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EduTech Nation | Pedro Pablo Andreu Oros | TEDxZaragoza


[Applause]
good morning everyone today is the best
moment of history to be a homo
sapiens and live on planet earth that
is my initial affirmation always people
that idealizes past times but
we have many objective indicators
they say that’s not like that today
we are better than ever what he does not want
say that we have reason to be
satisfied
I think we are all aware of
the problems that beset us some of
the problems we have today some
they are problems that are going to happen in
the next years
and many of those problems happen
because there are things systemic things
structural problems that are wrong and that
we must fix so I got to
think that I think that is the most
important that we should fix and
I had two ideas the first is to start from
zero fix everything and we go to mars
with spacex and we already do everything right
I had two fringes first the talk was
it was short because and the second
fundamental is that the removals are very
complicated then I said why not
we do something we can do here to
be on earth and organize ourselves as
we should as we should be
fortunately what we have to do
is to focus on solving the
problems and use all the tools
that we have in our hand that are
many to make it so and we also have
the luck of living right now we are
living a technological explosion
we have many more tools for
to solve the problems
and what those tools as
it’s basically a lot reducing
basically there are three of us going to have more
domain of the atom more domain than
small let’s have more mastery of the
bits the zeros and ones are the ones
process the computers and we will have
a greater mastery of him
is the domain of these three areas is going
to allow the emergence of new areas
that until now were unthinkable because
we see some advances that were
unimaginable a few years ago
fundamentally we are going to generate new
knowledge areas such as
digitalization of biology the
nanotechnology recorded in
nanotechnology and of course the great
star that is intelligence
artificial
and all this will happen because power
Enablers develop
needed and that confluence is
essential for this to happen on
21st century is the century of data and in
the raw material are the data and we are
advancing in software to manage
data with more in learning algorithms
deep learning and we are making progress in the
hardware with quantum computing the
bits to happen to be bits and we’re
advancing so much that we’re going to get
results that were unthinkable makes
a few years and we also have other
more humble enablers like the 5g
that we will see it all within very little
that will allow us to connect a number of
growing appliances
that is, we do not go into a
new world a more mathematical world a
world where we have more precision for
make the decisions because they are good
news for homo sapiens we are
we better have more weapons but what happens
what is necessary for a technology
disruptive see at least successful
two variables the first the people that the
carries out we need people who
want to build the future people with
a dream people with illusion people
eager to create but people with the
sufficient technical skills to
do it and people with intelligence
necessary to do it because
unfortunately, only with the illusion
okay
and the universe conspires every day to
fulfill your dreams and really what
you want and you look with the eyes of the heart
it does not work like that
and apart from this we live a
society which seems to be with
to want already can be not only also apart
we need someone who also
pay for the party of innovation some
innovation can be silver but in
general all innovations those that
we enjoy are extremely expensive with
these two concepts who is innovating
and fundamentally those people
able to create a dream and with
technical skills and with intelligence
mostly with the ultimate goal
to get rich having a great time
by the way
get rich companies that invest in
money be financial companies or not
with the fundamental objective of having a
return on your investment increase
your benefit and your company value and
of course the armies for not
stay behind in the race
armament
but we as a society that we have
decided to structure those in states are
the states those that vertebrate
those who give us the common rules of
coexistence and the states that are
doing at this juncture because
unfortunately the states are not
doing a lot not to say that they are not
doing practically nothing the states
they are not an active element they are a
passive element and the states go
always running to try to regulate
a posteriori what is already obsolete with
a structure and an order
legal that are outdated and not
They are useful for solving problems
to which we face today
that the states can, because I believe the
world of private enterprise always
so I think that when you have a
problem that is doing two things what
first are the corrective actions
immediate and the second is to attack the
root cause to try solution to
problem from the point of view
immediately I consider that the states
they should bet indisputably
research in basic science and by
the technology
because research in science
basic is that what happens 13 thousand
800 million years in the big band
It is good to know but it does not have
much influence once I read I would have
liked it would have happened but almost
all good ideas I read them from others
and that the universe a description
fantastic universe the universe is like
a ship like a giant ship images
the indiana jones a huge ship with
a central corridor and corridors
perpendiculars full of shelves
an infinite ship and we know there’s
aisles and more shelves but no
we can see what is there because it is
dark and each hall has a small
switch when we press that
switch turns on the light and we
lets see what’s on the shelves
because that switch is the investigation
in basic science until I do not
we press we do not know and the shelves
we will serve or not but if you do not
we press plan b is darkness and it’s
ignorance and we can not afford
be ignorant
and technology technology yes that
see as more more obvious but that is going to
do the state to encourage the
technology towards social uses should
create circumstances for that to happen
the state can do many things
First, it can favor those
companies whose purpose is eminently
social and when I say end I mean the
product or service not to your mission or to
his vision or anything ethereal but
those whose objective is to deliver a
product or a service that is aligned
with the problems we want to solve
as a state
leading is to another extreme we could go
to social entrepreneurship the state
I should do the same but the
social entrepreneurship favor those
companies whose purpose is to improve
society and if these two were not
enough I’m even a supporter of
that the state proactively invest in
generate companies with mixed capital
companies to solve the problems
that we have as a company companies
transversal not industries always
cross-sectional to solve this type
of problems
that the state invests in companies is
complicated especially to manufacture for
solve these problems and has has
numerous glue
to those who say that resources are
I would tell you that if it is true
resources are finite pérez that the state
must stop doing everything that is not
it is imperative that given to all of us
like the state to give us things but
for the state to give something to someone
he has taken it away from another first that’s
a reality like a temple then the
state should stop doing everything
what does not generate value as
society everything that is bureaucratic
that is not optimizing your processes
to bring that investment and dedicate
what we do need as a
society
and that’s fundamental that change is
fundamental
another problem that we would see would be the subject
of unfair competition ‘ we are going to
mix let’s compete companies
with private companies is
true that it is a problem and we should
create new standards
we should be extremely
transparent we should keep in mind
that the ultimate goal is to get a
product not making money with that
product and we would have to create new
corporate forms would have to create some
means to protect property
intellectual patents that had a
fraction of the current time or without
patents but you could play with that
element
another problem that we could have is that
other areas would do the same if there is not
more resources and solve the problem
before us it was a
competition between states that
tear the market but as our
goal is not to win but to be
about the problem
we would be basically fine
and this regarding the short term respect
to the root cause the fundamental problem
I think we’ve been seeing the
fundamental problem resides almost always
in education and in values ​​and
we have to transform education in
the background and in the form in the background
fundamentally we need to
for real
promote values ​​other than those
what we have today we need
recognize the brilliance we need
recognize generosity we need
recognize the effort and we need
recognize diversity because that is what
it makes us evolve and what makes us
better and today I do not think
we cheated none of most of
what our children are studying
at school it ‘s useless it’s not going to
serve for nothing what the children have
what to do is to be good at a
competition that is solving problems
children have to be able to
collect a lot of information
select and skew the one that
relevant to draw conclusions and know
communicate the
when I say solve problems I want
emphasize I’m not talking just about stem
the 21st century is going to be the century
very clearly from science a century ago
that we are going to have some challenges
scientific and technological brutal but
we’re going to have the same level of challenges what
we will have from the point of view
socially and from the moral point of view
is going to be the century of the challenges of
Humanities also in the 21st Century
we need both Nikola Tesla and
we need to aristóteles vacant
regarding the form regarding the
way it is clear that what I have to
to do is to maximize the output in
any process you have an input and
you want to maximize your author and that’s
that each child gives his or her best that is
the ideal world each child gives the best
you can how do you get that obviously
customizing so that
each child can take their rhythm and how
customize then we need again
technology but technology is not
have the books on the ipad in pdf only
it’s a lot of technology is to allow
let each child continue on his way and go
at your speed and interact with children from
their same capabilities and their own
pleasures
it is not him
the problem we have is that not only
it’s not about resources, it’s not that we do not have
the technology is that we do not have the
common sense to do it because no
It makes no sense to organize the
children by ages for example we should
organize ourselves by their abilities and by
its maturation but what happens that what
we are doing and that is what we do not
we can allow we are not living in
a bubble of mediocrity a bubble
of mediocrity to live within what
politically correct and that as
society we can not afford it
because we have more challenges ahead
important in recent years
In summary
in short we have to look at a
differently we have to look at the
problems in a different way we have
to direct technology towards good
common and we have to encourage some
values ​​determined because if not what
we make
the result is inevitable we will have
the brightest minds devoting to
dedicating itself to making high frequency
trading or to develop algorithms for
that we click ads or develop
so virtual reality because those
are the incentives that you have
I am a firm convinced of the
firm market economy convinced the
economy
but I made a personal decision that
I deny personally I refuse to think and
accept that the most that the
state is not to bother too much
I refuse to think that we can not fall
paternalism we can not pretend that
dad been in our problems because
that does not work we have seen in many
sites and that does not work the problems
we have to solve them ourselves
we ‘re going to play ourselves but
the state is the one who sets the rules and if
we can demand that you create the incentives
and the structures needed to
get us to play at
fashion party in which we can
always play without exempting us from our
individual responsibility depends on
we do not depend on the state the state
In his mind
It depends a lot on us
every day every day that we get up
we are lucky to live
the period probably more fun
of history and more interesting
and what we do in the next 40 years
what we do what we
let’s make ourselves dependent on the future
of the planet and our species a
species that has given people like
Aristóteles as a da vinci as a
newton as a shakespeare and county and
the witness we have it what
we have us today but the feeling
that I have is that these states
we have a lot of external noise all
what we receive every night in
twitter all the news we receive
fundamentally are anecdotes are
trifles that do not have any
importance and that are just a reflection
of short-termism in which we live from
the myopia in which we live in a
preschool society
they give us everything easy because we are what
that we want to buy and we have to
raise the bar we have to change the
debate we have to focus on what
it’s really important and leave us
nonsense and what is really
important is how we guide all
these technological improvements that
they are coming towards good and how
we manage to change social values
what we have
because the incentives must be
aligned with the necessary behaviors
at the end do not cheat, there are people
that makes things happen there are people
who is engaged in asking
What has happened
and we do not touch us today
do things we have to do them now
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