we are wondering what is happening to the world everything is changing the very idea of human being some sortof natural concept is really going to change. our bodies will be so high techwe won't be able to really distinguish between what's natural and what'sartificial inside our own heads is the most complexarrangement of matter in the known universe you might ask yourself can we get to besuper humans
the original industrial revolution wasdriven by the discovery that you could use the steam engines to do all kinds ofinteresting things. but that was followed by additional revolutions forelectricity and computers and communications technology we're now in the early stages of thefourth industrial revolution which is bringing together digital, physical and biological systems one of the features of this fourthindustrial revolution is that it doesn't change what we are doing
but it changes us. with the ability tovisualize brain activity for example through a simple consumer base eg devicebecause access to ourselves in ways that we've never before thought possible itunlocks the black box that is brain and enables us to really truly be able torealize an identity that is aspirational there's now a scientific foundation forthe effects of mindfulness, on the brain, on the genome, on biological aging . whenthe human mind does know itself then you get the potential for a new renaissancethat restructures itself in terms of our relationship to life our relationship tothe planet our relationship to work we
need a different economic model by thati don't mean capitalism versus communism what i'm talking about is a shift in thesystem along the lines of the two big changesthat happened in the 20th century keynesianism was a much greater focus onhealth and education and the role of government working with business andthen a reaction against that in late century to neo-liberalism where thefocus was in free markets, freedom of the individual getting government out of theway we need shift to a new system that will allow us to meet the basic needs ofevery human on the planet that will live within planetary means that will be fairerand that will be focused as its key goal
not on growth per se but on maximizinghuman well-being and history tells us that our values shift is triggered bycreation of a new story about how we want to live i see the circular economy is somethingwhich fits very closely with mankind's goal to be innovative and creative andto always progress we can use asset tracking, the it, we can use 3dprinting to enable this different economic model to recover materials, feedthem back into the economy and really to decouple growth from the resultsconstraints we have the reason we live in cities is notdifferent today than it was ten thousand
years ago even if you have got networks connectingus, we still want to have places where we meet in person. this means the place where we work and the place where we live are much closer to each other in a city where we don'tneed to have big supply chains in order to produce things with many things canbe sourced locally thanks to 3d printing and robotics if we're able to do something totransform cities to make it more efficient than the impact can be huge
think about the prospect of getting ridof plastic we must not only be inspired or informed by nature, but actually usenatural organisms with which to design products and building parts only instead of varying material properties, we are varying biological functionality. design is critical today because it'sthe first signal of human intention but the question of adding quality toquantity, it isn't a matter of simply circulating two things that are actuallytoxic it's circulating things that are safeand healthy for all generations so the goal is no longer
"i want to be less bad, less monotonous,less unsafe, less unjust". it's really about diverse, safe, healthy and justworld with clean air, clean wate,r clean soil, clean energy together we're fighting to preserve ourfragile climate from irreversible damage and devastation of unthinkable proportions. we think about the original industrialrevolution it was an energy revolution i like to think of it as a kind of bookending of a period in human history during which we use fossil fuels and itworked very well for us for a long time
but now we have to bring that to an endwe have energy technologies that can power our civilization solar windbiomass so then the question is well how do weget pretty integration maybe the wind is blowing in denmark the sun is shining in germany and nowyou can move that electricity through an integrated grid you can supply energyto everyone who needs it and you can supply energy at all times walking around, you do see differentstuff, like the body marriage line they use a lot of things that help themlift up and move things to the car
you just sit there and you know programsomething and it has its own set mind to go ahead and do everything and then as humans we just come in and take the extra step to help the technology it's not the the cure-all for everythingthere's definitely a lot of things where people perform the operation better butcertainly for the right application robotics and then our huge improvementfor the process the prediction of 5 million jobs lost by2020 to technology is serious but it's not the main question construction, manufacturing, services,public health and education
these industries will still exist themain question is what will be the future of work how we define work how we sharethe will from the viewpoint of the labor of whatjobs my idea we get need a new education for newtraining we're working with a world in motion andfirst robotics trying to encourage your students from third grade all the way upthrough the end of high school we had students make sailboats and then we haveraised them and so they can see how quickly they could move and theyimmediately went back and started to say oh i saw what happened i'm gonna gochange this or that and that was third
graders i just given a prize to exceed the 18years old that has discovered something really very very unique came up with howto get better productivity and better yields for seeds of corn and so hebasically came with the idea that if you would perforate these seeds you wouldget more food and iyou think about they say but he didn't go to university so how does it get all that knowledgeand he told me i mean i have been watching youtube since the age of 12 and i'm so interested that i've seeneverything about it i've read everything
about it the world is really open to learning the thing is how do you give incentive to your kids to do that it's this ability of digital technologyto change outcomes to truly empower people all over the world that cancreate a more equitable growth because i think the world needs that. fourth industrial revolution has the potential to make inequalities visible, need tomake them less acceptable in the future and hopefully to gather andgarner political support to take the necessary decision to reduce the gap
humans have always been using tools butbecause of the recent advances in technology we are beginning to havemachines that can augment us in all sorts of interesting ways i was the first person in the world tobe able to voluntarily move my legs was stepping in a robot exciting the nervoussystem using electrical stimulators directly to the spine we believe that the cure will bepossible if enough of the right people have the world to fast-track a cure forparalysis we take two things from the patient'sfirst we take a three dimensional x-ray
and we extract the three-dimensionaldata out of that so we can make a perfectly shaped puzzle piece and thenwe also take a sample of fat tissue from the patient so that we can extract thestem cells out of those and we use those stem cells with this three-dimensionalscaffold that we fabricate and after three weeks we have a piece of livingbone that's ready for implantation. being able to use genome editing to understand the genetic changes that lead to cancer and technologies like a drug deliverygetting molecules into particular types of cells there's a lot of excitement about beingable to move much more quickly on this
disease one of the things that i think is soessential to free and open societies as freedom of thought and up until now the conversation we'vebeen having is around freedom of speech once we can access people's thoughts andaccess people's emotions we have to create a space that enablespeople to think freely to think divergent thoughts, to think creativethoughts and in a society where people fear having those thoughts the likelihood of being able to enjoyprogress and significantly diminished
we need to take responsibility at everylevel of society from the individual in the person's of the institutional to theglobal with that to these technological challenges and changes which areredefining what it means to be human what it means to work what it means tobe completely embedded in this world people always ask me if i'm an optimistor a pessimist the technology exists but how do we get it and implemented at thescale we need at a price that people
3d printing will change the world,around the world can afford even thoughwe have everyday problems we have to solve
we have to find a way to lay the foundations for theinnovations of tomorrow.
