World Health on 26 December 2018
Professor Yuval
Harari’s observation that today’s workers, managers and professional directors
will be of the last of the dumb generations[i]
has to be right. Science is moving so fast.
The dominant human/humanoid
of 2120 will look back and laugh at our chimp-level brain.
But only a few
billion new-humans will fully participate in the (very different[ii])
economy.
The 6 or 7 other
billion will be of the ‘useless’ class – 99% of Africa will be here[iii].
There could be more
participants from Europe and America but the ultra-left is taking over. For the
nicest, most humanitarian death-wish egalitarian perfect-world reasons possible
(i.e. B/S) a dumbing-down process is underway under its protective wings. But neither
Climate Change (CC) nor the Artificial Intelligence (AI) revolution is going to
slow, never mind stop for the fanatical fringe-left. Like it or not, it is all
about outcomes. Equip yourself to be part or fade.
The Americas are
falling too far behind.
This is what the
arrest of the CFO of Huawei is about … as British politician Galloway points
out[iv].
As the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGPzGxqc6Us
by WJS[v]
suggests Huawei (one of hundreds of leap-ahead Asian companies) is simply running
too fast[vi].
Now that it has
become a competition China intends to win the 5-G
race. The International Space Station, in operation since 1998 is due to be retired by 2024 and China was to
replace it[vii]
- will we still see cooperation? Will Trump’s US refuse to use it?
Where Europe and
America shelter the scattered (forever at war[viii])
competing whites and Africa houses the blacks who can’t even cooperate to trade
together, the yellow-brown Asians (excluding doomed Malaysia[ix])
recognised long ago that even though they do have the world’s smartest and available
work-force, only half are smart enough[x]
for the future.
Anticipating a
shortage of smart, fast, untiring workers companies like Alibaba use the robots
https://www.cnbc.com/video/2018/10/30/alibaba-robotic-warehouse-for-singles-day.html
in their warehouses while out on the street on-line hospitals (among other
services) are taking off[xi].
A self-driving electric train-bus debuted over a year ago[xii].
South African trains hardly run.
Professor Wray lectures
China’s infrastructure is so advanced the USA would have to spend trillions just
to catch up to today … but the Asians
would have moved on[xiii].
Professor Kaku of MIT says America is surviving on its last ‘Secret Weapon’ … ‘a
magnet’ that sucks up all the brains of the world to come to do their PhDs in
the US but ‘now the brains are going back …’[xiv]
Professor Wolff notes that for US firms
to survive they’ll have to look to sell
into the Chinese economy[xv].
Why should the
Chinese let them if the West will not compete under fair-trade conditions?
There is one
reason – Professor Harari speaks for all of us when he says the new world
shaped by CC and AI will only be available to humans if every country puts aside petty
party politics, religious dogmas and maximum profit drives and accepts it is
time for the best brains to guide us.
You don’t have
to go so far as to qualifying to join[xvi]
the Intellectual Dark Web but it is time for everyone to get involved.
[iii] There could be a few more (say 1%) from Africa participating but if
South Africa is the yardstick, the majority are too busy demanding rights and
others’ property without taking on personal responsibility for today’s
conditions or for intellectual advancement. A degree in whining-about-apartheid
will not mean anything to a robot or a drought.
[vi] Comment by JJL on You
Tube … “The current president and the previous two presidents in China all have
engineering background. President Xi studied chemical engineering. President Hu
studied civil engineering. And president Jiang studied electronic engineering.”
[ix] The post-BN minister of
education seems to be focusing on religion at a time when all half competent
BSc graduates by 2030 will be able to achieve more ‘miracles’ on the job than all
the billions of gods of the past have been credited with doing! Anyone … Indonesia?
[x] As congenial and conscientious as the coming ‘useless class’ will
be, time is too short to train them up.
[xi] An old example … “Haodf.com,
founded in 2006, officially established its online hospital in 2016 in
Yinchuan, capital of the Ningxia Hui autonomous region. It said that more than
16,500 doctors across the country had registered on the online hospital by
August, and had served about 7.5 million online patients.” … see http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/201811/01/WS5bda5ef7a310eff303285df4.html
[xii] https://www.dezeen.com/2017/11/06/worlds-first-driverless-trackless-train-launches-china-zhuzhou-transport-design/
[xiv] ‘… in the United States 50% of all PhD candidates are foreign-born.
At my system one of the biggest in the United States 100% of the PhD candidates
are foreign-born. https://www.youtube.com/watch?
