what if hospitals were run by robots
what if organ donations no longer became
necessary hello everyone my name is Xue
J and today I want to introduce you all
to a newly rising concept that would
change the world forever the fourth
Industrial Revolution so to start off I
want to introduce you to this quote by
Klaus Schwab the founder and executive
chairman of World Economic Forum well he
states the more we think about how to
harness technology revolutions the more
we will have an opportunity to shape the
revolution in a manner that improves the
state of the world and this in essence
is why I’m standing here today so what
is the fourth Industrial Revolution well
as of now experts claim that our global
society has seen three major revolutions
thus far the first one arrived in the
18th century in England when the steam
engine was first invented and the second
one came along in the 19th century when
electricity became widespread and the
third one the one we were most familiar
with came along with the invention of
computers and phones that introduced our
society to globalization and
interconnectedness that we had never
seen before so what the fourth
Industrial Revolution offers us is the
application of artificial intelligence
cyber-physical systems and the Internet
of Things meaning that will most
definitely be able to attach Internet
connection to whatever anything we use
and that isn’t that surprising
considering that we already have smart
watches and smart glasses today and
statistics show that by 2022 more than
700 million people will be wearing
internet-connected apparel but just from
these explanations that I’ve just gave
you the fourth Industrial Revolution may
as well just seem as an extension of the
third one but a major striking
difference that differentially
it’s the fourth Industrial Revolution
and any other thus far comes down to
this single concept fusion fusion so the
fourth Industrial Revolution
isn’t a revolution in a single field
such as the sciences or the arts or
literature it’s a revolution that
involves the fusion of various areas of
knowledge such as arts and languages and
by this we mean that improvements in
artificial intelligence won’t just
affect scientists working in
laboratories but also average households
and enhancements an application of
cyber-physical systems won’t require
just the help of engineers but also
economists and psychologists as well but
even within this fusion what I want to
specifically want to focus on today are
innovations in the field of biomedical
sciences so the biomedical science is a
study in which our knowledge of biology
fuses with physical engineering in order
to create new technologies that serve
medical purposes so in order to further
elaborate on this I want to introduce
you all to two extremely innovative
examples and innovations from the field
of biomedical sciences that have stemmed
from the infancy stages of the fourth
Industrial Revolution for the past
decade so going back to my first
question what if hospitals were actually
run by robots well judging by the newly
rising IBM Watson this seems as a pretty
realistic and accurate prediction about
the future so what the IBM Watson is is
a supercomputer developed by the
technology company IBM that uses Big
Data and artificial intelligence to
complete tasks that range from simple QA
to predictions about the future through
critical analysis and apparently people
wonder how the supercomputer can be used
in the field
biomedical sciences well what it can do
is that it can intake all the
information and data that we have about
all the different types of diseases and
cancers that have been present that I’ve
been present in the world thus far and
process that data in order to utilize
them whilst diagnosing patients and
detecting which kind of cancer and
disease the patient has depending on the
symptoms that they’ve shown so in
essence these supercomputers can act as
alternative doctors and statistics show
that the degree of similarity between
the diagnostics of real-life doctors and
IBM Watson was a shocking 99 percent and
although the IBM Watson is in its
developmental stage it is still
considered as one of the most important
innovations in the field of biomedical
sciences that will change the field of
medical care in the future
now synthetic organs is another huge
innovation that is going on in this
current field for the past decade or
actually a couple of decades actually
the the gap between the demand and
supply of organ transplants have been
immense as shown with this graph so as
you can see the values of the black dots
which indicate the number of patients in
need of organ transplants have been
consistently much higher than the values
of the blue bars which indicate the
number of organs that were actually
donated and because of this lack of
supply of organs countless patients have
been left untreated and were unable to
receive full treatment now in order to
recover this crisis as of now biologists
doctors and engineers have come together
to work on a project on what they call
synthetic organs which in other words is
a fully functioning man-made organ so
how does this work how can we create an
actual organ from the materials that we
have so it all starts off by engineers
creating the skeletal structure of the
organ they want to create using a
harmless
Tyrael such as silicon that can be
safely inserted into our human body then
the use of stem cells come in so as many
of you may or may not know stem cells
are types of cells found in our body
that can continuously divide and
indefinitely grow into creating more
cells of its own kind or completely
transform into a completely new set of
cells now using these concepts these
biologists and doctors want to create a
completely new set of tissues and
muscles of the organ they want to
replicate and hence insert them into the
skeletal structure in which the
engineers create as the cells within the
structure will divide and grow a fully
functioning artificial organ will be
created well it’s not as easy as it
sounds but these synthetic organs can be
used to for organ transplant and instead
instead of actual organs that have been
donated by donors themselves and this
will allow more patients to receive the
full treatment that they need so here is
an actual an example of a synthetic
organ that is in the process of
development today it’s a synthetic organ
of the human heart and the red glow of
the organ itself comes from the stem
cells would have been inserted to the
transparent structure in which the
engineers have created so what do these
innovations in the field of biomedical
sciences such as the IBM Watson and
since that organs actually mean for the
future well going back to IBM Watson it
was understood that it can be used to
accurately diagnose patients and detect
which type of illnesses that they have
but not only this the role of IBM Watson
may also shift the responsibilities in
which current doctors have and allow for
new jobs to emerge for example I’m not
saying the introduction of IBM Watson
will cause doctors to completely go
extinct but the roles that they have may
change in the future once IBM Watson
becomes implemented doctors then may be
more concern
about the trust and faith of patience
towards the credibility of IBM Watson
rather than the quality of the
Diagnostics that the doctors can
personally give and the introduction of
IBM Watson will most definitely cause
more jobs regarding the maintenance and
improvements of IBM Watson to emerge now
as with synthetic organs not only will
they allow more patients to receive the
full treatment that they need it can
also lead to the emergence of new
businesses and companies that regard
with the insurance that is required
during organ transplants and this links
back to the concept of fusion which I
started off with that comes along with
the fourth Industrial Revolution because
we can clearly see that these
innovations are not only based off of
cooperation between various areas of
studies such as engineering medicine and
biology it can also have huge influence
on other parts of studies as well such
as economics and psychology so during
these types of changes it is imperative
for us to understand these concepts and
technological innovations that can
change the way we perceive our life and
understand the technological innovations
by doing so we will better understand
the concept of the fourth Industrial
Revolution and better prepare ourselves
to use them and utilize them in a
beneficial way that will revolutionize
our society and create a hopeful future
thank you
[Applause]
what if organ donations no longer became
necessary hello everyone my name is Xue
J and today I want to introduce you all
to a newly rising concept that would
change the world forever the fourth
Industrial Revolution so to start off I
want to introduce you to this quote by
Klaus Schwab the founder and executive
chairman of World Economic Forum well he
states the more we think about how to
harness technology revolutions the more
we will have an opportunity to shape the
revolution in a manner that improves the
state of the world and this in essence
is why I’m standing here today so what
is the fourth Industrial Revolution well
as of now experts claim that our global
society has seen three major revolutions
thus far the first one arrived in the
18th century in England when the steam
engine was first invented and the second
one came along in the 19th century when
electricity became widespread and the
third one the one we were most familiar
with came along with the invention of
computers and phones that introduced our
society to globalization and
interconnectedness that we had never
seen before so what the fourth
Industrial Revolution offers us is the
application of artificial intelligence
cyber-physical systems and the Internet
of Things meaning that will most
definitely be able to attach Internet
connection to whatever anything we use
and that isn’t that surprising
considering that we already have smart
watches and smart glasses today and
statistics show that by 2022 more than
700 million people will be wearing
internet-connected apparel but just from
these explanations that I’ve just gave
you the fourth Industrial Revolution may
as well just seem as an extension of the
third one but a major striking
difference that differentially
it’s the fourth Industrial Revolution
and any other thus far comes down to
this single concept fusion fusion so the
fourth Industrial Revolution
isn’t a revolution in a single field
such as the sciences or the arts or
literature it’s a revolution that
involves the fusion of various areas of
knowledge such as arts and languages and
by this we mean that improvements in
artificial intelligence won’t just
affect scientists working in
laboratories but also average households
and enhancements an application of
cyber-physical systems won’t require
just the help of engineers but also
economists and psychologists as well but
even within this fusion what I want to
specifically want to focus on today are
innovations in the field of biomedical
sciences so the biomedical science is a
study in which our knowledge of biology
fuses with physical engineering in order
to create new technologies that serve
medical purposes so in order to further
elaborate on this I want to introduce
you all to two extremely innovative
examples and innovations from the field
of biomedical sciences that have stemmed
from the infancy stages of the fourth
Industrial Revolution for the past
decade so going back to my first
question what if hospitals were actually
run by robots well judging by the newly
rising IBM Watson this seems as a pretty
realistic and accurate prediction about
the future so what the IBM Watson is is
a supercomputer developed by the
technology company IBM that uses Big
Data and artificial intelligence to
complete tasks that range from simple QA
to predictions about the future through
critical analysis and apparently people
wonder how the supercomputer can be used
in the field
biomedical sciences well what it can do
is that it can intake all the
information and data that we have about
all the different types of diseases and
cancers that have been present that I’ve
been present in the world thus far and
process that data in order to utilize
them whilst diagnosing patients and
detecting which kind of cancer and
disease the patient has depending on the
symptoms that they’ve shown so in
essence these supercomputers can act as
alternative doctors and statistics show
that the degree of similarity between
the diagnostics of real-life doctors and
IBM Watson was a shocking 99 percent and
although the IBM Watson is in its
developmental stage it is still
considered as one of the most important
innovations in the field of biomedical
sciences that will change the field of
medical care in the future
now synthetic organs is another huge
innovation that is going on in this
current field for the past decade or
actually a couple of decades actually
the the gap between the demand and
supply of organ transplants have been
immense as shown with this graph so as
you can see the values of the black dots
which indicate the number of patients in
need of organ transplants have been
consistently much higher than the values
of the blue bars which indicate the
number of organs that were actually
donated and because of this lack of
supply of organs countless patients have
been left untreated and were unable to
receive full treatment now in order to
recover this crisis as of now biologists
doctors and engineers have come together
to work on a project on what they call
synthetic organs which in other words is
a fully functioning man-made organ so
how does this work how can we create an
actual organ from the materials that we
have so it all starts off by engineers
creating the skeletal structure of the
organ they want to create using a
harmless
Tyrael such as silicon that can be
safely inserted into our human body then
the use of stem cells come in so as many
of you may or may not know stem cells
are types of cells found in our body
that can continuously divide and
indefinitely grow into creating more
cells of its own kind or completely
transform into a completely new set of
cells now using these concepts these
biologists and doctors want to create a
completely new set of tissues and
muscles of the organ they want to
replicate and hence insert them into the
skeletal structure in which the
engineers create as the cells within the
structure will divide and grow a fully
functioning artificial organ will be
created well it’s not as easy as it
sounds but these synthetic organs can be
used to for organ transplant and instead
instead of actual organs that have been
donated by donors themselves and this
will allow more patients to receive the
full treatment that they need so here is
an actual an example of a synthetic
organ that is in the process of
development today it’s a synthetic organ
of the human heart and the red glow of
the organ itself comes from the stem
cells would have been inserted to the
transparent structure in which the
engineers have created so what do these
innovations in the field of biomedical
sciences such as the IBM Watson and
since that organs actually mean for the
future well going back to IBM Watson it
was understood that it can be used to
accurately diagnose patients and detect
which type of illnesses that they have
but not only this the role of IBM Watson
may also shift the responsibilities in
which current doctors have and allow for
new jobs to emerge for example I’m not
saying the introduction of IBM Watson
will cause doctors to completely go
extinct but the roles that they have may
change in the future once IBM Watson
becomes implemented doctors then may be
more concern
about the trust and faith of patience
towards the credibility of IBM Watson
rather than the quality of the
Diagnostics that the doctors can
personally give and the introduction of
IBM Watson will most definitely cause
more jobs regarding the maintenance and
improvements of IBM Watson to emerge now
as with synthetic organs not only will
they allow more patients to receive the
full treatment that they need it can
also lead to the emergence of new
businesses and companies that regard
with the insurance that is required
during organ transplants and this links
back to the concept of fusion which I
started off with that comes along with
the fourth Industrial Revolution because
we can clearly see that these
innovations are not only based off of
cooperation between various areas of
studies such as engineering medicine and
biology it can also have huge influence
on other parts of studies as well such
as economics and psychology so during
these types of changes it is imperative
for us to understand these concepts and
technological innovations that can
change the way we perceive our life and
understand the technological innovations
by doing so we will better understand
the concept of the fourth Industrial
Revolution and better prepare ourselves
to use them and utilize them in a
beneficial way that will revolutionize
our society and create a hopeful future
thank you
[Applause]
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