Shots of Awes Jason Silva Takes to the Stage on Day Three of the Knowledge Summit 2016
Dubai, December 7, 2016-- "Technology is the human mind turned inside out," claimed Media Artist and TELEVISION Personality Jason Silva in an energetic presentation he gave on day three of the Knowledge Summit 2016, arranged by the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Foundation(MBRF) on December 5-7, 2016, at the Grand Hyatt Dubai.
Bearing the theme "Knowledge ... Present and Future", the three-day Summit is held under the patronage of H.H. Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, along with under the instructions of H.H. Sheikh Ahmed bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Chairman of MBRF. The Summit combines prominent ministers, executives, and intellectuals to discuss ways to boost the production and dissemination of knowledge.
The "specialist in brain games" talked in detail about the quick and impressive technological advances happening all around us. "In the past, people could not witness the world change within their life expectancies," Silva kept in mind, "yet today, we can see the world modification prior to us. Change is now rapid; the smartphone we carry in our pockets today is one million times less expensive and one million times smaller sized compared to a supercomputer that occupied half a structure 40 years earlier, yet it is also 1,000 times extra powerful."
If you take 30 linear steps, Silva added as he described the idea of rapid development, you would relocate 30 steps forward. If you take 30 exponential steps, nevertheless, you would relocate one billion steps forward.
" Exponential disruptions, with the right point of view, are rapid chances," he notes. "The rate at which we could reprogram our genomes is establishing three times faster compared to rapid ... This implies we can craft the end of suffering."
In May 2013, Silva launched "Shots of Awe", a YouTube network on the Exploration Digital Networks TestTube, offering once a week "micro-documentaries" on imagination, innovation, exponential technology, futurism, metaphysics, existentialism and the human condition. Additionally, Silva revealed during his session at the Knowledge Summit-- that included screenings of some of his most preferred videos-- that he will certainly begin shooting a new TV Series with National Geographic titled "Origins", which discovers knowledge and intellectual accomplishments that changed human life.
