During a dialogue session with Michio Kaku about the features and opportunities of the future for the coming decades

Al Gergawi: Mohammed bin Rashid's vision is based on Dubai being a global laboratory open to innovative ideas and applications

• Al Gergawi during the “Why Design the Future” session, which was held at the Museum of the Future, in the presence of a group of future experts and designers.

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The Minister of Cabinet Affairs, Vice Chairman of the Board of Trustees, and Managing Director of the Dubai Future Foundation, Mohammed Abdullah Al Gergawi, and the global expert in future foresight and theoretical physics Michio Kaku reviewed the features, prospects and design of the future, during a main panel discussion entitled “Why do we design the future?”, as part of the activities of the first day. Dubai Forum for the Future.

During the session, which was held at the Museum of the Future, in the presence of a group of experts and future designers, Al Gergawi stressed the importance and role of governments in designing and foreseeing the future, stressing that the UAE has become one of the pioneers in this field, and even precedes many in it, with the vision of its leadership and thought, which is always looking forward to the future and its design, but rather and implement it from now on.

He said, "Our meeting at the Dubai Future Forum today represents a step in a series of steps through which we can develop ideas and design new visions and policies that keep pace with the developments of the times and prepare for changes in the future."

Al Gergawi said: "Mohammed bin Rashid's thought and vision are based on Dubai being a global laboratory open to innovative ideas and applications. Today, we have a museum for the future, which represents a scientific, intellectual and cultural beacon for all. It embraces all minds and ideas in one place to imagine, design and implement the future."

He added: "We are a young country and our journey has moved from the desert to Mars. We have a distinguished development model that we share with the world to improve and change for the better. We also have in the UAE all races and religions and 200 nationalities living together in harmony and harmony."

He said: "We are still in the first moments of a future that will bring boundless changes, and the first factor in that is the tremendous technological progress that will accelerate greatly in the coming years, and keeping pace with it will be a complex and not easy task."

Michio Kaku, in turn, reviewed some expected future scenarios after 50 years, saying: “Computers will disappear, we will have chips embedded in our brain, we will communicate with thoughts, we will record memory and feelings, the television will disappear and we will have the Internet of the brain.

We will have a quantum computer instead of a digital computer.”

He stressed that the future holds many pleasant surprises for humanity, most notably that no person will die of cancer, and that human communication with the computer will increase significantly.

Kaku explained that due to the great technological development, humans have the ability to predict the incidence of 50 types of cancer, before they occur, with a period of time ranging from 5 to 10 years, and then prepare for them with appropriate measures, which make the impact of the disease at its lowest levels, without deaths due to it.

He pointed out that the next 50 years will witness a great connection between the human mind and the computer, and the emergence of what is known as the digital human mind, where the person will be able to control and move things through mental communication, only that will be done through the link between him and the computer.

On the possibility of the future witnessing a reversal of human civilization, Kaku stressed that as long as there are nuclear weapons, manufactured microbes, and global warming, civilization can go back, but the course of history will always remain forward.

He expected that the current century would witness receiving signals from more intelligent and advanced civilizations from outside the globe, which would be the first contact of humanity with a more advanced civilization. 

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