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1 - Perspective on Future Ready Educational Skills and inadequacies
>>> Are we equipped with future ready skills that will allow us to live in a world where CDC vouchers have to be physically printed out if you are not digitally savvy?
2 - Leveraging technology will help to increase disruption in many industries
>>> The AI is gonna steal your rice bowl. Hello to Robot Coffee Baristas and ChatGPT taking away the educational sectors' ricebowl?
3 - Learning to live in a VUCA world.
>>> Are we emotionally ready to deal with a world of change? Can we live more than 12 hours in the virtual metaverse and work in a seamless no boundaries environment with our brains and senses plugged into the "Matrix"?

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I am intrigued by the areas of decelerating trends which technologies directly affect in our increasingly BANI world:

End of Earth - Out of this world

As technologies advance, the boundaries of our physical space on earth are increasingly removed or pushed by our growing reach into outer space, digital space, metaphysical space and even dimensional space (maybe?). Never before have humans been able to "exist" on so many planes and platforms as extensive forms of ourselves.

"Delinearity" - End of extrapolation
The future is becoming less and less predictable. We are in the early stages in the history of humans where the possibilities of technologies will blur the barriers between science fiction and science fact, i.e. we can theoretically live beyond our natural lifecycle (death may no longer be the end). As current technological experiments begin to take shape or becomes clear, the more exponentially unknown our futures become.

Industries Transformation - End of tangibilty
Our age old obsession with physical resources like assets, buildings, objects would decrease in favour of more intangible resources like intellectual capital, data, energy, networks. Value may increasingly be transferred from the physical to the virtual, i.e. digital currency, metaphysical worlds and identities.

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My mind is opened with possibilities. There are so many things we are 'used to' where it used to be. Observing the past 20 years, we seen things people wouldn't have been convinced will happen 40 years ago. Signals and waves observed today might be the bigger waves of the next 10-20 years. The prototype of today might be the next thing in years to come.

De-linearity is the one thing stuck on my mind now. We are living so structured based on constant things like age, gender, race, marriage and borders, etc. What if there was a day when we return to nomadic life where there are no more borders to restrict us from one country to another. We could be working and studying in a virtual space without the need to report to a physical place or institution. We might be able to collaborate better with trust because of no borders, race, and religions.

As we can expect a longer lifespan through genetic modification, what can we do with the extended lifespan, plus we might not be born to study, work and then retire. What will be the meaning of life then? I wonder if it will bring back an age of arts, philosophy and religion where people discuss the meaning of life and what our existence is meant to be. Or could it be a passionate pursuit of knowledge as we could learn and do more with virtual assistants.

Mobile-first will be a generation of the past. We might have augmented parts, wearable or integrated part of our bodies, enable us to interact quicker and better with machines. Our senses may be augmented to enable us to have AR vision and touch and smell things we see on the digital world. Our virtual assistant could be a brain computer interface, although that sounds creepy as we all heard stories about voices in the head. However creepy that sounds the virtual assistant could aid us in many ways possible. We might be able to talk to machines with a thought or gesture, commanding it to move and perform task telepathically... just like professor X.

Conclusion:
Much as I was excited over all the future scenarios imagined, I have fears too that are based on our history on earth. My fear comes with dark patterns of our history of exploitations. Space exploration may be the next thing as we have the capabilities to move across planets. Will humans harvest the best of other planets or use them as grounds for disposing toxic wastes just as we did to our planet?

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1. The need to embrace liminality - we can't wait till its here. The future might be in a zone beyond Cynefin Framework 'Ambiguous complexity' ... And then I look at the stuff which my kids are studying in school which hasn't change much in core. Are we helping them to prep for the future?

2. The concept of 'Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World' in Range. Makes me curious to read more about it.

3. The new Triple A standard - Anticipatory, Anti Fragile and Adaptive agility. Wow, not just agility but adaptive agility. Definitely needed AI as an assistant to do that.

4. Machines having an increasing role in the value chain. Does it make the arrival of replacements or arrival of better tools? Work will definitely be disrupted and replaced. Then the question is, 'What is there for us to do? Consume Tik Tok?'

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1. The fact that humans possess cognitive bias and tend to think linearly. Hence, humans are not good at processing exponentially. As such, I find that it is always important to prepare for what might happen since humans are not able to extrapolate or predict and things can happen in a gradual and sudden manner (you will never know).

2. The introduction of the “Amara’s law” which touches on the point that humans tend to overestimate the impact of technology in the short run but underestimate the effect of it in the long run. On “overestimate”, it is explained that when there is a new technology introduced (i.e. Zoom, Microsoft Teams, etc.), people tend to be excited as it appears effortlessly in solving an issue and did not perceive anything negative. On “underestimate”, it is when humans underestimate the adverse impact of technology. For instance, declining mental health of humans due to virtual meetings and remote jobs. With increased virtual meetings or when one starts a new job remotely, there will be less physical contact and less opportunities to build relationships. This eventually lead to increased stress.

3. The other takeaway is that data offers insights and is important to the future. When humans merged with data, it creates biodata and this is useful for profiling, research work, future strategy planning etc. As such, I find that it is important to understand data language, costs and nuances and also think about privacy issues, ethics and the possible risks due to hacking.

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Anticipatory, Antifragile and Adaptative Agility (AAA)

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Mixed feelings thinking about how to thrive and age gracefully with all this external force, which I think is worthwhile to know to be aware of what is coming.

The end of Linear  -  aging to 100, not sure my cpf can cover my retirement till then. Will read the recommended book Range: How Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
- updated 16.01.2023 summary of what David Epstein view is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6lBtiQZSho

Radical Transformation of Professional - future of work is changing, and one needs to sharpen his tools and understand the importance of intangibles

Preferred Aspiration -  Taleb coined the term antifragility to define things that get better when exposed to stress or volatility. “Antifragility is beyond resilience or robustness. The resilient resists shocks and stays the same; the antifragile gets better.”
- updated 16.01.2023 Taleb book uses too much jargon, so i skimmed through and found this summary easier to digest
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-or_D-qNqM

aspire now to work on being a triple-AAA (battery)

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By Nuno Boggiss

10:16 - Fusion & Convergence

Imagine a world with the conversion between AI, 5G, IoT, sensors, Virtual and Mixed Reality. This fusion of technologies will allow people to live in this called “Artificial Reality”. How far is time travel in this context? The moment virtual experience becomes so perfect to the neural level, how could one be able to differentiate when they are in a simulation or not, depending on how the chemical industries could do. I love the concept of DEIP (Delocalised Experiential Immersive and Personalised.) to explain how this converged and fused experience is shaping towards.

24:42 - Liminality

This blurry boundary between spaces can be linked with the recent increase of level of anxiety within the young generation. For some it could feel like they don’t belong. It’s the inertia moment in life you don’t know what is real and what is not. And impacts mostly everything you do. Confusing times. It’s all so confusing nowadays. Parents know that shaking hands is not ok, but bumping elbows is.

37:49 - The need for a Reset

Letting go of some of the legacy systems are crucial to ensure a sustainable reset in the industries, communities and the world. Levering in Liminality is certainly important. We live in confusing times in this blurry boundary between species, which links to increase of anxiety. This reset is more than needed, it can be seen as the only way to truly disrupt. We destruct and rebuild by resetting the things that needs one.

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Amara’s Law. We tend to overestimate the impact of a technology in the short run, but underestimate in the long run. We use to have frustrating interactions with useless chatbots and suddenly boom, ChatGPT throws the whole education system into disarray. I am glad to be a student at this time to witness the change that is about to happen. Reminds me of when math teacher used to preach that we won’t have calculators with us all the time. What will education become when thinking can be augmented?

This brings me to the next point Roger talked about, falling off the edge of the playround. Children who are leaving primary school will leave to jobs that don’t exist yet. Reframing education around inadequacies. Measuring failure as an achievement to encourage imagination and challenge convention. I am super curious what great thinkers will emerge from these new schools of thought. This also makes me fear of becoming irrelevant. Will I be able to keep up with this exponential shift.

Science fiction accelerating to science fact. Life imitates art. That’s why I think we still need dreamers. I can’t wait to have my own C-3PO as a sidekick. Humans need to become Triple A: anticipatory, anti-fragile, adaptive agility, so that we can have hyper-augmentation relationship with machines and not be substituted. Don’t bring a knife to an gun fight. Bring Arnold Schwarzenegger because we are fighting Skynet.

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1) 1 7:21 - The unbundling of Earth
- Tangible vs Virtual
- Real life vs Virtual World (AR)
- Supply unchained
- United Nations becoming Un-united

Less Earthly. Where we see Central becomes De-central. We see that in the Automotive industry. Walk-ins to physical showroom is slow. People do their own research virtually. It becomes a tricky environment, where there is no need a big physical showroom. There will be a time when things will be done all online. And physical interaction may not be needed anymore.

2) 21:08 - Radical transformation of Industries, Sectors & Professions
- He specifically mentioned several Automotive companies and how they are working with chip and AI manufactures to come out with AI technologies on cars. Eg: Nvidia + Mercedes Benz. We could potentially see a change in how the conventional console of the cars. Clean, lesser knobs, minimalist look and feel.

- What can be automated, will be automated. Look beyond transformation and Automation. How we should process what's the next order of implication and to have the right skills to handle it.

3)24:42 - Liminality A Stage of Transition
What has been is no more and What will be is not yet.
Normal vs New Normal
Authentic vs Synthetic
Meat vs Clean Meat

We have to embrace this liminality. There won't be a binary work. The line are blurry and the space between them is small, may converge and then fuse.
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In Summary, I have always got to remind myself, to not stay in the convoy, but to try to move to the front. Be present, flexible, to see what is emerging and pivot my skills according to the trend. Or at least try to keep up with the trends and stay in front of my pack. And if things change from Gradually to Exponentially, at least i will not be left behind.

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Liminality

Artificial intelligence begins to advance beyond human control rapidly and acquires the ability to enhance itself recursively. Those who are knowledgeable about artificial intelligence and the future frequently discuss and speculate about this subject. I can't help but worry about how I'll stay up as AI develops at an uncontrollable rate and has the capacity to improve itself again.

The end of Linear

The idea is that technological progress and innovation are becoming increasingly non-linear, and difficult to predict how we will operate in the future.  Organizations and individuals will need to be more flexible, inventive, and creative in order to adapt to new technologies and shifting conditions in a non-linear environment. I will need to keep  focus on lifelong learning and ongoing self-improvement because there will always be a need to adapt to new technology and environmental situations.

The need for a Reset

It is inevitable that we will need to change our mindset on how AI machines have invaded our daily lives, industries and communities around the world. How can we ensure that we are not stepping on thin ice comprising ethical rights while technology resets our mindsets and disrupts our comfort methods of working and living to embrace liminality in our lives?

In conclusion, I have constantly reminded myself to be in a growth mindset. In every aspect of life, learn to be flexible and willing to adapt, learn, and stay relevant in this emerging technology-driven society.

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1) The future is "free" - data literacy
In the digital world, data is becoming a "language" and until humans become increasingly fluent with this language, the future itself will seem cost-less. I feel like currently, the general level of literacy and understanding around data is very much lacking - as Roger suggests, the language of data should be taught at schools, the same way English is taught.

2) Unbundling of Earth
This was quite an uncomfortable concept for me, as someone who prefers to live in the physical realm. As the virtual and intangible expands, the answer to the question "what is real" is constantly evolving. For example, is your life in the metaverse or Second Life real?

3) Liminality
I enjoyed learning about this concept. The lines between phases are blurring and transition spaces (the in-between) are growing and evolving. It is a good reminder to not be so quick to label things, as nothing is really binary, and instead try to see things for what they are.

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1. Cyber Cold War 2.5 - The current situation from the US and the rest of the world blocking China in its path. Clearly, it will force China to act and behave in an extremely radical behavior toward tech dominance. We are already seeing China developing equally advanced AI compared to the US. I am just worried in the near future if there isn't be a more peaceful relationship between them. The future may not look too bright. We might need to call in the OG Terminator ;)

2. The end of Linear - We are already stepping at the starting edge of the end of linear. Industries have been disrupted, jobs have been replaced, the central system has broken down, and the replacement of our current 3 phase life = education, work, retire.
With the current pandemic accelerating the process, we are constantly been reminded to embrace lifelong or continuous learning, extending our retirement age or not even retiring!
So if we are already experiencing the end of linear at this stage, I ask myself, what's next after this?

3. Preferred Futures. Aspirations. - Roger clearly mentioned that the top 50 TikTok content creators have a combined population bigger than the UK, Canada, Mexico and Australia combined which to me that is really scary to see the future of our generations heavily relying on TikTok as the emerging trend and aspirations are truly demoralising. The need to educate the young to be less reliant on social media, and stop embracing gig economy. Learn to put down that phone, go out and live in the present.

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What has been is NO MORE, and what will be is NOT YET..

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1. Luminality: I like this concept of accepting things as in a state of blurry, that it is not always binary. I like this phrase:
"What has been is NO MORE, what will be is NOT YET."  But at the same time, we cannot wait for luminality to clear ones and zeros before we go to the other side.

2. Learning: It is clear the linear thinking is no longer enough to train leaders of tomorrow. I like the concept of school being a place for experimentation and failures, instead of rewarding learner for the right answers to known questions. No apology for bring wrong..

3. Future: I agree with Roger Spitz's view of preferred future where humans need to continue learning and evolving with Anti anticipatory, Anti fragility, and Adaptive Agility to live in a Hyper-Augmented world; instead of a future, where we are fragile and rigid while machines continue to learn faster. The challenge will be getting 8 billion people to be trained for that future of AAA.

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I have been forced to confront the root of the anxiety which I wanted to quell by taking up this MA program. How do I deal with an increasingly unpredictable world?

1. Developing future-proofing skills. How should I reframe education to create mindsets that encourages imagination, experimentation and creativity in my children and students? Setting an example by having a growth mindset is a start.

2. Drawing a parallel between Grey Rhinos vs Black Swans and The Serenity Prayer (God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference). Since Black Swan events cannot be predicted, I need to be robust enough to withstand its negative impact. I also wonder if there are Grey Rhinos in my workplace that I am ignoring?

3. Creative Disruption and Disruptive Innovation are key to deal with our existential threat. I need to start by becoming comfortable within the liminal space of uncertainty, and not be afraid of taking risks and make mistakes in my quest to make things better. However, I will need to develop a clearer idea of what is the future I want to create.

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1) The possibility from c-suite for ceo cfo chief marketing officer to a suite

where basically your ceo is an algorithm where the world is so complex --> unsure of how this will turn out

2) Children who are entering primary school will leave to jobs which don't even exist yet -> to really reframe education around inadequacies you should almost be measuring failure -> Scary! How to prepare them the future generation?

3) Liminality is something really new to me! I'm still grappling with the concept where it means a state/a period of transition where the only constant we have becomes ambiguous -> lines are less defined , fluid and evolving -> no more binary world possibly in 10 years or 15 years -> the lines between what's human or genetic engineering artificial intelligence what's normal new normal -> what is real life versus artificial reality or natural versus artificial

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(1) Exponential growth: Science fiction becoming science fact

Amara’s Law: “We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run.”

I’m excited yet fearful at the same time, Black Mirror episodes come to mind (art imitates life, or the other way around?). While exciting and full of potential, the Amara’s law rings true. We might not realise it but one day we might just wake up in a dystopian world, after all our feeble minds simply can’t process the speed of exponential growth.

(2) Unintended consequences of geographic concentration (dependence on China, supply crisis)

This is a topic that is often brought up in my work, so I find it particularly interesting. There is a rising nationalist/populist sentiment globally, with increasing awareness that there is a dependence on China for critical resources. I am curious what this would mean in the future, previously globalisation was hot but now it’s not.

(3) The need for a reset

I still ponder about the phrase: “the system is not broken, it was built this way”. I discussed this with friends, and still come out confused. Whether it is broken or not, it requires change but is it better to change the system part by part (which seems insufficient), or hit the reset button (which seems rather extreme)?

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1. The concept of liminality, the blurry boundary zone between spaces is becoming more than a mere transition phase. How do we adapt in this blurry grey zone?

2. Education- how do we support the changes in education for our kids today? Other than embracing failures- how should we reset/ rebuild the education system?

3. AAA, Anticipatory, Antifragile and with Agility (AAA) concept can be easily understood but how can we practise it?

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Hybrid Humans
Curious to find out what happens when technology and humans converge to become one entity. The speaker mentioned Ray Kurzweil, a well-known futurist, who predicted that by the 2030s, humans would be more non-biological than biological. It gave me a curious yet exciting feeling to know that one-day humans can become hybrids and probably even achieve immortality when our brains can be backup. This is also a rather scary thought to wonder what's left of us when multiple copies of our backup brains get transferred to new bodies or machines. What's our identity, or does that even matter in the future?

Grey Rhinos
It was an interesting concept from the consumer's viewpoint on data protection. I wonder who the ‘real’ rhino keepers are and what it would take for them to stop ignoring the obvious issues here. Multiple clashes of rhinos to create a black swan event?

Conventional Learning and AAA
Rewarding students for repeating the correct answers vs creative thinking and learning from failures. I think the future of technology and how it is rapidly changing the world suggests that humans need to become more "triple A" to cope with the changes. It is also to avoid getting replaced by machines or obsolete from the moment one takes his/her first step into the workplace after school. This concept links nicely to the earlier takeaway that we should be aware of the grey rhinos in us, to slay it and avoid becoming rhino keepers if we want ourselves and our children to thrive in this VUCA/BANI world.

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24:42 - Liminality
The blurry boundary zone between spaces is becoming more than a mere transition phase.
What has been is no more and what will be is not yet. This stuck a chord in me as i am coming to terms with this evolving mindset of relearning and adding this idea into the mix of exploring helps me to think deeper in the exploration of the term "End State".

28:36 - AI & "Decision-Making Value Chain"
Hyper-Augmentation
Machines are learning fast. Are We?
I am still in the frame of exploring AI methods with the recent trends of GPT and OpenAI. so this topic definitely feels very relevant and i believe i am as human should improve more in order to harness the power of technology

36:10 - Reimagining Education
Reframing education around inadequacies and measuring failure as an achievement and accepted as a path to learn and iterate.
I am never an academic so i feel very empowered by this as well. How can i create an environment for learning and education for myself and my teammates in order to become better in an infinite game.

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My 3 Key Takeaways (Yann Huoy)

China AI national competitiveness

I feel uneasy about the ‘surveillance state’ of China that helped to advance its AI national competitiveness (vast quantity of data). The intention of surveillance systems depends on the people who build them. I am concerned about the digital authoritarianism of China that could be used as a means of repression and social control.

Liminality

The past is gone and future is yet to come in this less binary world. We are redefining a lot of things and sometimes the uncertainties feels a little overwhelming. The normal vs new normal post covid is the most relatable example of this liminality where we need to learn, unlearn and relearn of this rapid changing world.

Reimagining Education

I agree that the schooling system is ill-adapted to today’s world. I am not sure if the current education system can change fast enough to shape leaders for the future. How do we teach kids to embrace ambiguity, uncertainty and complexity if the teachers are not well equipped in this area too?

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1. 100 years life - I do believe I would be living close to 95 years old (based on statistics, I was born in the 80's) in recent years based on the book and the articles that i read. I would likely work longer working lives as well. There is growing evidence that working longer than the traditional retirement age has health and longevity benefits. It is good for our health if we stay mentally, socially, and physically active for longer. Longer work lives will require retraining and reskilling. Employers and educators are seeing the importance of creating programs and environments to support this.

2. Liminality -  During the pandemic, lots of us are struggling to live in the “now”. That “now”, with all its uncertainty, doesn’t look like the life we used to live or the life we imagine we will return to. Maybe because we’ve been through the phase, it actually provides ways to better understand the foggy, ambiguous space we currently inhabit. I was more prepared to venture into my future career  - just like sitting an exam and waiting for the outcome. I am not able to plan ahead and are balancing thoughts of passing or failing, all at the same time.

3. Reframe education and inadequacies - Educational systems can be more resilient and better prepared for future crises only if the solutions rely on innovative ways to move from a schooling system

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Embracing machines: Machines will have an increasingly important role in society and way of life. As I learn about AI, and ML, the more I realised I don’t know much. I’m also curious to see how everything evolves in the future and the benefits it can bring forth.

Liminality: As we enter a stage of transition, things become more ambiguous. How will the society as a whole move towards that together?

Future of learning: I’m excited about the future of learning, with advancement of technology there’s bound to be innovative ways of learning. Instead of being result focused, how might we empower children and the future generation to strive and live in a world that is ambiguous?

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Reset
I feel positive as chaotic times can be the best time to drive transformation through collective imagination to address inequality in the system while managing the complexity - reset is a catalyst to rebirth.

Luminality
What is new is we can't auto-pilot through the in between, no waiting for things to pass. Stage or period of transition, an in between where the concept is a big blur. Embracing learn, unlearn and relearn.

Radical Transparency
I feel this is a great thing as it fosters accountability and traceability of what company says, it is an act of balancing stakeholder capitalism and shareholder primacy.

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These future emerging technologies will change the way how we live, how we look after our bodies (wearable smart watch tracking) and help us to avert a climate disaster. For instances, there are artificial intelligence programs writing poems from scratch and making images from nothing more than a worded prompt, there are bionic eyes, massive holograms and food made in labs. All this exciting new emerging technology of the future uncertainty just scratches the surface of what is out there!

Technology moves at a rapid pace these days. It can sometimes feel like every single day there is a new technology that is going to soon revolutionize in near future. But with so many massive technological emerging happening all the time, it is easy to lose track of the ways how the world is progressing.

Future for Lifelong Learning Paving:  "Learn, Unlearn and Relearn"
I strongly believes in embracing the new perspectives as an inescapable route that would enrich one’s life and work, as well as resonated strongly of an individual empowerment that one really knows what the future will entail with purposeful things leading to self-improvement.

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Beyond Complexities - embrace ambiguities (Rebecca Lim)

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Beyond Complexities - embrace ambiguities (Rebecca Lim)

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It is no secret that I am a big systems thinking fangirl and so my three key takeaways should come as no surprise to the facilitators. :-)

Let's start with the big picture. Since the brief said to discuss how I was affected emotionally, I would just confess to being blown away by the thought of "beyond complexities". I had been quite content to grapple with complexities and ambiguities - in fact, I would even characterise myself as someone who thrives in negotiating the unknowns and embracing change. But the concept of things being so complex that it may be beyond our current understanding of complexities - which, to be honest, when applied using the cynefin framework, while already mind-blowing as it is, is still, nonetheless, putting a structure and framework to the ambiguities. What Roger Spitz posits ups the ante - we have to break out of even our current thinking and frameworks to go beyond complexity, beyond VUCA and BANI. With exponential change / developments, the convergence of emerging technologies, science fiction possibly becoming science fact, there is so much unpredictability and uncertainty, that we will just have to embrace not being able to make sense of everything within the signifiers, symbols and frames we have come to adopt and rely on.

I was also intrigued by his discourse on liminality. This is a much more elegant, sophisticated and higher order thinking of the cliche that I've been dishing to my kids and teams at work - "the only constant is change". To embrace liminality and leverage the transitions is almost like saying this is the pathway to nirvana in a disrupted and disrupting world. We can be released from the fear, suffering and anxiety of disruption, if we are able to exist in liminality and accept that what is to come will come, and we will be able to adapt and adopt as it comes. This felt almost spiritual to me, and yes, I love elegant, precise words, and "liminality" is one such word. Word.

Last but not least, on a more grounded level, I appreciated his pitch on the need for education to fully embrace and encourage ambiguity, uncertainty and complexity. One of my biggest bugbears is that our education systems are not keeping pace with the exponential disruptions happening all around us. We are still expecting our kids to remember and regurgitate, instead of teaching them to question, challenge, break things, and build them again. The word "failure" should not even exist in education. Grades are meaningless when no educator can give you the correct, model answer to what the world will look like when you leave school. To all the teachers on this programme and out there - it is time to shake things up and break the system.

Last but not least (and this is not one of the three key takeaways), I was intrigued by the term Roger Spitz coined for his platform - "Techistential". Tech as existential. That about sums it up.

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Blade Runner - Final scene, "Tears in Rain" Monologue (HD)

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1.  Exponential vs Incremental - as valid as the statement is, is does also raised another truth fact.  Are we riding on something humanity not able to handle?  Is the current waving of technology progression the path towards destruction?
2. Scaling vs growth - what is the real differentiation between scaling and growth?  What constitute growth?  The obsession of technology development without fully understanding of the unintended consequences and the true implication.
3. Correlation vs causation - how does that change the way we make use of our data?  Does that enlarge the cognitive bias moving forward as we deployed more AI in our decision making process?
Are we using AI as a prediction tool or extrapolation tool?
In fact it raises more questions than answers.

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1) Data science classes in school
Roger suggest that data classes should be an integrated part of the school schema as with English today, and I fully support this perspective and believe that it is paramount to teach our young generations the essentials of the data language. By understanding data’s impact and importance on an individual as well as societal level, I am convinced that we can help the children to successfully navigate in our data-driven future world. In general, I find the area of future schooling very interesting and am excited to see to what extent our school system will transform in the coming years and thus foster different ways of educating and learning through data and digital tools.

2) The end of linear lives
Roger mentions that today’s linear life cycle categorized in ‘education, work and retirement’ will be restructured in the future where we are expected to have 100-year lives.
I regard this both fascinating and thought-provoking at the same time. Consequently, I can’t stop thinking how our coming generations – including my own children – will ‘map’ their lives differently (and more flexible and ‘fluid’?) and do away with the ‘norms’ of living and working due to prolonged life durations.

3) Automation of everything
The statement by Roger, “Everything that can be automated, everything that can be disintermediated, will be”, really piqued my interest and curiosity and got me to think about work automation thanks to AI. This technology will undoubtedly change our job tasks, remove loads of existing positions and require us to somehow up-skill ourself in the coming years. However, I am a strong believer that we can all benefit from automated AI inventions particularly in work contexts, where it can help us to be even more productive and to leverage our performance.

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3 Key idea that affect me emotionally - Philemon Chin

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The future is coming, we might be on day 20+ today, where suddenly the future arrives like the lilies which becomes 100% full in a short span.

While no one can predict the future, some concept shared in the video does bother me.

The end of Linear - Modified aging - 100 - year life.
Indeed in the Bible, ancient people lived many years. Noah lived 950 years, while Abraham died at age 175. But modern human being have slowly increase my live span gradually. Having a average lifespan of 100 years changed many things. Retirement fund increase tremendously, healthcare, insurance, retirement age, everything changes. If we are playing God in extending our life, we need to find the purpose of it. A long life without purpose and quality is not worth living.

Digital - Virtual World
Are we really going to be more non-biological than biological in 2030? Are we going to be less organic by living life just like the movie "Ready Player One"? With everything going digital and non-tangible, how is it going to be regulated, to protect it, to have the moral compass on it?

Liminality
With technologies, artificial products are created daily. Fake sugar for diabetic patient, fake salt, fake meat or eventually hybrid human? Robotcop? X-men? I hope all these continue to be science fiction. If one day human cannot clearly identify something, and rely on Artificial Intelligence to define for us, then mankind has lost the dominance over the earth, or digital earth.

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Dee 3 Key Takeaways

I’m super stoked with this module while working on this pre-work. The word "Futurist" intrigued me. I’m often thought that I was conflicted with being hi-tech and lo-fi. My feelings towards technology has always been optimistic especially when it comes to autonomous intelligent systems, which fascinates me. Yet, I’m at the point in my life where I want to slow down and be unplugged. My biggest concern over time is about the lost of craftsmanship, and culture.

To that end, I’m excited that I have this opportunity to learn, and relearn, this is the perfect time to be in this space. Roger Spitz has opened up my mind to so much possibilities in good faith. After all, as a Gen-Xer, I’ve live through an analog time and  am enjoying the perks of digitalisation now.

1. Liminality: transition, ambiguous, lines are less defined. What’s the new normal?  We are living the new normal every single day. Embracing new technologies  mobile payment, food deliveries, new apps, living in an instant world, filtered lenses, covering up blemishes, showing the world our happy filtered lives. It is then up to us to have the discernment for what’s real and what’s not. Transitions are often uncomfortable, but it's through the discomfort that we progress.

2.  Radical Transparency & Traceability.  It forces companies to look at their purpose and authenticity, to have transparency in their clean supply chain. This trend is a positive upscale as we do see brands being called out for green and social washing.

3. Reset / Re:birth / Re:imagine, letting go of some of the legacy that is no longer relevant, be it in our organisation, our homes, our country, our education systems. Let go of “same old same old behaviours or worse, work place culture” - just because we have always done it this way, does not mean we can’t change it.  Now, it seems we have the opportunity to shape our future.  We live in a world that is now embracing non binary in all it's forms. Let's embrace the ambiguities in true faith.

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Is the future free?

Since digitisation and demonetisation are non-marginal costs, when something is digitised and demonetised, it's dematerialised and democratised at the same time. Everyone with a smartphone has access to the same information. However, he considers the following implications- software eating other software and AI taking over human jobs- as becoming an environment where all matters are data. Decoding the word "free" reveals that the future does not seem free when technology feeds the data for machines to learn from. I have to ask myself as I feel lost, and everything seems uncertain. How do I position myself in this ecosystem at the end of liminality?

Cyber Cold War 2.5

In the meantime, while the EU adopted the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and Apple implemented App Tracking Transparency, China continues to monitor 1.5 billion people. As a result, they are developing AI algorithms, strengthening China's chip manufacturing position, especially with AI edge chips and proprietary deep learning. Eventually, they can create their supply chain and be independent of this technology. Roger mentions Radical Transparency, even though he did not connect this topic to China. Still, I wonder how important the role of transparency for social impact will be for China to win this war.

Hyper Augmentation

This will augment human intelligence cognitive computing, for example, autonomous intelligence finding insightful data by pattern recognitions as synergetic for humans. However, Roger gives a few examples of hyper augmentation, like Erica, the AI actor and AI robot lawyer. While technology can be a cause of aversion, it also provides people equal access to data at the same time. This reminds me of how the public is mocking Meta's VR implementation. We might need a different perspective on public literacy to understand these transitions.

Personally, the most impactful part was this.
Preferred Futures. Aspirations.

The success of Tik Tok, one of the most valuable unicorns, makes us wonder whether we're on the right path to mastering complexity and disruption. Roger suggested reframing our education to encourage imagination, embrace ambiguity, reset some legacy, and understand social inequalities and climate to integrate into our system. This part was powerful regarding the importance of being mindful and proactive about the role of technology in our lives and digital future.

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End of a linear world and into the in-between.

The linear way has always been human's comfort space because it is efficient, help makes sense, and gauges when processing information, patterns, and behaviours. From the start of education to the adult phase, there has always been a distinctive linear path people would take, specialised or identify. But a non-linear path and a liminality lens allow for greater flexibility and adaptability in solving and deciding in a complex scenario. Non-linear thinking will enable individuals to break away from rigidness, consider multiple perspectives, and foster creativity rather than relying solely on established patterns and procedures. It also allows humans to recognise patterns and make connections that may not be presently obvious. This ability to think and learn in a non-linear manner is what will enable humans to innovate and evolve with skills and critical thinking alongside machines and AI.

The meaning of a 'free future.'

The term free is multifaceted and complex. With emerging technology that can either increase freedom, liberate poverty and empower everyone with equal rights and play, that same freedom can potentially limit and undermine security and privacy. So is a narrative equally important when embarking on such implementation as what P Venkatesh mentioned 'from whose point of view' are we building this for? Whose future is this free for? Every freedom obtained is fought and sacrificed in some way or another. Roger shared in his video that he believes that data literacy should be taught like any other language. The future will always involve data, and data, for the most part, will never be completely free. Thus, having literacy on what it means will give people greater insights, knowledge, and new professional skills.

Fall off the edge of the playground.

Roger shared that it is essential to reframe education and inadequacies. That is not just applicable to schools but also to organisations. For example, the way we have always perceived failure has always been what's wrong or right, thus limiting what we can and dare to imagine, innovate, and create. However, when we start fostering and inculcating into people a landscape where there is no apology for failure, but through iterations, new ideas are born. Therefore, humans, in general, should be encouraged to imagine, iterate, adapt, and navigate. While it definitely would mean getting out of your comfort zone and being comfortable with uncertainty, as Roger mentioned, this way forward into the future, if not carefully managed, will 'create leaders who can't lead.'

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1) The trade war has had unintended consequences, accelerating China's technology push to become a tech powerhouse in the region. With a large population and resources, they have the capacity to push the boundaries, potentially forcing the Western world to keep up with the pace. This will ultimately contribute to technological advancement.

2) The discussion of exponential technology made me consider how the skills and jobs we know today may not be applicable tomorrow and how it is rapidly changing the job market. Technological advancement has helped to create roles that were unheard of. It has become difficult to identify and anticipate what skillset we need to possess in order to remain relevant in the next decade.

3) The term "fall off the edge of the playground" is an interesting idea to educate children on how to deal with complexity and uncertainties. I believe it is critical for kids to learn to embrace and understand uncertainties and the complexities of the world. As a parent, I must unlearn my own upbringing's teachings and become at ease with the chaos and potential changes that lie ahead. I should also encourage my children to experiment more by providing a safe environment in which they may try new things, make mistakes, and learn from their failures.

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World is changing exponentially.

The uncertainty of the future is already a concerned. Especially when we are moving from a world which is complicated and sometimes complex with the degree of acceleration in the concept of exponential where its becoming more tangible. As humans capabilities of cognitive biases and think linearly, we need to prepare what might happen next. We can't predict what's trapidate because things can happen gradually and suddenly. One good example during Covid-19 where the whole world needs to adapt to the "new norm".

Free technology good vs bad intention.

We, humans, love stuf  that is free. With free emerging technologies, many technologists converge with ease and create democratisation into monetized stream for either good or bad. Due to exponential growth, more cyber terrorism are also exponentially accelerating. Softwares are eating softwares and we are entering an environment where data are the main source of wealth.

What's real?

The psychological process of transitioning across boundaries in the concept of liminality from emergence to convergence of digital synergies creates a life out of the binary world. Although we need to embrace it, it will be a challenge in near future navigating and adapting to accelerating paradigm shift.

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Does this look like the future of humanity?

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1. Education: Our current knowledge-based education system is woefully inadequate to prepare our children for future jobs that don't exist yet. As mum to a primary schooler, this concerns me the most. Rote learning, for example, is taking the joy away from learning and stifling creativity and problem solving. Is the Singapore education system agile enough transform the way our children learn, to ready them for the future? If we can’t rely on the education system, what can we do as parents?

2. Liminality: This transitional stage is incredibly exciting and full of possibilities. For example, look at what we’ve achieved with generative AI in just a matter of a few years, with the convergence of various technologies. But I also read with uncertainty and anxiety about other developments such as neurotechnology, for example, Neuralink’s ambition to merge humans with AI – it makes me wonder about its unintended consequences, which for me are too mind-boggling to ponder at the moment.

3. Future- proofing humanity: The exponential growth in technology has tremendous potential to benefit humankind at large, but how do we ensure that it doesn’t just benefit technologically advanced countries, and widen the inequality gap? AI turns human capital into machine capital, so how would this impact poorer countries with high unskilled labour and basic education?

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1.) AI is set to take over most of our daily lives. From driverless vehicles to self learning computing power, humans will rely more on machines and technology. But technology in whatever form should only augment, and not substitute us.

2.) We are humans. We have a life, we love it, and want to live it according to our way and speed. Tech can help us with tasks, but if we have to keep up with tech and live their lives, then where is ours?

3.) Machines and technology are made to process faster and make zero mistakes. Humans on the other hand, keep experiencing setbacks which allows us to rethink, recreate, reset our paths that allows us to evolve and move forward.

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Science Fiction becoming Science Fact

"Once confined to fantasy and science fiction, time travel is now simply an engineering problem." - Prof. Michio Kaku

I've always viewed future technology as something to embrace, not fear, thus, the futurist in me is absolutely thrilled by this concept. In my mind, there are few things that have the potential to pull and bring people together, and space is one of them. Similar to how the US pulled together for the race to the moon, or how nations have pulled together to build the ISS, I feel that making what we only saw in The Jetsons, Star Trek, etc. (especially as it concerns to space and time travel) - requires and is capable of demanding - true uniting force.

Encourage Ambiguity, Uncertainty, and Complexity

"I'm talking about the fact that children entering primary school will leave to jobs that don't even exist yet." - Roger Spitz

While my above statement reflects my idealism about the future, this one amplifies my parental anxiety. How can we prepare - or protect - our children from a future that we can scarcely imagine much less understand - and what will the future of jobs truly be like? Will they be part of a sandwich generation that becomes obsolete before they could even set out - or, will progress in education come fast enough to prepare them for - maybe not for jobs per se, but for life's work.

The Need for a Reset

"It's an existential moment for reimagining the world." - Roger Spitz

The sentiment challenges me. The work that we do now, the steps we take, the decisions we make, the values we uphold, challenge, or accept, and the systems we scaffold on - are what will build the principles on which the future will be built. It may be the 0.00001% who are funding, advancing, discovering, or disrupting, but we have our own roles to play in framing the future we want - in our families, homes, schools, workplaces, and environments.

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1.       Cyber Cold War

A slightly scary and yet expected event. It appears that a cyber arms race is inevitable as hardware is finally catching up to software demands. But regardless of national-state boundaries, what would the repercussions be for us as individual users? And what concessions to privacy and human rights would we make in order to gain an advantage in the impending cyber cold war?

2.       Liminality

While seemingly innocuous, liminality is an uneasy concept to embrace, especially since there is no one-size-fits-all approach to finding stability in an unstable transitional space. How do we then train ourselves and the next generation emotionally and mentally for this experience? And is this really the best course of action? What would our future look like if we accelerated and forced ourselves into the next zone as quickly as possible?

3.       Reset

There is a moment, after creative destruction, when we wipe the slate clean and get an opportunity to really think about what we want to rebuild in the new world. We have a chance to take the lessons we've learned from our past and make sure that what rises from the ashes is better than what we had before. This idea of a fresh start or second chance is liberating and gives me a little more hope for the future.

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Future is Free

Being free always entice anyone or everyone for that matter, as the apps and software we are accessing came at no-cost and its accessible everywhere. However "free" will come at a cost of one's privacy where big corporations will use these data to their own gains. With privacy policy, terms and conditions are at lengthy, user may not realize they have just "sell" themselves with every action, click or activities they made to the platform. Well Tik Tok is just one example.

Science Fiction becomes Science Fact

It is very scary to see that it is actually becoming true. With robotics and AI can actually replace the human brain and the human itself, what more can this lead humanity to just survive in the future?

Cyber Cold War 2.5

Not surprising, China is already moving far ahead than the rest of the world in terms of tech usage and AI. Just look at their digital payment methods integration like WeChat. And China don't need the west, in fact its the other way around.

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1. The trade war between US and China has unintended consequences when it comes to developing digital technologies. Apart from the sanctions of commodities and currency, the dependence on the most importance ingredient on building new technologies - AI chips which uses new generation of microprocessors are being denied to China has also accelerated their own independence to innovate and explore their own inventions. It's been predicted that China, when forced to produce their own versions of operating systems successfully, can also develop their own chips that are potentially equal, if not faster, and quicker than the ones not accessible to them currently.

2. The main alliance with demonetization and digital currency is to do with the need to transact in a more secure environment, eliminating counterfeiting and battle money laundering. It sure works wonders for countries with poor note design, low currency exchange rate and high inflation. However, transforming a legal tender note into an electronic money, whilst adopting digital currency such as Bitcoin and Ethereum also brings forward its own challenges - how to make them legal tender and how to stabilise their value (not perceived/speculative). Its certain that digitalization of money attempts to make the world a more transparent trading environment, lower banking costs and quicker transactions but the drawback is the economic prowess of different regions. Bigger nations have lesser incentives to adopt the switch as their currency is still more valuable.

3. Creativity in the entertainment industry can only be described as the various depiction of moods, behavior, language, emotions and movements of actors in the most natural displays. The AI actor, while able to absorb large amounts of actions in movie scripts, is a novel attempt to simplify shooting scenes. Until the breakthrough of machine deep learning by the "robotic" actors to exhibit/show emotions, movie production will not seen as exciting knowing almost perfect lines to speak but audiences are unable to catch visual actions corresponding to speech. This may not be a far-fetched idea, but let's see how fans warm up to an AI actor who is still figuring out how to learn emotions and display them.

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A $70 million science fiction film has cast Erica, an AI robot, in new sci-fi film 'b.'

The new feature is financed by Bondit Capital Media - the backers of 'To the Bone' and 'Loving Vincent - will be the first to rely on an AI actor.

Erica was initially created by Japanese engineers Hiroshi Ishiguro and Kohei Ogawa as part of a study of robotics. The pair claim they were then able to teach the 'her' the principles of method acting.

Speaking to hollywoodreporter.com Khoze explained that "other methods of acting, actors involve their own life experiences in the role [but] Erica has no life experiences. She was created from scratch to play the role. We had to simulate her motions and emotions through one-on-one sessions, such as controlling the speed of her movements, talking through her feelings and coaching character development and body language..

The robot was originally going to have its first role in a project by American History X's director Tony Kaye. However, the project never materialised due to scheduling issues.

While neither the director for 'b' or its human co-stars have been attached the films produces have already shot some footage of Erica in Japan and expect to complete filming in Europe next June.

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World first - A.I. 'Actress' Cast lands Lead in $70M Sci-Fi Film - Born to Engineer

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A $70 million science fiction film has cast Erica, an AI robot, in new sci-fi film 'b.' The new feature is financed by Bondit Capital Media - the backers of 'To the Bone' and 'Loving Vincent - will be the first to rely on an AI actor.

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Shareholder Capitalism

I am absolutely invested in the idea of shareholder capitalism. Yet, I always question if that can really happen. I feel that inherent inequity in society means that there will always be shareholders who will be more equal than others. I wonder if we will be in the same place with different chains on. "Man is born free, but everywhere he goes, he is in chains."

China as the Future

I find it terrifying, but also exciting. The Chinese do not ring fence their innovations from each other. Its like an open space where one person's innovation can be copied and improved and then worked on again by the originator. It may be strange to those who are immensely invested in the traditional notion of intellectual property. We have to be careful as well not to apply our own ideas on values on what they do. They may build something we need soon, but unfortunately, this has become political.

Amara's Law

This is one concept I use again and again to remind myself to look more carefully at new innovations. I remember how we had a huge 3D movement in films and content just over a decade ago... and it fizzled. Same with NFTs and Cryptos at the moment. Yet, they will build up to something. We just need to predict better what trends would actually become mundane.... that is when it will become widespread.

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1. Fusion & Convergence
"Once confined to fantasy and science fiction, time travel is now simply an engineering problem"
- Prof Michio Kaku

On top of the professor's name, I also love his quote. It's not just about the possibility of time travel through convergence and fusion,  we can already experience the fusion of technologies like AI in many of our machineries today. We are probably only limited by our imagination. So why not time travel?

2. The Future of Strategic Decision-Making
This is an exciting one. With many of our 'future' predictions, to make strategic, long term decisions is probably ranked lowest in possibility for AI to takeover.

Looking at what Roger is suggesting, CEOs could potentially be an algorithm and I imagine it rightly so seeing the increase of Decentralised Autonomous Organisations. I am partially worried that I may run out of a job now!

3. The future is "free"
Listening into Roger's POV on a free future is positive for me. My takeaway is that although the future is uncertain, exponentially growing and sometimes scary...possibilities of universal basic income, being able to do anything, anywhere at anytime, opens up countless of possibilities.

I just hope that I will be alive to experience this future.

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1) The concept of Exponential Growth
- the concept that human tends to overestimate the impact of technology in the short-term and underestimate the impact in the long-term. This gets me excited and nervous. What is the next big impact coming and how can I prepare for it?

2) Liminality: Blurry boundary zone in between spaces
- lines are being blurred and things will not be 100% on one side. What will happen to human value in the value chain? Seems like the new world will be ruled by the few big techs who are way ahead of most of the population? Where is social equality?

3) The 100 year life - Modified Aging
- if the 3 phase life is becoming more obsolete, how we measure success moving forward? How should we educate our next generation? How can we create leaders of the future who can be adaptable?

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1.  Technology is a driver that promises significant progress but delivers little in the short term. Exponential takes place slowly and suddenly. We are always fixated on being able to harness the promise of technology to do things better but
we need to be careful in what can be done better with machines and be able to navigate through complexity to thrive in the future world.

2. Politics driving local ecosystems and AI competitiveness in the case of China. Globalisation vs regionalisation will lead to much changes in the global supply chain and how we will do things differently in this new normal. We need to be open to idea of disruption and innovations changing the things we never thought was possible or "science friction" and be not overly anxious about it but learn to work with it.

3. The blurring of lines and boundaries with AI makes it very difficult to have binary definitions of what is real or fake / what is right or wrong as we negotiate convergence to human intelligence with paradigm shifts, ,manage chaos and work within creative destruction and disruptive innovation to crave out a path for ourselves and work out what we need to rebuild.

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1. The decline of Tangibles and the increase in Intangibles as well as Infrastructure 5.0
To rely less on assets, buildings etc and the reliance on human and intellectual capital, AI, data, as well as the increase in better digital infrastructure (e.g. internet, storage, computer power)

2. Liminality: ambiguity and less defined lines!
As someone who would pride herself as having a clear moral compass, black vs white -no grey, this requires alot of unpacking. Real vs Fake, Authentic vs Synthetic, Home vs Office -> the lines are getting so blurred. It's something I am still trying to understand.

3. Creative Machines
While I appreciate that machines can aid us in research, visualising, enhance our experience and all that, I draw the line when humans get replaced by robots. Especially in the art industry. It is already so hard to make a living in the arts, and to have robots replace artists, that will be a losing battle. https://stylecaster.com/who-plays-m3gan/

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Who Plays M3GAN? Here’s Who Voices the Doll in ‘M3GAN’ & if There Was a Real Person Behind the Robot

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The character was inspired by Chucky and ventriloquist dummies.

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Re: Rebirth & AAA

It seems as though the world is at a phase of tinkering: breaking things apart and re-amalganizing them back together just to get a sense of what could be. It is an exciting time, and I get this feeling that humanity is at a cusp of some kind of revolutionary evolution; one that could possibly either make or break us - but into what, it really does seem unimaginable.

The idea excites me. On the other hand, I cannot help but feel a little concerned about whether I can remain relevant. It almost seems as though to survive (not simply to flourish), one has to be everything all in one which does currently seem to be an impossibility in my mind.

Much of what people seem to be saying about "future scenarios" seem to reflect the need for agility or adaptability. It reminds me of a haiku I read at an early age that has stuck with me for eons: it was one about how the sturdy tree is uprooted by the cyclone, contrasted with the weed that flourishes even after the storm.

On one hand, the fragility cum resilience of being like a weed does appeal to me - being something without roots and free to explore whatever the hell is out there. On the other hand, there's a part of me that desires rootedness in something - the need for an anchor that keeps me stable. How to find the balance without losing who I am?

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As much as I am curious and I'm also scared with this machines in our future.

1. The exponential technology. We have so many emerging technologies and yet to explore each one of it and by the time we are exploring, new technology arise and overtakes the last technology.

2. The future is free? A zero marginal cost? How true that research could be?

3. Ethics. Since our world surrounded by machines, will ethics be considered?

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Vincent

1. Reset and change: When any new tech emerge, there will be big changes. There will be money to be made, opportunities will present itself for a few and likely benefit many but some of us will be left behind. How will the government help those who tends to fall behind. It be be the elderly’s day to day life to the older worker undergoing change of legacy systems. And will the government step up and take the lead in this change?

2. Ethic and doing what’s right: who is to decide what is right and what is wrong. It’s easy to define 1 rule for 1 technology but what happens when you mix them up? How can big brother be fast enough to shield the  vulnerable group? Since everyone’s definition of ethic is different, how do we keep it in check for the smaller scale situation where big brother can’t intervene? Automate it or keep the job alive? How are we able to shift job scope to those whose jobs are being replaced. Protecting all the data given to your organisation is a given right? Then why are we hearing leaks and hacks all the time? This is one big problem that needs to be addressed.

3. With all the problems and flaws I see, I am actually hyped for the future, with car and chip makers joining hands, how will my future car look like? How will new technology help my parent who has dementia? Will AI become sentient during my lifetime?

4. Bottom line: Will tech make us all lazy? I bet some of us, even I am guilty of this. But change is inevitable and we have to make the best of the change and move forward as a society

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Here are my 3 key takeaways:

1. Exponential

Humans have difficulty processing exponential trends due to their bias toward a linear mindset. Technology is radically reshaping many industries right now, with some even changing the economy as a whole and the meaning of "work." In order to survive, we must prepare for a world that moves "gradually, then suddenly."

2. The Future is “Free”: Data literacy

As the world becomes increasingly digital and dematerialized, data is becoming a language. People may seem to live in an increasingly cost-free future as they become more fluent in this language.

3. Cyber Cold War 2.5

One example is with China's independence from technology and supply chains, #TheFutureIsChina has unintended consequences.

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(i) Abandoning linearity: I do feel genuinely excited about this idea. I thought that it was about time that we walk the non-linear line. I am so ready to consider plausible, non-linear scenarios and "chasm jumping" of forecasting and projection. The old, tried and tested, and so failed, walking a straight line should be abandoned really. Yet, it can be scary-exciting at the same time. Scholars posit that within a complex, non-linear environment, we must fundamentally shift our focus. How apt is this reminder?

(ii) Abandoning rigid structures: This comforts me. I've never felt at ease with rigidity. Perhaps, never quite able to conform -  I am a quiet non-conformist. We must truly learn to look, instead, at the relationships between things. It is the interconnections that truly matter. The dynamic relationships between the parts of a system are not chaos. With a radical perspective of the non-linearity and non-rigidity of problem-solving, we might reach groundbreaking discoveries then.

(iii) The future of education: This one is so close to my heart. I have always identified myself as a teacher at heart, seeking the smallest of ways to be a better one each day. Of late, educators and ed researchers have been positing for a redesigned of education to prepare for the work of tomorrow. While this is music to my ears, I do realise that the stance has been rather one-dimensional, or at times rather shallow and/or narrow - in terms of the view of education as well as of 'the future'. Wouldn't a more robust multi-dimensional model(s) of education is needed - with respect to the future? Students do need to be futurists in their own right especially since our forecasts will be outdated by the time they arrive. Why aren't curriculum developers integrating Futures Thinking? Just as I am passionate about critical thinking, design thinking, and systems thinking, I too realise that futures thinking has a seat at the table!

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1. Exponential Growth - things can happen gradually then very suddenly. How can we prepare ourselves in an increasingly changing future where technologies grow exponentially given our difficulty processing exponential trends, more so when Amara's law is taken into consideration where humans underestimate the effect of technology in the long run.

2. Education - we won't know what jobs will exist for our children. Education would need to be reframed right from the fundamentals to help prepare them to explore and fail more to be better adapted for the future. However, this would also require us to reframe our expectations of education from being fixated with the known into embracing and rewarding the unknown.

3. Anticipatory, Antifragile and Adaptive Agility - to remain relevant, humans must become increasingly anticipatory and antifragile, with agility. We have to learn how to partner with machines to add value and improve our decision making, less being marginalized or substituted by AI.

Summarising, to adapt in a future increasingly dominated by ever growing technologies, it ties down to how we can best adapt ourselves to embrace and partner with technologies to remain relevant.

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Existing trends to Exponential
We must do our best to be ready for any eventuality. Things may develop gradually before suddenly changing. This is an exciting idea being explained clearly.

Radical Transparency & Traceability.
I'm thrilled that ESG is taking the world by storm and making it a better place to live.

Fusion emerges from Convergence.
In particular, how do we manage complexity through suffering while avoiding being caught off guard? It is fascinating to contemplate a different world where fragility or antifragility is used to transform the world.

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1. The Future is "Free"

"Free" is always too good to be true, being in the digital industry has made me experienced the hyped and the downside. With all the low code or no code upcoming softwares/tools versus to the effort we spent years hands on learning and experimenting from scratch. I am trying to re-adjust mindset towards data and augmentation versus substitution.

2. The Need for a Reset

Had these conversation not long ago wondering how hard it is now to come up with new invention or innovation. Most ideas has been done before or build on, are these the results in Tech industries economy downturn as we have reaches the peak? How can we swap from coming up with new ideas to disrupt innovation?

3. The Future of Strategic Decision-Making

The AAA framework is important to thrive in this complexity innovations that we are living in. I wonder how can we be strategic in decision-making when the world are becoming unpredictable and almost impossible to catch up with.

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Radical Transparency & Traceability
I wonder if forced accountability really possible when it comes to "stakeholder capitalism vs shareholder primacy"? Inasmuch as brands are being called out for being contradictory or for social washing, is it too idealistic a concept to call for transparency when profit-making is the end-goal.

Liminality vs Structure
It's still a scary concept that "everything blurs ... what has been is no more, and what will be is not yet." Is it possible to put a structure or a framework to such ambiguities ... like (hopefully) what we are trying to accomplish in this course? I'm excited and nervous to have to learn to embrace these transitions that are happening in our lifetime--the need to unlearn what we have learnt becomes crucial in order for us to adapt and thrive.

AAA training for our future leaders?
Humans need to be Anticipatory+Antifragile+have Adaptive Agility ... so that we can augment our decision making with machines and not be substituted. Looking at the current education system, I wonder how it will evolve to prepare our children for this future scenario. Eg. Failure is not always wrong but rather a possible platform for new ideas to come forth.

Last thoughts: I think as we really look into the future, it'd throw up more questions than we can answer. Talking to my colleagues and family, the parents especially are taking a hard look at how they can prepare their children for "their world beyond grades" when they (the parents) do not yet have a good grasp on what is to come.

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250km foldie trip to Malacca for a bonding session with my boy before CNY hols seems a bit unlinear & unconventional (even undesirable according to the gramps) to many but its deserving a DAB cos its pure "DEIP"!

Roger Spitz coins DEIP (DeLocalized, Experiential, Immersive & Personalized) in his video as what he characterized as the persistent elements in the future regardless of what forms or functions it takes and that emotionally impacted me on a 'deip' level (had to pun it!).

(1) DeLocalization
Apps like Strava helped make the trip possible as it made my teenage son research, compare and even go into the minds of like-minded people who clock in routes from Malacca to Mecca, even-all for free! It made him feel he belonged to a bigger community of endurance and enthusiasts, adventurers. Already he's made plans for Europe & its not those holiday sorts. Strava just bought a 3d mapping startup to improve the experience and can run on smartwatches independently of mobile devices - so it will soon be agnostic on wearables and eat other softwares.

(2) Experiential & Immersive
Travel through time is just a matter-of-time & science. It is not there yet but as a family I never felt it closer as technology has made planning for extended/separate learning and missionary (not the violent sorts) aspirations in distant places possible. Its a total reset of conventions.

(3) Personalized (and transparent)
The tech company i'm in (partly China funded) radically downsized by 70% (reversed fusion into 2 companies) and roles/teams/mindset are reframed to how each person's best ability to serve future clients is now the new normal. Gone is my immersive tech team of 11, its BD focus for me, but they can be activated at a moment's notice regardless of which company they work for. Politics are off the table while disruptions are on it.

Future is deib and deep indeed it is!