How to survive the anti-jobs future | Jack Sim | TEDxBencoolen St Youth
For centuries, knowledge was power. The arbitrage between those who know and those who don't, would determine their destiny.Education is an opportunity for people to move up the prosperity ladder. But our current rote learning mode is becoming relatively obsolete in the era of AI, AGI and eventually, BCI (brain-computer integration).Since humans can't become better robots, our only chance of survival is to be better humans to prevail over the robots.Come and listen to how Gumption is now the most essential survival skills that our school did not teach you. Jack Sim, widely known as "Mr. Toilet", founded the World Toilet Organization (WTO), a global non-profit working towards a world with clean, safe toilets and sanitation for everyone, everywhere, at all times. Born in a slum in Singapore in 1957, he learned entrepreneurship and gumption from his uneducated mother who started a series of small businesses.From school failure, he became a serial commercial businessman. After attaining financial independence he left the rat-race to become a social entrepreneur. He enrolled at Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy and graduated with a Master’s in Public Administration at the age of 56. He also graduated at Singularity University’s Global Solutions Program at age fifty-nine. He received a Queen Elizabeth’s Points of Light Award, Clinton Global Initiatives Fellow and was named Time Magazine’s Heroes of the Environment for 2008. In 2022, he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Strathclyde for his contributions to humanity. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx
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