TED 2023 met Peter Weyland

Een TED talk uit de toekomst, hoe is dat mogelijk? Indus­trieel Peter Wey­land spreekt op TED in het jaar 2023 over zijn passie voor en nakende door­brak­en in de robot­i­ca.

https://youtu.be/dQpGwnN3dfc

Peter Wey­land has been a mag­net for con­tro­ver­sy since he announced his intent to build the first con­vinc­ing­ly humanoid robot­ic sys­tem by the end of the decade.

Our first true piece of tech­nol­o­gy. Fire. 100,000 BC – Stone tools. 4,000 BC – The wheel. 9th Cen­tu­ry AD – Gun pow­der. Bit of a game chang­er that one. 19th Cen­tu­ry – Eure­ka! The light bulb! 20th Cen­tu­ry – The auto­mo­bile, tele­vi­sion, nuclear weapons, space craft, inter­net. 21st Cen­tu­ry – BioTech, Nan­oTech, fusion and fis­sion and M The­o­ry.

And that was just the first decade! We are now three months into the year of our Lord, 2023. At this moment in our civil­i­sa­tion we can cre­ate cyber­net­ic indi­vid­u­als who, in just a few short years, will be com­plete­ly indis­tin­guish­able from us. Which leads to an obvi­ous con­clu­sion: we are the Gods now.

For those of you who know me you will be aware by now that my ambi­tion is unlim­it­ed. You know that I will set­tle for noth­ing short of great­ness or I will die try­ing. For those of you who do not yet know me, allow me to intro­duce myself. My name is Peter Wey­land. And if you’ll indulge me, I’d like to change the world.

Deze fic­tieve pre­sen­tatie maakt deel uit van een pro­motiecam­pagne voor Rid­ley Scott’s nieuw­ste film Prometheus, een pre­quel voor de klassiek­er Alien, die op 30 mei bij ons in de zalen ver­schi­jnt. Laat ik alvast proberen een plaat­sje te reserveren. :)