I have always been passionate about
stars I have always dreamed of being
astronaut
Are there any of you who have
also dreamed of being an astronaut
I am not the only one and I always
wanted to sail in the sky but it was
not a good idea for my mom
who did not like the idea that his son
poses her buttocks on a big matter
explosive just to go in the
stratosphere
so she tried to tell me but is
what you want to spend months
in a national submarine among you
who want to spend months in a sub
sailor has one but it has clearly
less already Thursday but it has nothing to
see mom you understand nothing but also
basically you want to put yourself in a
tin can to breathe air
conditioning separated from a death
certain by a thin layer of
metal it’s exactly the same I’m
realized that she was right
yes moms it’s always right
but the gentleman button ask the
question why why am I
passionate about the stars and
obviously I’m not the only one
in this room but since the dawn of
humanity why are we
look at the stars and to answer
to this question well I am
returned a little in the past near
four billion years in the
past and at that time the earth
finally this place of the universe that a
soup of atoms that went into
star in planet but it’s all there
there is nothing very interesting if this
is just some of these atoms at
chance meetings have formed
molecules and some of its
molecules have enough property
amazing to breed
they will capture the atoms around
from her to make a copy of herself
so that causes the molecules
have to become more and more
complexes to get to do this
exploit and to capture in a way the
more effectively
resources of the planet
but hey that’s all it takes
a lot of time
to scale if you look by
example if you put yourself on the
planet earth will need almost 1
billion years to see the least
difference but however I have
deduce a law that I call the law of
3 it is that we go first to
a stage of competition a stage of
complexification that results
directly from the competition and finally
a collaboration step yes ben
why because these molecules that
are competing with each other
other
in the end will come together to form
cells to form a whole a
nice set of molecules but who will
live together and who herself then
it lasts a very long time but who they
same will enter into competition a
fierce competition
you have cells that are going
develop which will become more complex which
will develop organs that will
develop nuclei that will try
to destroy from phagocyting the others
cell
until the day when this complexification
reaches certain limits and
cells start collaborating on
collaborate to form an organization
multicellular and there I guess
you already have a little understood the
principle ayvelles organisms
multicellular organisms
multicellular to return in
competition it gets more complex
complicates so much that some are going
to become gigantic but yes it’s a
good way not to be eaten
tomorrow serve as a resource for
others it was bigger than all
world is bigger bigger and more powerful
call them dinosaurs
the great particularity of dinosaurs
is that they have become so big
that they had to spend their lives
find resources just for
to survive
paradoxically the complexification has them
made too fragile and they disappeared
so rather than making big
very complex system again the
solution will come from the collaboration
some organizations have collaborated we have
the swarms were going to me that the
herds and in the case of a species
whom I particularly like
is called homo kind we went
seen homo kind will collaborate on a
higher scale thanks to
the invention of language and that’s
awesome because she that language the
homo kind can collaborate with all
people in the same place at the same
moment
we have tribes coming back
compete with each other
of course but it’s wonderful and the
period of similarities that I you
had said he made a billion
of years at the time of the cells
which went down to a few million
of years at the time of the dinosaurs
is good for the homo kind this
similarity period of the senses said
milan because things are going a lot
faster
collaboration accelerates
innovation here is the 10000 1 actually
I do not take them out of my hat too much
if you read an archaeological paper
but when we date a skeleton have date
artifacts usually in tibet
Here that’s old hundred thousand in
has more or less ten or fifteen thousand years
it means that if you take a
prehistoric man you move him
of ten thousand years in his future in his
past they do not see the difference
on the other hand he wanted to bring now
but then he will be a little shocked for
that things change they
evolve anyway much faster
that before they evolve relatively
quickly until a moment when a
invention of the homo genre will not go not
revolutionize history she goes
invent the story
writing writing will bring the
collaboration on a scale
higher
now we can collaborate with a
other human being who is distant from a
thousand kilometers or thousands
of years you have already read platon or
an author who has been dead for centuries
still working with us through
writing
the tribes that were competing
collaborate to form
empires
it’s so blatant that 500 years
only after the appearance of
writing we already find
pyramids something that would not have
been possible
before c
ordinary str but I do not like to say that
writing was invented 5000 years ago
years it looks far like that where 5000
years but I invite you to a fair one
thought experiment imagine that at
side of you lies your mom and
next to her
the mother of his mother your grand mother
and then your great grandmother and
your great grandmother and all your
successive mothers until the invention
of writing
Phew it’s the world, well no it
makes fewer people than you
are in this room 150 200 people
it’s less than an airliner
you could all meetings and
discuss everything with them all your
mothers until the invention of
writing
all that to say that writing comes
to be invented at the scale
geological it is during the invention of
writing the manual paper writing of
one person to another is only one
prototype and 500 years ago this prototype
has been greatly improved thanks to
the printing press which allowed the halls
a person to communicate with
thousands more
so if the writing of 1 1 had allowed
creation in worse and these empires get
base on writing for their
hierarchy through the letters of
nobility was based on writing for
define their truth through the
religion through the laws and the
empires suddenly sees itself suddenly threatened
by the democratization of writing
thanks to the printing press
what if everything a person can
communicate with hundreds of
thousands more ideas spreads
worse the bourgeois can now
print wealth with banknotes
bank
the aristocracy collapses the
religion perish gives way to
the press that will now give
many truth to the people it is
extraordinary
and you will come but we see
still not the relationship with the
stars but what we can see is
that from the invention of writing
people are passionate about stars
all those who raised their hands we do not
have not been alone for 5000 years we
are millions and millions
passionate about the stars and this
printing works is still a
danger for empires such a danger
that the aristocracy is going very quickly
account the king of england decides that
only the guild of printers can
print the books finally only this
that he will have accepted this law again
in use today is called the
copyright it is highly evolved
but it’s a law that was created at
the basis for controlling ideas for
avoid questioning the
system
it worked very well because
that today in england we still have
a royal family in France they
try they are more than even more
extreme the king of France decide that
anyone in possession of a
print shop will be punished with death it works
less well because simply the
printers settles at the border
distribute books and in the end we have
hardly a few generations these ideas
will lead to the French Revolution
and so all that to say that
the evolution of the printing press has
evil empires that gives way to
bourgeois to companies to
multinationals
all because we can now
communicate to several people
but that’s still a step in the
creative process of writing this
which would be ideal is that all the
world can communicate with all the
world
instantly it exists it’s called
Internet
this is the next step in
writing is now internet
allows seven billion people
humans to communicate with seven
billions of human beings
if you send a tweet there now
on twitter or on any
social network potentially 7
billions of people can read it
this lecture is recorded in
video
potentially she could be seen
by seven billion people as I
am not a cat or a singer
nothing there is little chance that
I’m interested in 7 billion people
but potentially yes they can
I can try something a little
more daring but then we have a
opportunity if we go back a bit to
the scale I was explaining there I forgot
say that the period of similarities is
reduced all the more because
now ten years ago nobody
of you do not have apple smartphones
barely got out his first iphone ya
ten years if we have among you who have a
twenty years
I invite them to spend a day
with a phone that dates from their
birth
just to see how much the world has
exchange
Ben, my beautiful 5-year-old daughter
explained that caen – I was a teenager
so I was already big we had
no mobile phone
but hey and how did you know
she must go there and how
how do you exchange messages
the world and evolves so fast that
now we can not do more
to believe we can no longer rely on everything
who made the past one must in
Permanently adapt
it is a good or a bad thing
a way of seeing but if we recover
a little behind if we resume
precisely this acceleration under
the eye of the competition the
complexification the collaboration that is
what can be deduced
and although the empires was a
attempt to collaborate to make
collaborate humans problem it’s
that the empires themselves have entered
in competition have become
dinosaurs the multinationals are a
attempt to have the
humans with the rules of the market with
the commercial rule but again
competition rules
maybe with the internet it’s time
to take the next step to
the stage of collaboration to
planetary scale to use
internet as the nervous system of a
planetary organism of which we
the cells then it’s a dream
I’m not the only one to dream
you have on the screen here the
proposal from a swedish designer oscar
loses 900 to make the first flag
of the earth the flag of humanity
that we are all united under the same
banner and is asking the question but if
internet is the nervous system
what about the consciousness where will be created
the collective consciousness the consciousness
planetary
then there are certainly attempts on
social networks
but social networks belongs to
even to multinationals
they are themselves subject to the
competition maybe they will come
the collective consciousness will come on the
free social networks like mastodon
maybe the collective consciousness
will appear on the bvk chain this
technology that allows today
to exchange information
of exchanged value without any
centralization
maybe that’s the future of me
I believe and it will ask you
question but if we get there
if we collaborate if we have this
collective body
the next step is of course
two new again the cycle is
to compete but with whom
with other planetary intelligences
that’s why we’re watching
stars
simply because we do not
are that cells in
the evolution of life because life
want to compete with
the other planets and then maybe
to collaborate to form a
galactic intelligence
we have no choice we look
the stars because we know that at
deeper of us that’s where
we have to go
the Russian engineer konstantin
tsiolkovsky said the earth is the
cradle of humanity but we do not stay
in the cradle all his life depending on whether I am
convinced that life will form a
consciousness on a global scale
before
to spread in the stars it remains
a question is what we will be
like the dinosaurs an attempt
aborted to a dead end of
evolution called to disappear and
give way to other forms of
collaboration because we wanted
to be too fat too greedy too much
competition or will we be
like the cells this step really
fundamental that allowed life to
win the stars as I wanted said
the period similarities becomes more
in shorter
it means that this choice we must
do it very fast
unlike the dinosaurs we have
awareness of this choice we have the
technical possibility of becoming a
planetary intelligence also I you
invite to reflect on your life on
what you are you what you
do in your work
in what you do in life
what are your values and what is it
there arises says to ask the question
that he is the part of you
dedicated to the competition acquire
new markets
acquire new customers sell
more produce more we get more
to become richer more beautiful stronger
that the neighbor and that he is the part
of you devote to the
collaboration has created a humanity
best
what part of you
dinosaurs and that he is the part
of you who are looking towards
stars
thank you
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