Encouraging Collaboration in the Digital Future - C-Tribe Media and Influencer Launch Panel

It Takes A C-Tribe Village

Preface: The fourth industrial revolution is blurring the lines between physical, digital, and biological spheres. This complex transformation is changing the way we do many things, it is shifting the power dynamics, and requiring that more transparency be shared by our leaders and influencers. What are the steps needed to allow all sides to elicit trust between one another? How can we encourage more collaboration between individuals, public and private sectors and other convening powers to address key challenges and opportunities relevant to our local, national and international communities?

Panelists:

Marc Beckles - Sr. Director, Youth Strategy & Innovation, RBC
Robert Tyndale - Founder, Version Me Media
Tom Sides - Technology Partner, Dentons

Interviewer: Mack Male - Co-Founder, Taproot Edmonton
Show notes:
Mack Male: The first industrial revolution was around the late 1700s and was really centred around mechanization and the steam engine. The 2nd industrial revolution was a century later in the late 1800s and was characterized around mass production and electricity. The 3rd industrial revolution was in the 1960s which we’re still in, somewhat, and was centred around the semiconductor, personal computing, and the internet. The 4th industrial revolution is really characterized by nanotechnology, the Internet of Things, biotechnology, artificial intelligence etch.

One of the most central ideas to the 4IR is the speed of change and the amount that has happened in such a short period of time. Ray Kurzweil argues that technology change is actually exponential. This is really important because humans are terrible at understanding exponential change. We generally overestimate what we can do in a short period of time and underestimate what we can do in the long-term.
We’re pretty ill-equipped to deal with the type of change we’re seeing now in this 4IR.

Here’s a quote from a critic of all the technological change going on, Andrew Keen, who has written multiple books on this topic. He says “everything is getting perpetually upgraded, except us. What it means to the human today is bound up in network technology particularly thinking machines. If there is to be a new renaissance, this relationship with smart tech will be the core of its new humanizm.

I thought that was really important to frame this conversation about collaboration because you need humans to collaborate. What if there are no human jobs to do so?