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AI, Robotics, Digitalization & Technology: Innovation on the Rise

Dubbed the ‘Second Machine Age’, the period we are now entering will be characterized by a new wave of automation, digitalization and robotization.

#Forwardism: Adjiedj Bakas and Vinco David
  • What does the future of AI, Robotics, Digitalization & Technology look like?
  • How could AI Facial Recognition make airport logistics, boarding processes, shopping and entertainment options less bureaucratic and more customer-friendly?
  • What two major geopolitical developments are powering the ‘Technetronic Revolution’ — a revolution in technology?
  • How can the hi-tech combination of AI, Robotics, Digitalization & Technology advance further, making most administrative jobs redundant, and making many other industries more efficient.
  • Will technology make the boring and mundane more fun?
  • How does the rise of AI and Machine Learning now lead to automation in areas that were formerly the province of humans: observing and drawing conclusions, reasoning and deciding?
  • In the Second Machine Age, are we more likely to see Keynesian ‘technological unemployment’ be a (semi) permanent feature in many societies.?
  • Are machines really stealing our jobs?
  • Is the wider public losing sympathy for technology-based businesses?

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#Forwardism: Adjiedj Bakas and Vinco David
  • How does hi-tech innovation enable cybercriminals to operate?
  • How is digital crime causing enormous damage to business and governments everywhere?
  • Why must we prepare ourselves for more digital crises in the future?
  • How does the competition between VHS and Betamax videotape formats in earlier decades represent the 21st century’s Digitization and Industry 4.0 revolution?
  • Why does technology have two standards: the Western and the Chinese?
  • Are Aerohaptic Holograms on their way?
  • Have technology and globalization created a workplace that is no longer bound to a specific geographical location?
  • Could digital collaboration become a new standard that creates a disconnect between the worker and their workplace?
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At a time when more people are likely to lose their jobs to computers and robots, our intimate relationship with modern technology could go sour.

#Forwardism: Adjiedj Bakas and Vinco David
  • Why must we reintroduce the human factor into work to foster creativity and innovation?
  • What new risks and dangers accompany ongoing digitization?
  • How do societal, legal, ethical and economic barriers to technology give working populations time to adapt to new circumstances?
  • Why must there be significant investments and societal change to ensure the workforce reskills and upskills?
  • Why does extra training prevent permanent unemployment that swells the disenfranchised, angry ranks of those who feel they lost out to progress?
  • How is the new technological revolution not limited to one sector, but rather stretches across the whole economy?
  • Why are low-skilled employees needed where wages are low and the cost of investing in machines is high?
  • Why are jobs that rely on intellectual or emotional ability, as well as creativity, difficult to automate?

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