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Four technological developments as a stimulus for new, high-quality productive forces: Kevin Kelly


Four technological developments as a stimulus for new, high-quality productive forces: Kevin Kelly

(Xinhua) 11:07, 26 August 2024

Four technological developments as a stimulus for new, high-quality productive forces: Kevin Kelly

A drone photo taken on Aug. 20, 2024 shows a view of the Sun Island scenic spot in the Taiyangdao (Sun Island) National Wetland in Harbin, northeast China’s Heilongjiang Province. (Xinhua/Wang Song)

HARBIN, Aug. 26 (Xinhua) — Developments in energy networks, robotic tasks, real-time language translation and accelerated innovation will jointly foster new high-quality productive forces, said Kevin Kelly, founder and editor-in-chief of U.S. magazine Wired, in a forum of the 2024 Sun Island Annual Conference for Entrepreneurs that concluded on Saturday.

The conference was held under the motto “New High-Quality Productive Forces: New Industries, New Models, New Dynamics” and took place in Harbin in the northeastern Chinese province of Heilongjiang.

At the main forum, Kelly shared his views on new high-quality productive forces via video and predicted future changes in human life.

Kelly said renewable and evenly distributed energy sources such as solar and wind power could provide local energy production and what he called “energy grids.”

Such decentralized energy sources would free humanity from dependence on finite resources such as oil or uranium and enable future productivity increases, he added.

The second tipping point is robotic tasks, Kelly noted. He went on to explain that this means that most human work will be broken down into different tasks, many of which will be done by robots and artificial intelligence (AI), while humans will be freed up to focus on more valuable and truly desired work.

“You won’t lose your job. You’ll just have new responsibilities,” Kelly said, adding that this technological development will create many new jobs and opportunities that didn’t exist before.

The renowned Internet expert also envisioned that real-time translation would connect talent and economy worldwide in a way never seen before, thus promoting the vitality of new, high-quality productive forces. He is impressed by the real-time translation devices and applications being developed by Chinese companies such as iFLYTEK.

Kelly stressed that the rapid emergence of innovation is another driver of new, high-value productive forces, made possible by the development of online video platforms that allow people to learn and share without industry barriers.

Technologies such as virtual reality, 3D experiences and AI-powered learning will be integrated into these platforms and produce many more well-trained innovators, he revealed.

However, Kelly also made it clear that the widespread introduction of technological breakthroughs takes time and that these four trends will therefore be the sources of new, high-quality productive forces over a longer period of time.

(Web editor: Zhang Kaiwei, Liang Jun)

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