Keynote: From Coal to AI. From AI to Coal.
How the Future Shapes Our Lives – and How We Shape the Future. The Great Transformation: From Industrialization to Digitality. From AI to Living Intelligence. 🔥 Coal – the fuel of industrialization.🧠 AI – the driving force of digitality.💶 Coal – as a synonym for money. These three terms stand at the heart of our economic and societal evolution. They illustrate how technology shaped our lives during industrialization, how we adapted – and in many cases invented – entire social structures around it, and how we can now use new technologies to build a better future in the digital era. 🌍 But we are at the dawn of a new era – transitioning from industrialization to digitality.This is a radical shift that we often underestimate because we remain attached to old structures. But the potential is enormous – if we realize that we no longer need to think in global-industrial frameworks, but rather in local, networked opportunities. Too often, we make the mistake of equating technology with innovation. But innovation also exists in society, structures, processes, and in our daily lives. To better understand the different opportunities for shaping the future, we have divided …