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Prepare for the future and make yourself irreplaceable. | Sahiqa Bennett | TEDxAmityUniversityDubai


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do you remember those movies where the
world is collapsing around us the towers
are falling down there’s dark gray
clouds in the sky people are running in
all directions scared really scared and
there’s robots creating havoc they’re
fighting they’re taking our jobs
I feel we’re living this movie
some people believe we’re living this
movie right now and that artificial
it’s not I’d like to take today some
time with you and share my perspective
through my lens and share some reality
technology is changing society in a big
way 11 years ago the iPhone was invented
what’s up came along in 2009 these two
big innovations fundamentally changed
the way we live a society the way we
work the way we play if we think if you
told my grandma the way back that you’re
going to be walking around with a device
an object like a walkie-talkie you’re
going to take pictures of things you’re
going to send the videos and you’re
going to share it all sorts of things
why are your device shifts think I was
crazy yet we’re living in that space
right now innovation is very real and
it’s here if we move across to Tallinn
what about innovation and talent the CEO
of Google said ten years ago the world
was about being mobile first the next 10
years are going to be about being AI
first artificial intelligence is not the
villain right so how do we adapt we
think about it machines actually were
developed a very long time ago nearly a
hundred years ago the lie detector it’s
invented by john Larson that was the
machine that was a machine judging if
somebody was telling us the truth or not
so why are we so scared about machines
and AI and like it’s going to take over
the world and there’s not going to be
any jobs for us yes technology is here
and is moving super fast I think that’s
the biggest thing that I will say here
today about how can we adapt and
we adapted really what’s going to make
us ready for the future and make us
irreplaceable it took the telephone 75
years to reach a hundred million users
Angry Birds
35 days right this is technology it is
fundamentally like I said changing
is really giving us options as a sehat
society we’re connected in so many more
ways than ever before which means that
jobs really these days are more about
lifestyle choices people are actually
looking for flexibility more and more
these days 38% of the u.s. is right now
is a freelance economy that is huge and
it’s growing every month so jobs are no
longer about something that we go to
every day jobs are about adapting fast
skilling staying relevant and some
people say to me I’m not really into all
of this hype like really did you think
what’s that was really going to be this
popular where we’re really going to be
using it more than maybe bbm for those
of you who remember bbm right but we we
did we have we’ve adapted maybe at
different paces
some people have adopted things very
fast others like my mum and dad not into
technology but they’re all oh what’s
that right now right so it just proves
even people who are not raised in a tech
so AI and talent going back to this the
innovation has always fascinated me in
businesses I spent the last four years
it’s working in the recruitment industry
and before that I’ve also built up
various startups I am used to or was
used to going through piles of TVs like
this and I just scratching my head
where’s my superstar in these thousands
of TVs I used to sit through weeks
months of interviews and I just wished
there was a way where we could get from
this to this so kind of looked at
various scenarios why why is why is this
not happening however apparently AI is
allowing us to cut more and weeks of
this into this in days right
fundamentally changing the way companies
will hire which is like I say I would
have wished for that type of solution so
this is where and I think the if we look
at technology developments and going
back to the technology side everybody
heard of Elektra right tech-savvy
audience here so Alexa is allowing
visually impaired people to be able to
play music for the first time for voice
activation good blockchain has good
purpose is allowing refugees to be able
to be recognized through powerful iris
technology to be able to get a job
refugees whose documents passports birth
certificates are all destroyed in war
but lot of chain is now allowing them to
have a digital identity the forgetful
husband who forgot his wife’s
anniversary can log on to an app order
some flour
and with one hour the flowers are there
the wife’s happy he’s not gonna get
divorced right so so so these these all
these innovations are making big
powerful advances for our communities in
very very good ways so I bring you back
to that point how do we adapt and if we
remember the way the movie was at the
beginning I want you to think of
something different I want you to create
a brighter sunnier happy movie I want
you to be walking through happy and
enjoying life letting the robots take
care of the boring stuff the four is
these are the things are really going to
make you different right and this is
something that the robots will never
have empathy excitement releasing
endorphins and also education educating
ourselves so empathy the robot is going
to come and sit now next year and see
that your sad no excitement is the
roller ball going to jump up and down
when your son is playing football and
you might lose the screw to is he going
to go to the gym or is he going to do an
MBA from Harvard so these four things
are what will make you as humans
irreplaceable technology is also created
so many jobs around us look at the
giants of the world Apple the googles
they are employing there’s been
thousands of jobs created around the
world because of these new systems
digital media digital marketing didn’t
exist a few years ago right and now
they’re employing a large proportion of
the world so it
adaptability open- stay ahead up skill
right so if you feel that something is
going a certain way be ahead and up
skilled and this applies to all of us
even if you’re an accountant I learn
about the latest developments and things
that are happening so let’s go back to
the movie and the picture I want you to
imagine a sunnier happy environment
where you’re floating about spending
time with the quality people in your
life and the ones that you love letting
the robots take care of all the boring
things so you have free time and I want
you to create that and I want you to
live in a world which is happily intelligently ever after thank you
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