Dubai leading itself to the future with AI-led revolution — Kaku
‘FUTURE BRIGHT FOR NATIONS THAT TAP INTELLIGENCE CAPITAL’
Atoilet that can detect cancer cells long before a tumour grows. Contact lenses that harness information from the internet in one blink. Art conceived in the mind of an artist and then directly 3Dprinted. This is the future and those who embrace it are winners in the next revolution, an American futurist said.
Professor Michio Kaku, a renowned theoretical physicist, futurist and popular science communicator, revealed what our future world would look like at this year’s Risk and Resilience Conference 2018 in Dubai yesterday.
A keynote speaker at the conference with the theme ‘Enlightening Today’s Unknowns for Tomorrow’, Professor Kaku said the future is bright for countries and governments that capitalise on intelligence capital, adding that Dubai is doing exactly that.
Right balance
“The engine of prosperity is science and technology. Those countries which embrace those principles will be rich. Those countries that only believe in old-fashioned commodities like agriculture and food unfortunately — those prices keep dropping every year — they will be poor in the future,” Professor Kaku told Gulf News at the conference organised by the Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (Dewa) in partnership with Ernst and Young.
“The leadership of Dubai grasped this fact that you have to balance intellectual capital — the product of the mind — with commodity capital — product of the hand — to create this vibrant society because the engine for prosperity is ultimately science and technology.”
For Professor Kaku, Dubai is a beacon for the region with its drive towards a knowledgebased economy and its strategy to use artificial intelligence (AI) in various future services, sectors and infrastructure projects.
“The winners of the future are people who believe in strategy, planning, vision, innovation — these are the winners of the future. Congratulations, you [people of Dubai] are among the winners. I see Dubai as leading [itself] to the future. Dubai is at the forefront, at the leadership of this process.”
For Professor Kaku, Dubai is a beacon for the region with its drive towards a knowledgebased economy and its strategy to use artificial intelligence in future services.
Dewa’s vision
This year’s conference is particularly important due to the essential role of risk management, resilience, and business continuity in realising Dewa’s updated vision to become a sustainable innovative leading utility, Saeed Mohammad Al Tayer, managing director and CEO of Dewa, said.