Welcome to the future! 6D world by Pavel Kysilka
Prague held a unique and breathtaking event: conference and festival for futurist and people who are not afraid of change and want to face it prepared. Our world is going to change on a massive scale, and it’s going to happen very fast. It is an opportunity for everyone to take part on an exciting way to abundance.
These are only a few but from my point of view most important takeaways from the festival.
Pavel Kysilka, Economist, and founder of 6D Academy started the conference with a fascinating introduction to the exponential technologies.
Imagine these incredible people who were a part of the agricultural age. If you take somebody, who lived 12000 years ago and teleport them into the year 1700. At first they would be surprised about what they see, but after a while, they would understand.
Do the same with the people from 1900, a generation of industrial revolution. If they woke up in 1980, they would be shocked. But after a while, they would understand what was happening around them.
Then imagine several people who lived in 60s and 70s at the end of the industrial age. These amazing people would be shocked, confused and after a while, they would not understand what we are doing here in 2018.
Pavel’s talk reminds me of a great story about Otis Johnson. A man who went to jail at the age of 25 in 1975. When he got out in 2017 at the age 69, he entered a world that was way different from the one he remembered.
How would you describe our world to people like Otis? You would need these six words:
- Digital
- Dematerialized
- Demonetized
- Democratized
- Deceptive
- Disruptive
We moved our communication, education, entertainment, shopping, part of our social life to the digital world. We communicate and control this environment with our digital devices which can look like smartphones or PCs and next year it seems like everything will shift to glasses with augmented reality and voice control.
Dematerialized
Why did we move to the digital world? Because it is dematerialized, it exists in our minds. We do not need to waste trees anymore, and the whole library is still in your pocket. You don’t need to travel to see someone when you can make video calls.
Demonetized
Our civilization gathered an enormous amount of knowledge which is “free.” For most of the features our shared network offers us, we don’t have to pay by money. Data of all the users drive the system. A digital footprint of people is monetized and gives fuel to the ecosystem.
Democratized
What all exponential technologies have in common is that all became democratized. Google’s Project Loon or Internet.org project by Facebook are going to connect the rest of the world to the network.
All the features and knowledge on the internet will be available to everybody. Do you need proof? See Project Empathy that brings education and connect the students with zero access to the Internet using satellites.
Deceptive
Autonomous cars, solar roofs or Hyperloop all of these may sound like a crazy ideas. But any of the great ideas that changed our lives were initially dismissed or ridiculed. In 1980 experts of McKinsey predicted 900.000 cell phone penetration in the US by 2000. The actual number was 109 million. Technologies and crazy ideas can deceive us, and we can not predict their impact well.
Disruptive
Everybody knows the story how Uber is disrupting the taxi business, but not everybody knows that Uber is working on self-disruption. When you are reading this article Uber’s self-driving cars are now picking up passengers in Arizona. And how would you explain disruption to people from 80s?
Pavel Kysilka continued the presentation with an interesting chart of exponential technologies. He mentioned 20 most significant and crucial innovation of the 20th and 21st century. His point was that our 6D world is exponential and this exponential age needs exponential knowledge and attitude.
Thanks to people who attended the first year of Future Port Prague Conference, you made a significant milestone in the path to singularity.
