1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:09,000 Let's also be clear. The future is not just happening. The future is built by us. 2 00:00:09,000 --> 00:00:14,679 You know, the whole idea that humans have, you know, this, they have this soul or spirit 3 00:00:14,679 --> 00:00:20,500 and they have free will and nobody knows what's happening inside me. So whatever I... 4 00:00:20,500 --> 00:00:24,539 whether in the election or whether in the supermarket, this is my free will, that's 5 00:00:25,140 --> 00:00:30,739 Today, we have the technology to hack human beings on a massive scale. 6 00:00:30,739 --> 00:00:34,939 Yeah, I mean, everything is being digitalized. Everything is being monitored. 7 00:00:34,939 --> 00:00:38,039 In this time of crisis, you have to follow science. 8 00:00:38,039 --> 00:00:40,340 Decarbonization of the economy. 9 00:00:40,340 --> 00:00:44,340 Where are they traveling? How are they traveling? What are they eating? 10 00:00:44,340 --> 00:00:50,739 What are they consuming on the platform? So individual carbon footprint tracker. 11 00:00:50,840 --> 00:00:54,840 Stay tuned, we don't have it operational yet, but this is something that we're working on. 12 00:00:54,840 --> 00:00:58,539 I mean, my top recommendation, honestly, would be just to have a carbon tax. 13 00:00:58,539 --> 00:01:03,240 It's often said that you should never allow a good crisis to go to waste because a crisis 14 00:01:03,240 --> 00:01:09,939 is an opportunity to also do good reforms that in normal times people will never agr... 15 00:01:09,939 --> 00:01:13,740 But in a crisis, you see we have no chance. So let's do it. 16 00:01:13,839 --> 00:01:21,039 Surveillance. People could look back in a hundred years and identify the coronavirus... 17 00:01:21,039 --> 00:01:29,339 as the moment when a new regime of surveillance took over, especially... 18 00:01:29,339 --> 00:01:34,239 which I think is maybe the most important development of the 21st century, 19 00:01:34,239 --> 00:01:42,039 is this ability to hack human beings, to go under the skin, collect biometric data, 20 00:01:42,040 --> 00:01:46,240 analyze it and understand people better than they understand themselves. 21 00:01:46,240 --> 00:01:50,840 This, I believe, is maybe the most important event of the 21st century. 22 00:01:50,840 --> 00:01:57,340 By hacking organisms, elites may gain the power to re-engineer the future of life... 23 00:01:57,340 --> 00:02:02,040 Because once you can hack something, you can usually also engineer it. 24 00:02:02,040 --> 00:02:09,939 Natural selection is replaced by intelligent design. The era of inorganic life is now... 25 00:02:10,039 --> 00:02:17,639 In the coming decades, AI and biotechnology will give us godlike abilities to re-engin... 26 00:02:17,639 --> 00:02:20,939 and even to create completely new life forms. 27 00:02:20,939 --> 00:02:28,139 We are about to enter a new era of inorganic life shaped by intelligent design. 28 00:02:28,139 --> 00:02:30,439 Our intelligent design. 29 00:02:30,439 --> 00:02:35,240 Nobody will be safe if not everybody is vaccinated. 30 00:02:35,540 --> 00:02:36,840 Are you vaccinated? 31 00:02:36,840 --> 00:02:37,439 Yes. 32 00:02:37,439 --> 00:02:38,040 If I may ask. 33 00:02:38,040 --> 00:02:42,240 Yeah, I'm very pro-vaccination. The science is unequivocal. 34 00:02:42,240 --> 00:02:48,840 The difference of this first industrial revolution is it doesn't change what you a... 35 00:02:48,840 --> 00:02:55,140 It changes you. If you take genetic editing, just as an example, 36 00:02:55,140 --> 00:03:00,240 it's you who are changed. And of course, this has a big impact on your identity. 37 00:03:00,240 --> 00:03:07,640 Can you imagine that in 10 years when we are sitting here, we have an implant in our... 38 00:03:07,640 --> 00:03:12,840 and I can immediately feel, because you all will have implants, 39 00:03:12,840 --> 00:03:19,939 I can measure your brain waves and I can immediately tell you how the people react 40 00:03:19,939 --> 00:03:26,840 or I can feel how the people react to your answers. Is it imaginable? 41 00:03:26,840 --> 00:03:31,039 Just think of sensors planted into our brains. 42 00:03:31,039 --> 00:03:33,740 Basically implanted in your skull. 43 00:03:33,740 --> 00:03:38,840 So, but it would be flush with your skull. 44 00:03:38,840 --> 00:03:47,140 So you basically take out a chunk of skull, replace, put the neural link device in there. 45 00:03:47,140 --> 00:03:53,340 You put the electrode, you'd insert the electrode threads very carefully into the... 46 00:03:53,439 --> 00:03:57,640 To build basically an interface to the brain. 47 00:03:57,640 --> 00:04:03,939 Yeah, electrode to neuron interface at a micro level. 48 00:04:03,939 --> 00:04:07,140 Okay, what is it? Like I'm gonna have like a plug in my head that's gonna fit into a ha... 49 00:04:07,140 --> 00:04:07,740 Like how does that work? 50 00:04:07,740 --> 00:04:10,840 Yeah, yeah, a chip and a bunch of tiny wires. 51 00:04:10,840 --> 00:04:14,740 This would be implanted surgically and it would do what? 52 00:04:14,740 --> 00:04:17,740 Could you input? Could you download gym? 53 00:04:17,740 --> 00:04:20,240 Yes. 54 00:04:20,240 --> 00:04:27,040 The long-term aspiration for neural networks would be to achieve a symbiosis with... 55 00:04:27,040 --> 00:04:33,040 What we have seen so far, it's corporations and governments collecting data about wher... 56 00:04:33,040 --> 00:04:35,939 who we meet, what movies we watch. 57 00:04:35,939 --> 00:04:40,540 The next phase is the surveillance going under our skin. 58 00:04:40,540 --> 00:04:51,840 COVID is critical because this is what convinces people to accept, to legitimize... 59 00:04:51,840 --> 00:04:56,640 One of the things that I think is so essential to free and open societies is... 60 00:04:56,640 --> 00:05:00,439 And up until now, the conversation we've been having is around freedom of speech. 61 00:05:00,439 --> 00:05:04,040 Once we can access people's thoughts and access people's emotions, 62 00:05:04,040 --> 00:05:08,140 we have to create a space that enables people to think freely. 63 00:05:08,240 --> 00:05:21,839 What the fourth industrial revolution will lead to is a fusion of our physical, our... 64 00:05:21,839 --> 00:05:30,439 It is important to use the COVID-19 crisis as a timely opportunity. 65 00:05:30,540 --> 00:05:36,540 So people assume we are just going back to the good old world which we had, 66 00:05:36,540 --> 00:05:43,540 and everything will be normal again in how we are used to normal in the old fashion. 67 00:05:43,540 --> 00:05:47,740 This is, let's say, fiction. It will not happen. 68 00:05:47,740 --> 00:05:59,540 The cut which we have now is much too strong in order not to leave traces. 69 00:05:59,540 --> 00:06:04,240 The future is not just happening. The future is built by us.