In February 2016 I organized a workshop on the Saudi Vision 2030 and delivered a motivational presentation to prepare the minds of the participants. It is now time to post it as a tribute to Hans Rosling, who passed away in 2017 and has been inspirational for this work. Take the quiz without cheating and assess your own knowledge by checking the answers at the end of the presentation. How good do you comprehend the world in which we are living today?
2. Agenda
• Introduction
• Population Quiz
• The World is (pick one):
• turning really ugly
• getting worse
• not evolving at all
• improving
• becoming a wonderful place where to live
• VISION 2030 Intro
• Group Exercise
• VISION 2030 Review and Analysis
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3. Assess Your Knowledge
First Review the Following Quiz (10 Questions) and
score your results.
The Answers are provided at the end of this
presentation.
4. POPULATION QUIZ 1/10
In 1950 there were fewer than 1 billion children
(aged 0-14) worldwide; by 2000 this figure increased
to almost 2 billion. How many children does the UN
estimate there will be by 2100?
a) 2 billion
b) 3 billion
c) 4 billion
5. POPULATION QUIZ 2/10
There are 7 billion people in the world. How does the
population break down?
a) Americas 1 / Europe 1 / Africa 1 / Asia 4
b) Americas 2 / Europe 1 / Africa 1 / Asia 3
c) Americas 1 / Europe 1 / Africa 2 / Asia 3
6. POPULATION QUIZ 3/10
The life expectancy at birth in the UK is 81 years.
What is the average life expectancy at birth of the
world’s population?
a) 50 years
b) 60 years
c) 70 years
8. POPULATION QUIZ 5/10
Globally, men aged 25-34 have spent eight years at
school on average. How many years have women of
the same age group spent in school?
a) 3 years
b) 5 years
c) 7 years
9. POPULATION QUIZ 6/10
6. Roughly what percentage of the girls in the world
attend primary school (first 4-6 years of school)?
a) 50
b) 60
c) 70
d) 80
e) 90
10. POPULATION QUIZ 7/10
Roughly what percentage of the world's one-year-old
children is vaccinated against measles?
a) 10
b) 20
c) 30
d) 40gave you the points if you rounded up or
down.
e) 50
f) 60
g) 70
h) 80
i) 90
11. POPULATION QUIZ 8/10
Roughly what percentage of the world’s population
has electricity at home?
a) 10
b) 20
c) 30
d) 40gave you the points if you rounded up or
down.
e) 50
f) 60
g) 70
h) 80
i) 90
12. POPULATION QUIZ 9/10
In 1970 more than 2.2 billion people lived in extreme
poverty. How did this number change until today?
a) It has increased by 1 more billion.
b) It has remained more or less the same.
c) It has been reduced by two third.
13. POPULATION QUIZ 10/10
The GCC countries (Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar,
Saudi Arabia, UAE) belong today to the wealthiest
countries of the world. In 1965 the average number
of babies per woman was above 7. What is it today?
a. 6
b. 5
c. 4
d. 3
e. Below 2.5
19. We pay 10 times more attention to
negative news than to positive news
Spot something here?
20. Historical Pessimism:
Thomas Malthus, 1779
“The power of
population is so
superior to the
power of the earth
to produce
subsistence for man,
that premature
death must in
some shape or other
visit the human race.”
US corn production
21. Historical Pessimism:
Karl Marx, 1886
“Unable to
expand and
generate
profits at past
levels, the
capitalist
system would
begin to
consume the
structures that
sustained it.”
22. Historical pessimist quotes
1870: The electric light has no future - J.H. Pepper
1976: Telephone has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered
as a means of communication – Western Union internal memo
1895: Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible - Lord Kelvin
1903: The horse is here to stay but the automobile is only a novelty, a fad
- H. Rackham
1936: A rocket will never be able to leave the earth's atmosphere - NYT
1943: I think there is a world market for maybe five computers - T. Watson, IBM
1959: The world potential market for copying machines is 5000 at most – IBM
1981: 640 kb of memory ought to be enough for anybody – B. Gates, Microsoft.
2007/10: Oil production has likely already reached its peak in 2006
- S. Al Husseini, Former Saudi Aramco CEO
2015/12: 94% of cars on the road will still be powered by oil-based fuels in 2040
- OPEC
31. The best way to
predict the future
is to create it.
Peter Drucker
The future is
better than you
think.
Peter Diamantis
Aim to be 10
times better
Google Innovation
Principle 3. from 9.
32. Technology Megatrends
Artificial &
Machine
Intelligence /
Big data
analytics
Bio-
technologies
& Genomics /
Life extension
Smart
manufacturing,
Additive
technologies
Advanced
materials,
nano-
technology,
graphene
Mobile internet
/ Connected
devices /
Swarm
intelligence
Augmented
reality, Virtual
reality and
Gaming
Renewable
energy, smart
grid, energy
storage, LEDs
Mobility,
Autonomous
vehicles,
electric cars
Unmanned
vehicles &
devices,
drones
Blockchain
Perfect
knowledge
Sharing
economy
Networks, the
Internet of
Things, Sensors
& Actuators
Cloud
technology &
Computing
Emergence of
commercial
space
exploration &
colonization
38. 5/10: Between 1970 & 2009, Years
Spent in School by Women Aged
25-34 Increased from 3.5 to 7.1
Gender Ratio F/M for Mean Years
of Schooling All Levels (Age 15-64)
39. 6/10: 91% of Girls in the World
Attend Primary School
40. 7/10: Ca. 85% of Children are
Vaccinated against Measle
Welcome everybody and thank you for joining today.The purpose of this meeting is to review an evaluation of the VISION 2030 that we have done in order to align the delovelopment of the Saudi Aramco’s downstream business with the objective of the VISION.
Our workshop today is a kind of warming-up exercise before repeating it with other departments such as NBD, CP and R&D.
In order to be able to determine the future we need to be able to understand the present, where we are coming from, and where we are heading to.To test your understanding of the present I am proposing to start with a population quiz.
After reviewing the conclusions of the quiz, we will try to comprehend how the world is actually doing.Is it turning really ugly, maybe getting worse, staying the same, improving, or perhaps becoming a wonderfull place to live in.Make your choice… I will give you the answer.
It will follow with a short introduction about the VISION 2030 and from there, before presenting my own conclusions, would like to involve you in a group exercise.
The 1st hour more or less is intended to bring you in a positive mood with the kind of mindset that is required to stimulate your creative thinking.
a) is correct
a) is correct
Is correct
There has been a 10-year rise in life expectancy in the past 50 years.
c) is correct.
c) is correct
Between 1970 and 2009, the number increased from 3.5 to 7.1 years.
e) is correct.
90%. The number of children who never have the benefits of primary education fell steadily between 2000 and 2007. The proportion has continued to fall since then, but much more slowly. In 2014, the out-of-school rate was 9%.
h) or i) are correct.
The World Health Organization calculates that about 85% of children have been vaccinated against measles.
h) or i) are correct.
Again, nearly 85% of homes have electricity worldwide.We gave you the points if you rounded up or down.
c) is correct.
e) is correct.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/two-takes-depression/201106/if-it-bleeds-it-leads-understanding-fear-based-media
CNN: The Crisis News Network
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/wired-success/201411/why-we-love-bad-news-more-good-news
Most news we see and hear is negative, and replete with disasters, terrorism, crime, scandals and corruption, social conflicts, plagues, cataclysms, catastrophs, accidents, threats of all kind such as from overpopulation, climate change, technology, or even political turmoil.
Media studies show that bad news far outweighs good news by as much as seventeen negative news reports for every one good news report.
http://www.spectator.co.uk/2016/08/why-cant-we-see-that-were-living-in-a-golden-age/The larger a community the highest the frequency of dramatic and negative incidents, and most of us are watching international news.
Profound anxiety results from following the daily news because of its predominant focus on negativity.
http://www.spectator.co.uk/2016/08/why-cant-we-see-that-were-living-in-a-golden-age/Our brains evolved in a hunter-gatherer environment where anything novel or dramatic had to be attended to immediately for survival. So while we no longer defend ourselves against saber-toothed tigers, our brains have not caught up.We’ve evolved to be suspicious and fretful: fear and worry are tools for survival.
The hunters and gatherers who survived sudden storms and predators were the ones who had a tendency to scan the horizon for new threats, rather than sit back and enjoy the view.
http://www.abundance360summit.com/podcast/2015/09/03/episode-8-negativity-bias-why-we-pay-attention-to-bad-news/
Decoupling of US corn production from area farmed. Data source: US Census Bureau (1975, 2012).
Source: Nature rebounds, 2016
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2016/02/22/a-stunning-hockey-stick-how-access-to-energy-brought-humanity-forward/
Multiplier technologies:
printing press: information sharing
Steam engine: freeing humans from the need of manpowered activities
www: multiplication of information storage and communications via digitilisation
http://aiimpacts.org/trends-in-the-cost-of-computing/
The “cost per GFLOPS” is the cost for a set of hardware that would theoretically operate at one billion floating-point operations per second
http://www.hamiltonproject.org/charts/cost_of_computing_power_equal_to_an_ipad2
The iPad2 has computing power equal to 1,600 million instructions per second (MIPS).Each data point represents the cost of 1,600 MIPS of computing power based on the power and price of a specific computing device released that year.
Reduction by 1 Trilllion in a 60 years time span
http://diamandis.com/data
https://singularityhub.com/2016/06/27/why-the-world-is-better-than-you-think-in-10-powerful-charts/
The world is a wonderful place to live in and there has never been a better time to be alive.
The number of children in the world is no longer increasing.
The number of children in the world is no longer increasing.
4 Billion people in Asia
c) is correct
There has been a 10-year rise in life expectancy in the past 50 years.
https://ourworldindata.org/life-expectancy/
https://ourworldindata.org/literacy/
Between 1970 and 2009, the number increased from 3.5 to 7.1 years.https://ourworldindata.org/global-rise-of-education
90%. The number of children who never have the benefits of primary education fell steadily between 2000 and 2007. The proportion has continued to fall since then, but much more slowly. In 2014, the out-of-school rate was 9%.
http://humanprogress.org/blog/20-graphs-to-celebrate-womens-progress-around-the-world?utm_content=buffera69d5&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer
The World Health Organization calculates that about 85% of children have been vaccinated against measles.
https://ourworldindata.org/vaccination/
Again, nearly 85% of homes have electricity worldwide.We gave you the points if you rounded up or down.
http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/EG.ELC.ACCS.ZS?end=2012&start=1990&view=chart
According to the most recent estimates, 10% of the world’s population lives on less than US$1.90 per day, down from 35% in 1990.
https://ourworldindata.org/global-rise-of-education