I want you to be part of an exciting
experiment with me today in the next few
minutes I’m going to play two audio
clips and if you recognize any of those
sounds please raise your hand and say I
now a fair bit of warning before we get
started each of these sounds represents
the pleasure of millions of people
worldwide and they also represent
torture for many depending on where you
come from
so I’ll be ready let’s play clip number
one
[Music]
[Music]
there we go who recognizes that sound
please raise your hand and say aye
perfect for those of you who don’t know
what that was
if wasn’t Star Wars it was the sound of
a modem connecting to the Internet in
the early days when the internet really
started this was early 90s late 80s
something around there we used to have
internet speeds of 50 6.6 kilobytes per
second that’s roughly about 20,000 times
slower than your average cell phone
today
really those were the internet speeds
but for us those of us who saw that era
it was a time for big change and it was
an exciting time because every time you
connected to the Internet it was like
you were getting into an unknown
territory you didn’t know what to expect
and so that thrill factor still lives
with us I’m going to play the second
sound now and if you recognize it please
raise your hand and loudly say aye let’s
play the second clip please who
recognizes that sound raise your hand
and say aye
all right very few people here that was
the sound of an angry bird taking off
flying in the air hitting these evil
pigs that stole their eggs and crashing
in there to reclaim those eggs and it’s
from a popular game called Angry Birds
that’s being played by millions and
millions of people worldwide in fact
Angry Birds itself is played by over if
I remember right
200 million plus people every month they
have a subscriber base of 200 million
plus people every month the game is
played every day for 250 million minutes
per day that equals to about 16 years of
play time every single day and it’s just
one game there’s hundreds and thousands
of other games and apps that we all
indulge in on an everyday basis since
the beginning of
since that modern time that I just
showcased to the Angry Birds time the
Internet has had a growth of about a
thousand percent so in the last 20 years
we’ve seen unprecedented change in the
amount of people that use the internet
and use it for business for personal
life and so on and so forth the point
I’m trying to make is that we all are
part of this revolution it doesn’t
matter if you’re a Generation X a
Generation V a Boomer a zoom or a
millennial or or any other
classification of a generation you are
and we all are a part of this revolution
so we just proved that everybody here is
in the bucket together irrespective of
your nationality your creed your
religion the Internet and Technology
does not discriminate
so let’s level the ground first of all
we all are in it together now the
Internet and the revolution that it
drinks together opens up a many number
of possibilities one of the effects of
Technology is that it has made the world
into a smaller place we can communicate
faster we can travel virtually we can
travel faster in fact back in the day
when you used to when they had horses
and horse carriages a long long long
time ago before the railways it used to
take maybe about four months to go from
New York to San Francisco on a horse but
now it’s a matter of three hours and by
the way did you know that a typical
airline a flight today an aeroplane
generates about 500 gigabytes of data
when it’s flying so the Internet is
everywhere and I’ll talk a little bit
about the effects of the internet and
where we’re heading into so going back
to the fact that we all are part of this
together
the world is also becoming a place where
we all despite the fact that we’re all
that we’re all you know part of this
huge change
we’re also becoming very we’re also
shrinking into our own spaces because
we’re spending too much time on our cell
phones we don’t communicate with people
more we don’t
go out and mean meet people anymore so
that’s a challenge on one hand it’s
great but on the other hand it’s a
challenge I want to talk to you a little
bit about something that will probably
affect you for the rest of your life and
it is the fourth Industrial Revolution
just a very quick lesson on industrial
revolutions and this will not be long is
that we’ve had three large industrial
revolutions in the world the first
Industrial Revolution happened when the
steam engine was invented so that was a
big thing
all of a sudden manual processes were
out of the way the steam engine powered
industry automobiles locomotives and
what had you at that time and it was a
huge step for Humanity to be able to do
things faster the second Industrial
Revolution was when electricity was
invented and that really took things a
little bit farther away now technology
of the times suddenly you were able to
power factories street lamps and
transport that electricity out way out
using cables and so on the third
Industrial Revolution happened around
the 1940s 50s 60s and this is when
automation took over automation but then
factory floors and now you were able to
produce goods faster and faster and more
rapidly and then transport those goods
to further out wherever you wanted to
sell them at this moment in time we are
at the cusp of what is called as the
fourth Industrial Revolution and what is
different with this revolution is that
it has started and kicked off right now
and because of technology specifically
internet related technologies is going
to it’s going to propel us much more
further than we would then we would
anticipate the fourth Industrial
Revolution the main key part about the
fourth in this revolution is that it is
the time when men and machine come
together it is a time when artificial
intelligence will work to create
different outcomes as we have never seen
before and the Industrial Revolution the
fourth one is going to go forward no
matter what you do technology is going
to be a huge part of our lives so it’s
time that we start adopting ourselves
more to technology and start learning
how it can help us how we can use it to
create change in the world
now this is also the age of isolation
the age of fading away attention stands
a few years ago Microsoft did a study
along with Wired magazine came out with
this article and they said that today
attention spans are at the lowest so
they’ve been tanking tanking tanking
tanking and and going lower down in the
year 2000 they found out that an average
human span attention span is about is
about nine seconds the attention span of
a goldfish stands at eight seconds so we
were dangerously close to beating the
goldfish at that at that number and then
the inevitable happened we actually beat
the goldfish so our attention spans a
few years after tanked and they were at
eight seconds or seven seconds and V or
took the goldfish and that’s a challenge
because now experts predict that the
generation that’s coming after the
Millennials the post millennial
generation will have an average
attention span of 2.3 seconds and if you
really think about it it’s it is a bit
scary to think how will that next
generation adopt to what is happening
around them how will they be able to
create value how will they be able to
work the jobs that they work and create
change in the world so that is something
to really think about but fading
attention status spans is not on not a
big problem
because experts also suggest that if
people with low attention spams follow a
process and they follow a method and
they’re organized they are able to
actually accomplish any task so it has
two different sides I want to talk a
little bit about the technology that’s
happening around us and responsibilities
if you’ve seen any of the spider-man
movies I’m assuming we’ve all what’s in
movies anybody seen spider-man one quite
a few people all right the most favorite
part my favorite part lives in the
entire movie that paves the way to the
entire series is when Uncle Ben pulls
over the car and talks to pee
and says to him with great power comes
great responsibility and that echoes
through the entire movie with technology
we have we have access to an enormous
amount of computing power for example
your cell phones today are more powerful
than the most powerful supercomputer
from the 80s and the 90s and it’s a fact
we carry technology in our pockets as if
it didn’t matter but really the
computing power the access to
information is mind-boggling you’ve got
access to information libraries videos
research everything is available at our
fingertips and that really puts a lot of
responsibility on us because with great
power comes great responsibility
imagine that all this information was
available to humanity a hundred years
ago we would have made a lot more
progress and created more change let me
give you an example some of the ways
that technology and information is
generally helping the world is by in is
in different areas of of work if you
heard about healthcare and the strides
that are being made in healthcare
recently a company a few years ago they
analyzed they were able to analyze 50
million brain scans and they were able
to figure out how a certain disease was
progressing now had it not been for
technology analyzing these millions of
scans would have taken tens and hundreds
of years add to that the human error
that we would have encountered so
definitely technology is adding a lot of
value to many different industries and
changing how we live our lives if you’ve
heard about smart cities or connected
cars that’s the area of technology that
will change how we live it’ll change how
our homes communicate with our watches
communicate with our with the roads and
it’s not only because it’ll make
everything cooler but it’s also what are
the outcomes in efficiency that
technology can create to our cities and
so on and there’s many other concepts
such as a smart grid for electricity
transfer can be made more efficient so
there’s so much stuff out there that
unless we don’t learn about it we are
really at a loss and we’re shutting
ourselves from the entire world
so I really encourage all of us to go
out and learn what technology is doing
how is it changing the industries that
you work in how is it changing retail
how is it changing experiences where we
go and shop and how does that change the
world so we’ve got to be very
inquisitive too in this in this era of
the fourth Industrial Revolution now
because technology is putting a lot of
emphasis and responsibility on us to
learn more it’s it’s also very natural
to think that we should be doing
something about the greater problems in
the world these problems are poverty
deforestation global climate change
pollution healthcare problems across the
world now there’s millions of people
actually more than a billion people in
the world that do not have access to
basic health care this means they cannot
just walk into a clinic see a doctor and
get medications and feel better in many
countries women have to walk tens of
miles every day to get a pail of water
because they don’t have access to water
now we’re very fortunate to be living in
developed countries and living in
infrastructure in places where
infrastructure is really amazing we’ve
got running water and electricity and we
take we sometimes take things for
granted but I think because technology
is persuasive it gets into every nook
and corner of the world perhaps there is
a way for us to add value to the
information that we can collect analyze
use and add our voice to every day after
I finish work and I’m sure all of you do
this as well the last thing I want to do
is talk about work I just want to switch
on my television spend time with my
family
relax put my feet up and and just watch
some television but I think if I think
about this everyday that unless I don’t
use the information that I’m privy to
there’s no value that I have created in
the world on that specific day now
talking about responsibility again I
think we
to embody this responsibility and take
it on us
at least on an everyday basis that if I
if I have if I know something new maybe
I can spread that information to other
people maybe if I’ve acquired some new
knowledge I want to find out how that is
changing the life of other people or how
it may help other people so I think we
need to build that into our everyday
life and everyday habits because
technology is part of our lives on an
everyday basis so we’ve got to be able
to find and create that value every
single day I’m going to conclude by by
saying that we all share the
responsibility of changing the world
there’s nobody else coming in and
changing things for us because we all
are connected because we all are part of
the same fabric within the community
within the city within the country and
within the world
it falls on our shoulders to say hey I
actually want to go and find out about
something that I can change and for this
matter you don’t need to be a
technologist you don’t need to be a
futurist to find out what you can change
in fact the currency of the future and
something that will change every outcome
is the human potential it’s the brain
power it’s the ideas that fuel the world
and tech and use technology as an
enabler not as an endpoint but use
technology as an enabler to create that
change so don’t be overwhelmed with
technology having said that stop
spending all your time on the cell phone
or on the computers watching cat videos
I am guilty of this myself I think we
can utilize our time in a much better
fashion if we allocate blocks of time
you can definitely watch those videos
entertain yourself the technology this
is how it it enriches our life but we
also need to carve a little bit of time
every single day so that we’re thinking
about creating value and doing something
that’ll put all of us together in a
bucket of value creation
so stop being disrupted by technology
and start transforming the world around
you by thinking as a value creator
because once you start doing that the
world around you will change you’ll
start attracting people to you that are
value creators as well and starting from
your dining table where you have more
meaningful conversations with your
family whether you have a cell phone on
the dining table or not I think that can
go out in concentric circles and we can
start reshaping our society our culture
our neighbors our friends and the entire
world to make up to make a new world
that is value creation based thank you
so much for your time
[Applause]
experiment with me today in the next few
minutes I’m going to play two audio
clips and if you recognize any of those
sounds please raise your hand and say I
now a fair bit of warning before we get
started each of these sounds represents
the pleasure of millions of people
worldwide and they also represent
torture for many depending on where you
come from
so I’ll be ready let’s play clip number
one
[Music]
[Music]
there we go who recognizes that sound
please raise your hand and say aye
perfect for those of you who don’t know
what that was
if wasn’t Star Wars it was the sound of
a modem connecting to the Internet in
the early days when the internet really
started this was early 90s late 80s
something around there we used to have
internet speeds of 50 6.6 kilobytes per
second that’s roughly about 20,000 times
slower than your average cell phone
today
really those were the internet speeds
but for us those of us who saw that era
it was a time for big change and it was
an exciting time because every time you
connected to the Internet it was like
you were getting into an unknown
territory you didn’t know what to expect
and so that thrill factor still lives
with us I’m going to play the second
sound now and if you recognize it please
raise your hand and loudly say aye let’s
play the second clip please who
recognizes that sound raise your hand
and say aye
all right very few people here that was
the sound of an angry bird taking off
flying in the air hitting these evil
pigs that stole their eggs and crashing
in there to reclaim those eggs and it’s
from a popular game called Angry Birds
that’s being played by millions and
millions of people worldwide in fact
Angry Birds itself is played by over if
I remember right
200 million plus people every month they
have a subscriber base of 200 million
plus people every month the game is
played every day for 250 million minutes
per day that equals to about 16 years of
play time every single day and it’s just
one game there’s hundreds and thousands
of other games and apps that we all
indulge in on an everyday basis since
the beginning of
since that modern time that I just
showcased to the Angry Birds time the
Internet has had a growth of about a
thousand percent so in the last 20 years
we’ve seen unprecedented change in the
amount of people that use the internet
and use it for business for personal
life and so on and so forth the point
I’m trying to make is that we all are
part of this revolution it doesn’t
matter if you’re a Generation X a
Generation V a Boomer a zoom or a
millennial or or any other
classification of a generation you are
and we all are a part of this revolution
so we just proved that everybody here is
in the bucket together irrespective of
your nationality your creed your
religion the Internet and Technology
does not discriminate
so let’s level the ground first of all
we all are in it together now the
Internet and the revolution that it
drinks together opens up a many number
of possibilities one of the effects of
Technology is that it has made the world
into a smaller place we can communicate
faster we can travel virtually we can
travel faster in fact back in the day
when you used to when they had horses
and horse carriages a long long long
time ago before the railways it used to
take maybe about four months to go from
New York to San Francisco on a horse but
now it’s a matter of three hours and by
the way did you know that a typical
airline a flight today an aeroplane
generates about 500 gigabytes of data
when it’s flying so the Internet is
everywhere and I’ll talk a little bit
about the effects of the internet and
where we’re heading into so going back
to the fact that we all are part of this
together
the world is also becoming a place where
we all despite the fact that we’re all
that we’re all you know part of this
huge change
we’re also becoming very we’re also
shrinking into our own spaces because
we’re spending too much time on our cell
phones we don’t communicate with people
more we don’t
go out and mean meet people anymore so
that’s a challenge on one hand it’s
great but on the other hand it’s a
challenge I want to talk to you a little
bit about something that will probably
affect you for the rest of your life and
it is the fourth Industrial Revolution
just a very quick lesson on industrial
revolutions and this will not be long is
that we’ve had three large industrial
revolutions in the world the first
Industrial Revolution happened when the
steam engine was invented so that was a
big thing
all of a sudden manual processes were
out of the way the steam engine powered
industry automobiles locomotives and
what had you at that time and it was a
huge step for Humanity to be able to do
things faster the second Industrial
Revolution was when electricity was
invented and that really took things a
little bit farther away now technology
of the times suddenly you were able to
power factories street lamps and
transport that electricity out way out
using cables and so on the third
Industrial Revolution happened around
the 1940s 50s 60s and this is when
automation took over automation but then
factory floors and now you were able to
produce goods faster and faster and more
rapidly and then transport those goods
to further out wherever you wanted to
sell them at this moment in time we are
at the cusp of what is called as the
fourth Industrial Revolution and what is
different with this revolution is that
it has started and kicked off right now
and because of technology specifically
internet related technologies is going
to it’s going to propel us much more
further than we would then we would
anticipate the fourth Industrial
Revolution the main key part about the
fourth in this revolution is that it is
the time when men and machine come
together it is a time when artificial
intelligence will work to create
different outcomes as we have never seen
before and the Industrial Revolution the
fourth one is going to go forward no
matter what you do technology is going
to be a huge part of our lives so it’s
time that we start adopting ourselves
more to technology and start learning
how it can help us how we can use it to
create change in the world
now this is also the age of isolation
the age of fading away attention stands
a few years ago Microsoft did a study
along with Wired magazine came out with
this article and they said that today
attention spans are at the lowest so
they’ve been tanking tanking tanking
tanking and and going lower down in the
year 2000 they found out that an average
human span attention span is about is
about nine seconds the attention span of
a goldfish stands at eight seconds so we
were dangerously close to beating the
goldfish at that at that number and then
the inevitable happened we actually beat
the goldfish so our attention spans a
few years after tanked and they were at
eight seconds or seven seconds and V or
took the goldfish and that’s a challenge
because now experts predict that the
generation that’s coming after the
Millennials the post millennial
generation will have an average
attention span of 2.3 seconds and if you
really think about it it’s it is a bit
scary to think how will that next
generation adopt to what is happening
around them how will they be able to
create value how will they be able to
work the jobs that they work and create
change in the world so that is something
to really think about but fading
attention status spans is not on not a
big problem
because experts also suggest that if
people with low attention spams follow a
process and they follow a method and
they’re organized they are able to
actually accomplish any task so it has
two different sides I want to talk a
little bit about the technology that’s
happening around us and responsibilities
if you’ve seen any of the spider-man
movies I’m assuming we’ve all what’s in
movies anybody seen spider-man one quite
a few people all right the most favorite
part my favorite part lives in the
entire movie that paves the way to the
entire series is when Uncle Ben pulls
over the car and talks to pee
and says to him with great power comes
great responsibility and that echoes
through the entire movie with technology
we have we have access to an enormous
amount of computing power for example
your cell phones today are more powerful
than the most powerful supercomputer
from the 80s and the 90s and it’s a fact
we carry technology in our pockets as if
it didn’t matter but really the
computing power the access to
information is mind-boggling you’ve got
access to information libraries videos
research everything is available at our
fingertips and that really puts a lot of
responsibility on us because with great
power comes great responsibility
imagine that all this information was
available to humanity a hundred years
ago we would have made a lot more
progress and created more change let me
give you an example some of the ways
that technology and information is
generally helping the world is by in is
in different areas of of work if you
heard about healthcare and the strides
that are being made in healthcare
recently a company a few years ago they
analyzed they were able to analyze 50
million brain scans and they were able
to figure out how a certain disease was
progressing now had it not been for
technology analyzing these millions of
scans would have taken tens and hundreds
of years add to that the human error
that we would have encountered so
definitely technology is adding a lot of
value to many different industries and
changing how we live our lives if you’ve
heard about smart cities or connected
cars that’s the area of technology that
will change how we live it’ll change how
our homes communicate with our watches
communicate with our with the roads and
it’s not only because it’ll make
everything cooler but it’s also what are
the outcomes in efficiency that
technology can create to our cities and
so on and there’s many other concepts
such as a smart grid for electricity
transfer can be made more efficient so
there’s so much stuff out there that
unless we don’t learn about it we are
really at a loss and we’re shutting
ourselves from the entire world
so I really encourage all of us to go
out and learn what technology is doing
how is it changing the industries that
you work in how is it changing retail
how is it changing experiences where we
go and shop and how does that change the
world so we’ve got to be very
inquisitive too in this in this era of
the fourth Industrial Revolution now
because technology is putting a lot of
emphasis and responsibility on us to
learn more it’s it’s also very natural
to think that we should be doing
something about the greater problems in
the world these problems are poverty
deforestation global climate change
pollution healthcare problems across the
world now there’s millions of people
actually more than a billion people in
the world that do not have access to
basic health care this means they cannot
just walk into a clinic see a doctor and
get medications and feel better in many
countries women have to walk tens of
miles every day to get a pail of water
because they don’t have access to water
now we’re very fortunate to be living in
developed countries and living in
infrastructure in places where
infrastructure is really amazing we’ve
got running water and electricity and we
take we sometimes take things for
granted but I think because technology
is persuasive it gets into every nook
and corner of the world perhaps there is
a way for us to add value to the
information that we can collect analyze
use and add our voice to every day after
I finish work and I’m sure all of you do
this as well the last thing I want to do
is talk about work I just want to switch
on my television spend time with my
family
relax put my feet up and and just watch
some television but I think if I think
about this everyday that unless I don’t
use the information that I’m privy to
there’s no value that I have created in
the world on that specific day now
talking about responsibility again I
think we
to embody this responsibility and take
it on us
at least on an everyday basis that if I
if I have if I know something new maybe
I can spread that information to other
people maybe if I’ve acquired some new
knowledge I want to find out how that is
changing the life of other people or how
it may help other people so I think we
need to build that into our everyday
life and everyday habits because
technology is part of our lives on an
everyday basis so we’ve got to be able
to find and create that value every
single day I’m going to conclude by by
saying that we all share the
responsibility of changing the world
there’s nobody else coming in and
changing things for us because we all
are connected because we all are part of
the same fabric within the community
within the city within the country and
within the world
it falls on our shoulders to say hey I
actually want to go and find out about
something that I can change and for this
matter you don’t need to be a
technologist you don’t need to be a
futurist to find out what you can change
in fact the currency of the future and
something that will change every outcome
is the human potential it’s the brain
power it’s the ideas that fuel the world
and tech and use technology as an
enabler not as an endpoint but use
technology as an enabler to create that
change so don’t be overwhelmed with
technology having said that stop
spending all your time on the cell phone
or on the computers watching cat videos
I am guilty of this myself I think we
can utilize our time in a much better
fashion if we allocate blocks of time
you can definitely watch those videos
entertain yourself the technology this
is how it it enriches our life but we
also need to carve a little bit of time
every single day so that we’re thinking
about creating value and doing something
that’ll put all of us together in a
bucket of value creation
so stop being disrupted by technology
and start transforming the world around
you by thinking as a value creator
because once you start doing that the
world around you will change you’ll
start attracting people to you that are
value creators as well and starting from
your dining table where you have more
meaningful conversations with your
family whether you have a cell phone on
the dining table or not I think that can
go out in concentric circles and we can
start reshaping our society our culture
our neighbors our friends and the entire
world to make up to make a new world
that is value creation based thank you
so much for your time
[Applause]
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