Dubai's Reversed Wave - Towards a Multipolar Knowledge World

UAE, January 18, 2017 - The invention of the alphabet by the Phoenicians 3,000 years back had led to the conservation and buildup of human knowledge. Building on this regional heritage, the Arabic/Islamic world added significantly to the advancement of scientific research on a global scale, as the waves of knowledge continued to spread from the Arab region towards the rest of the world for hundreds of years. This energy, however, at some point stagnated and after that moved in the opposite instructions, spreading out from west to eastern and from north to south, in the direction of the rest of the world.

What defines the 21st century, nevertheless, is the shrinking of time between the surge of a wave and its steady arrival to the remainder of the world, due to the considerable innovations seen by the communications sector.

The German Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing machine around 1440, which produced the necessary framework for the propagation of knowledge on a broad range. Yet this industry did not reach the Arab world till 1702, when the Dabaas Printing machine was developed in the city of Aleppo. With a simple estimation we find that this wave took control of 262 years to get to the Arab world.

In 1928 the first television broadcast was launched in New york City, however it took around 26 years before the first Arabic channel, "Baghdad Television", showed up in 1954. By 1989, industrial Internet services became available in the United States; it took around 6 years for the solutions to end up being readily available in the Arab world, led by the UAE in 1995.

Today, some Arab nations have been keeping pace with global innovation, as drone airplanes (unmanned mini-aircrafts directed by remote control or onboard computers), self-driving vehicles, the Internet of points (IoT), and 3D printing for construction and human parts are being evaluated in Dubai, at the very same time as they are being examined in the United States. Hence, the time difference in between the rise of a new technological wave in the established world and its arrival in some Arab nations is starting to go away.

The second half of the 20th century had actually witnessed the end of polarized knowledge represented by Europe-America, with the rise of knowledge facilities in lots of other countries such as Japan, China, South Korea and India. By researching the technological transformation experienced throughout the world, it is clear that the 21st century is verifying the idea of a world with numerous poles of knowledge.

Today, as modern western human being remains to securely espouse the knowledge economic climate, the adage "learning is a lifelong procedure" becomes its committed motto. The saying, however, is deeply rooted in Arabic and Islamic society, as the Arabic thinker Muhammad ibn Abd al-Jabbar al-Niffari mentioned 1,000 years ago: "static knowledge is fixed ignorance" and the Imam Ahmad Ibn Hanbal famously announced 1,200 years ago "look for knowledge from the cradle to the grave". These adages invoke a deeply rooted wish for knowledge historically shared by Arab societies, which had actually once brought about an age of enlightenment under the Abassid Empire in the 9th century. Baghdad after that flourished as one of the leading centers of enlightenment on the planet, and produced some of the most renowned scientists and thinkers of all time, such as Al-Kindi and Al-Khawarizmi.

Baghdad's wise leadership motivated at the time the transfer and creation of knowledge and fostered innovation. Scholars and pioneers grew on charitable monetary benefits and delighted in high standing in culture. The transfer and buildup of knowledge was credited to the translation of magnum opus from numerous languages, such as Greek, Persian and Indian, and translators were paid the weight of their books in gold. Quickly, the facility of the renowned Bayt al-Hikma (Home of Knowledge) made Baghdad the center of scholarship and study in the Islamic world.

The conventional cycle of innovation focuses on 4 pillars: knowledge acquisition, knowledge assimilation, knowledge improvement, and new knowledge creation. Thus, the age of knowledge did not quit at translation tasks yet took place to complete the cycle by the development of new knowledge, decisively confirmed by Al-Khawarizmi's advancement of Algebra, as an example, and al-Kindi's manuscript on Deciphering Cryptographic Messages. The age of enlightenment lived past the Abassid Empire and several researchers, such as Ibn Al Nafis, the discoverer of the blood's pulmonary circulation, prospered.

Today, a new renaissance is arising in some Arab countries. A number of ambitious initiatives have been released by Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, UAE Vice President and Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai One of the most current one, "The UAE Approach for the Future", intends not just to stay on top of the industrialized nations, yet to resume the role played by Baghdad in the ninth century too.

After years of planning and effort, Dubai has actually now developed the framework called for by smart cities. The enthusiastic campaigns released by Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid aim to do even more than that, as it wants to buildings of the future with a variety of tasks, such as Dubai.

Future Accelerators Program, which covers education, health, facilities, transportation, safety and safety, power, modern technology and financial solutions industries. The stated purpose of these initiatives not only revolves around constructing the future of Dubai and the UAE, however also aims to contribute to building the future of the earth through bring in the world's brightest minds and leading talents to join these initiatives.

We hope that Arab and UAE abilities will catch on to this initiative and contribute to constructing an Arabic knowledge pole capable of releasing a new wave of knowledge and spreading it throughout the world.

Will Dubai's ambitious efforts prosper in putting the UAE on the map of a multipolar knowledge world, and will we witness with it a circulation to the rest of the world? The future will not allow us down if we like it.