holland, from the Netherlands. And as you may know, we live below Singapore. My Chinese friends, when they visit, they say, you are crazy. Who lives below sea level? Just move to Germany. There are no higher ground. But we don't. And more than a thousand years, we've developed a system of irrigation, of dykes, of water management to create our own home. So it's very interesting. Our whole landscape is designed and is managed in a way. Without it, we would literally drown. But sometimes, even the Dutch, forget. And so the water council, who manages all the water management, came to me and asked, can you make something to create water awareness, rising sea level, the importance of climate change? And therefore, we created what you see here, a combination of lens and lenses, which shows how high water level would be. We can stop. We all sort of know that the world is changing. And as Sir David also said in his lecture, we know the numbers and somehow the numbers, they don't help us change enough. So we started to visualize it and started to flow public spaces all around the world. Pretty spooky. Spacey, yeah. What I feel about it is a bit underwater, because you're under a layer. Yeah, pretty, I think. With the waves above us. And it's magnificent. Of course I know we're under sea level, but as you said, it wouldn't be so nice if I suddenly felt this. 60,000 people showed up in one night in Amsterdam. And this is very interesting. How do we create experiences where people are not just scared of the future but are curious and come together and some people are a bit scared because they experienced floods in 1953 and almost floods in 1995. And they left. They didn't like it at all. But most people were more optimistic and were talking about that. Should we build floating cities? Or can we generate energy from the changing in times? But most of all the notion of wonder. I want to create places where people somehow feel connected to this new reality, to this world where we live in. And I think the power of these eyes and imagination is a great way to activate that. Clean air. Our cities in a weird, weird, weird, weird way have become machines that are killing us. For me there's no easier way of saying, if you live downtown Dublin or London or here in Beijing next to a highway, it's the same 17, 17 cigarettes per day as you pass to me in hell. Without the pleasure of the dignity. And it's a bad deal. When did we say yes to death? So I think we all have a right for clean air. Yes. We have a right. That should be our human right. But we also have a sort of role for clean air. It's not just waiting for government or policy long term. Which is true. But at the same time we should act today. So I'm not a minister. I cannot say 20 billion euro in green energy today. This is upsetting my scope. I cannot do that. I'm a designer. I'm an engineer. What can I do? And looking outside my window in Beijing five years ago, I remembered being, you know, like, what's this? Remembering when I was this boy playing with a plastic balloon polishing it with my hand. It becomes, this is not rhetorical by the way. What happens when you polish a plastic balloon with your hand? It becomes static, thank you. It becomes static electrified. It becomes quick. It attracts your hair. And I have always been amazed by that. You know, it's like a gift from planet Earth, from nature, from science. Whatever you use that principle to literally build the largest small vacuum cleaner in the world, which starts up into the air, cleans it, and releases it. So this is how these projects start. Unhindered by any kind of knowledge. So you put some smart people in a room. You get the experts. What it is, but it has to be ready in four months. And that's what we did. So we built the first one in Rotterdam. It sucks up 30,000 cubic meter per hour, capturing the P and 2.5 B in 10 nanoparticles, running on solar energy, and therefore releasing clean air. So we have parts which are 20 to 70 percent more clean than the rest of the city. The city becomes a machine that kills us. Let's build a machine that can help us, that can heal us. That's how it's called. How much? How much? And it became part of their world's walk. Long-term investment in green energy, electrical cars, more bicycles. But also, bottom-up solutions for today. Local clean air parts. One tower is not the solution of the whole city. Of course not. But by creating a place where you can share the difference, where you can show the difference, is a way to have a top-down bottom-up, meeting in the middle. This is in Krakow in Poland. One of the most polluted cities in Europe. As this project was growing, in Mexico, China, India, Poland. This is a beautiful one in Poland. Beautiful snow. And this is very interesting, because I arrived at the day of the opening. And on the left you see Nick, he's the project manager. And he was running the show. So he picked me up at the airport. And I'm like, okay, so what's up? Yeah, it's all good. Beautiful snow. So we arrived outside. And I saw tens of those dogs hanging out around the tower. And they looked really happy. And it was like this weird David Linge movie I walked into. Like this secret meeting I wasn't invited for. So I'm like, what are these dogs doing here? And my project manager says, I don't know. I haven't noticed it. I'm like, well, we had three hours before opening. And we did. It's very interesting how you have to keep on looking. You get these little presents, but you can't see them. And we realized after two, three hours, of course, dogs have a very high sense of smell. And they can smell, what is it, 200 times better than a human being. So they were suffering from the smog, like way more. And somehow, somewhere, they could smell the clean air from far, far away. They would start to abandon their owner and hang out around the tower. And you see, that one was really happy. It was the tail. This one tries to be happy, but it's too small. So if animals can sense what is good for us, why can humans not? We learn this is making a smog. This is the stuff from the polluted, urban skies. We believe waste should not exist. William and Donald went to cradle 30 years ago. Hello? Waste for one should be food for the other. Somehow we never learned. This book is in my brain. So I looked at this incredible, disgusting case of death, put it on a microscope, and realized 42% is carbon. Carbon on the high pressure you get. Diamonds, that's interesting. Inspired by that, we compressed it by hand for 30 minutes and started to make swamp-free rings. So we're sharing a ring. You donate 1,000 cubic meters of clean air to the city where the towers are. And this was very interesting, because at that time, in this time, in this world, two balloons is still for free. In a way, we're talking about carbon tax, it will come one day, but two balloons is still for free. So we had a budget problem. Everybody was interested. But what is the price of clean air? Nobody knows. So as we put this on Kickstarter, crowdfunding campaign, and so the money that we made, the finance we made, helped to build more swamp-free towers. And that is really powerful. That somehow the waste was the activator, it was the enabler. But besides the money, because of the way money is everywhere, it was community. A couple of weeks later, these photos were sent to us Tuesday morning, 8 a.m., where he proposed us to her with the swamp-free ring. As a sign of beauty, as a sign of hope. And this is not accurate. New York Times validated this real wedding couple. And I sometimes stick with them and I call them, they're still good. She said yes to him, not really, but to him. I don't know, that lady is on the top. And this is really beautiful. So yes, we need science, we need money, we need technology. Our only money, will just make us lazy. We're not janitors. We're not just maintaining anything. There should also be the notion of love, of something that excites you. Like a story, something that you come home and you're like, whoa. And I think that's really important the moment you connect those two worlds of science, technology, with poetry and storytelling, you create impact. Green energy. Bright Holland, Rotterdam, my own hometown. As I said before, we live below sea level. This is our Eiffel Tower. This is our Chinese wall. This is... What's Holy in Dublin? Come on, what's Holy in Dublin? What's the most iconic? Guinness, no, that's not Guinness. Okay, Guinness, fine. A control capital next year, Galway, that's her library. That's her library. Surely, we are not allowed to touch, but because of rising sea level, renovation, it was neither renovation and the Minister of Infrastructure came to me and said, this is not just a landscaping machine. Can you help us to show the beauty of this icon? We looked at what was already there. History. Built rock by rock. Hand, hand made, you know. Crazy, beautiful. 16 of these flunk gates were standing there which opened and closed the walls of water. In this veil, we died. Built by hand in 1932, a near-closer berg. The first architect was invented or invited by the Dutch government to think aesthetically about functional objects. And he was also the grandfather of Rem Colas, the famous Dutch architect. We decided to renovate them, make them look like temples again. But also wanted to do something with light, with energy, poetry, all these great words. And then the municipality came in and said, that's all great, beautiful, but no maintenance. We're like, what? No maintenance. When you use a lot of technology, it's going to break down, the salt, the rain, you have to shut down the road, forget it. So we had to sort of zoom out and rethink the way we were approaching the project. And on the windy Thursday evening we were there as we were walking on this very cold diet we realized, of course, there's a really light present on this highway, which is the light of the, it's very good, that two meters of two days to figure that one out. The light of the cars. That's interesting. Inspired by the wind of the butterfly, reflection, headlights dragging our minister of infrastructure into the story and daytime, no solar panel. The vision of the headlights creates an energy neutral landscape and this is permanent, you can visit it every night. It's just like really these kind of projects are very intense collaboration in this case with Hygiene, one of the largest infrastructure companies in the Netherlands, 100,000 people. Not a company which has the billions of euros R&D money on the bank like BMW or Tesla, but seeing how we realized they needed to invest in new ideas to survive and they team up with people like me to make these kind of projects happen together. Last one. What are we looking at? I'm curious if you know this one. What are we looking at? It's a good answer, but it's the wrong one. Guys, I showed it to you in the list at the beginning. Come on. A little bit more specific, what kind of? I'm not gonna say it. So what is the thing in the middle? That's the earth. Okay, I'm spoiling it. So what's the stuff around it? Satellites. Very good. This is the 8.1, or it's actually very bad, but the answer is good. This is the 8.1 million kilo of space junk which is currently floating around our universe. So somehow we're not satisfied ruining our planet earth. We just sort of keep on continuing outside our earth atmosphere. Polo-8, Sputnik, pieces of satellites and missiles started to collide and created a layer of junk. Tiny particles, although very small have an incredible high speed and therefore are like malls when they hit existing satellites and become a threat for our day-to-day communication. The future with 5G and more backing and no more internet and no more Instagram. So we started to steam up with ASA launching the Spaceways Lab to visualize, capture and upside. For 20 years we really smartly realized what we live in a world where the pollutant is for free and cleaning up is not fun. How can we change that? So we started to track to visualize where the spaceways real time is above your head. And everybody sort of agrees that a net and with a small cube satellite, 20 nets like a spider web to capture the space junk is the most realistic solution. Not proven yet, but the expert world from ASA and NASA says that we have a big problem like ok this is all great but nobody wants to pay. Cleaning up is not fun like when you were a boy or girl and your mom says and your dad says clean up your room he's like yeah whatever I'll have my ice cream I'll watch my television I'll have my little popcorn cleaning up is not fun and I think this was really interesting because they're like super smart but what I can do is add a new perspective a new dimension so we said ok once you've captured it maybe it's not a problem but an ingredient can be used in 3D print houses on the moon which NASA has already scheduled to do but it's just shipping very expensive stuff from Earth all the way up. Website light or here once in a controlled re-entry wave it hits near the atmosphere what happens then is burns so that's interesting waste is light can we use that to create from space waste artificial shooting stars as a replacement for fireworks and the fingers yes we can Dubai is spending 8.1 million euro per year on fireworks and then 17 million euro fireworks traditional fireworks very polluting people lose their eye etc so what we're doing is saying just take that budget and spend it on this clean up space and you have a new way of fireworks and they're almost saying yes that's really interesting to conclude I talked about clean air clean water clean energy clean space and maybe for some of you what you mentioned in the soviet time like this perfect world a rainbow in the sky that we will never ever reach and I don't think that's true and that's not the reason why I'm doing this I believe in prototype a term coined by Kevin Kelly in the founder of the wire magazine where we prototype where we learn where we're gonna make a mistake where we're gonna fail where we're gonna learn from that again and we're gonna upgrade and somehow find a way of making it happen it's not about being right but it's about realizing that we have to invest in new ideas to survive we have to trigger that imagination of how we want that future world to look like and that starts today not tomorrow alright thank you