Disruptive Tech Keynote: Capgemini Nordic | Thomas Anglero

Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, consultants of all ages, to the first ever Combative Future of Technology Rumble in the Jungle fight to the death boxing match. Coming down the center aisle, the current reigning CTO, Chief Technical Officer for IBM Norway, with 32 years of Big Blue experience, originally from the Holland, Luc, the Flying Dutchman, Reddenberg. Coming down the aisle, the current Director of Innovation, with With 2 years of big blue experience, originally from the ghettos of New York City, Thomas I own this swipe right on Tinder Anglero. Gentlemen, I want a dirty fight. I want only the best ideas and technology. Kicking below the belt is allowed in this match. Here are the rules. Each fighter will get one technology to discuss and prove his knowledge and manhood to all the amazing Capgemini consultants in the audience today.

No contest.

Each technology will be displayed on screen.

Oh man.

The first punch will be thrown by Luke. Luke, your first technology is quantum computing.

Thomas, do you like me? Yes or no?

Maybe.

You see what just happened? First thing was entanglement. Second thing was superposition. We're talking about qubits and the special characteristics of a quantum computer. The special characteristics, especially superposition, makes that a qubit, rather than a bit, which is 1 and 0, can actually have 1 and 0 at the same time. That means that a qubit can calculate two things at the same time. The more qubits you put on, it's the more calculations you can get. And this technology makes that once you have around 150 qubits, you have a computer which is stronger or faster than the largest supercomputer in the world today. So those who know "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy," Deep thought. Supercomputer asked, "What's the meaning of life?" Took millions of years to answer that question. Obviously, with a quantum computer, it takes a nanosecond to come to 42. But jokes aside, this technology is very important because we want to model molecules. And IBM just announced last week that we were able to model the largest or the heaviest molecule yet, and this gives a lot of promise to new drug futures. So when we have a full-blown quantum computer, let's say 500 qubits or even 1,000 qubits, then maybe we can model the whole human body and change healthcare forever.

Okay, Luke, that was impressive. But now let's see what Thomas has for you.

Thomas?

Your technology is virtual reality.

Mm-hmm.

He's going to need to be some virtual reality when I'm done with him. Ladies and gentlemen— oh, God, I can't wait to hit him. I was in the store in New York the other day, just like El Shop, left stall. And the most salesman said to me, he said, "Hey, you, cute guy." I was like, "Yeah, that's got to be me." So I come up to him, and he says, "Put on this virtual reality headset." "Hey, now I'm a macho, good-looking guy, ain't I?" Feed the ego, let's go! So I put on the virtual reality headset, and he says, "I'm gonna take you to another world." So I put on the headset, and instantly I was transported to the bottom of the ocean in an abandoned ship. I was underwater, and there were little fishies swimming all around me, and I was reaching out and grabbing them. And he said, "Turn around." So I turn around, and there's a gigantic whale staring dead at my face. It was real. And what do you think a man did when you're looking directly at the face of a whale? I ran like a little baby. And I forgot I was in an electronics store, so I ran over every item in the damn store. Cameras are flying, bags are flying. Ladies and gentlemen, let me tell you something. A macho man like myself, I would never think that virtual reality could scare the hell out of me. It was real, and to this day, I deny I was ever in that store. Thank you very much.

Okay, Thomas, that was very smooth. Luc, your next technology is brain-computer interface.

Brain-computer interface.

Here we go.

BCI for short. Okay, I'll take it. Brain computer interface. What is that? It's actually something quite amazing. It's a nano mesh created with nanotechnology which is implanted through a little needle in the brain and encapsulates the brain and attaches it to the brain. It can read chemicals, and the electric signals that are going through the brain. And what they're going to use it for is actually trying to solve Alzheimer's or Parkinson's disease by controlling the waves and the chemical emissions within the brain using that mesh. Elon Musk has announced that he's very afraid of AI. He feels that— and he started this company, Neuralink, because he thinks that we need this neural mesh within our heads to be able to combat AI that becomes all-powerful in a couple decades. And we don't stand a chance if we don't have that type of technology in our brains. But not only that, we can solve those kinds of issues with mental health. But actually they are on Wi-Fi, so they have connection to the internet. So with that type of technology, basically we can all be connected to the internet and talk to each other without having to speak, like my children are doing now with Snapchat. So it's Facebook of the 21st century.

Nice look, Thomas Anglero. That's real technology, Thomas. Your next technology is 4D printing.

He's a CTO at IBM, but he's not on Facebook.

Shh!

4D printing! Who's heard of 3D printing?

Say yeah!

Yeah! No!

Ladies and gentlemen, do you know what 4D printing is? The most exciting thing there is. 3D printing? Boring. 4D printing is now. 4D printing is when you take a computer that's able to think of millions, hundreds of millions of different simulations at a time, and connect it to the 3D printer. So it wants to make an object. It thinks of 100 million different computations of what it could be. It sends it to the 3D printer. It prints it out. It looks at the final object. The algorithm looks at the final object and says, "Not good enough." It destroys it. It puts it back into the printer. It says, "I learned from this." It does 100 million different computations. And prints out another one. And the iteration repeats and repeats and repeats. Today with 3D printing, you suave Capgemini consultants are very proud of what the printer prints out. That's one computation. That's one derivation. An algorithm's thinking hundreds of millions of derivations. Ladies and gentlemen, 3D printing's not cool. It's all about 4D.

Thank you very much. Bring it, baby, bring it. Nice, Thomas. Look, your next technology is smart dust.

Smart dust.

Oh yeah.

What the heck is that? Okay. You think there's one camera in the room here? Taking video of these stupid guys here on stage.

Uh, excuse me?

But maybe, there's a lot of video cameras here in the room without you knowing it. Because with this smart dust stuff, there's research going on all over the world in miniaturizing and miniaturizing sensors and even cameras. They're using the non-so-cool 3D printing actually to print cameras. Small lenses by the size of a grain of salt. And the term "smart dust" comes from that you can create a lot of them and basically throw them around without you knowing it, and they can take and record video, record heat, electricity, magnetism, chemical compounds, what is— as sensor technology around the whole city. That's the future. I think Bjørn Eidegård doesn't know what hits him when that comes around.

Okay, enough, Luc. Thomas, your last technology is human augmentation.

Ah, hahaha.

Now I'm a Tinder guy, and when I hear the word human augmentation, you know what I'm thinking about, right? All the guys understand, women are going, "I hope he's serious." Okay, here we go.

He needs it.

He need—

You know, you were supposed to keep that to yourself.

Oh, sorry. I saw him undress just now when he took on his shorts.

Yeah, it took a long time to watch me, I'm sure. Hey, ladies and gentlemen.

Yeah, baby!

That was below the belt.

If you see us on the line at NAV next week, you know why. Human augmentation. I saw a video this morning in preparation for this conference and it touched me. There's a gentleman in Australia. He lost his arm right here at the elbow when he was young. And he was given a prosthetic to replace his hand. It weighed about 5 or 10 kilos and it had a hook that he had a screw to grab onto something, and then when he wanted to let it go, he had to unscrew it. It was ridiculous. So he used a 3D printer, and he started making arms. Because of the goodness of his heart, he uploaded all his information to the internet. Today there are tens of thousands of kids that have arms printed with 3D printers for 150 kronor. Thousands of pictures of little children. And the way it works is when your arm is straight, the hand is open. Soon as the kids lift the arm, the hand closes. Open, close. 150 kroner, people have the ability to be people, feel dignity, give a proper hug. Human augmentation is not the future, ladies and gentlemen. It's necessary. Thank you very much.

Okay, enough, gentlemen. This fight is too close to call. Ladies and gentlemen, who do you think won this fight? IBM CTO Luke the Flying Dutchman Redenburg?

Yeah!

IBM's Director of Innovation Thomas I Only Swipe Right on Tinder Anglero?

Tinder! Tinder!

Tinder! The correct answer is you. All these technologies are coming if you like it or not. The future shall be disruptive, and we, Capgemini, will be prepared to meet these challenges and exceed our customers' expectations from us. If you want to hear more from IBM, Thomas Anglero will be speaking at 3 o'clock in the breakout session about innovation and artificial intelligence.

With some clothes.

Luke and Thomas Anglero, thank you very much.