What do you mean by 3. 0 . Peter i talked to scientists and got a sense of where we are in the evolution scientifically. Where it started from was the earliest humans were the ones that were largely subjugated by nature. They are at natures mercy. Technology played a major role. In the last 200 last 2000 years or so we have been humans 2. 0, humans living in relatively in relative harmony with each other. Humans 3. 0 is i think where anthropologists call it. A that is where human start to affect the nature. Our environment and own biology through technology. There is a debate when that started. Some say the Industrial Revolution, others say it is more recent, the digital revolution. What ever the case we are certainly in the midst of it now where we are developing things like we are getting really into buyer engineering and narrow science. And neuroscience. Into bioengineering and neuroscience. I developed more complex ideas of what humans 3. 0 is. Once it went through all these various different chapters, which i will talk about i came to the conclusion that humans through most of history, we have been torn between these historical forces of competition and cooperation. Competition means killing each other as well as other means of competition. Humans 3. 0 is we are starting to realize both those forces work for us together. We can compete with each other not kill each other. We can do the mundane competition, but also cooperate with each other. That is my more in depth definition. Host do you believe we became humans 3. 03 your research in the industrial or digital era . Peter i dont think you can jot a line, it is ongoing. I followed you can draw a line. It is ongoing. I looked at each aspect of society and culture. The chapters are divided into here we are on economics, here we are in relationships religion, privacy, happiness all kinds of stuff. I tried to chart the evolution of those aspects through since we have been cavemen and cave women, then come to conclusions from there. I didnt draw any light between Industrial Revolution and digital revolution. In some cases it was hard to come up with any kind of numbers or data because we havent been tracking a lot of things for a long time. Asking basic questions like are we more private today than we were 2000 years ago, that is very hard to tell. And how would you track that 2000 years ago . In the chapter i have on relationships, one of my favorites, i talked to one of the founder of ashleymadison. Com, which is a website for Extramarital Affairs and asked him if we are having more affairs today than 30 years ago, and he is not sure. The data they are getting now is going to give them a lot of information, going to give us a lot of information years from now. But we dont have anything back in the 60s or 70s. Host one of the returning themes in your book is the issue of solitary. Is that the downside of the digital revolution . Peter i think so. One number i found a little disheartening is studies have shown that people today are identifying that they have fewer close confidants than ever before. I dont remember the numbers but 30 years ago the average person would have five close confidants whereas now they would have one or two. That is interesting compared to what we know about the internet and social media and the digital revolution everybody has hundreds of friends on facebook and thousands of followers on twitter. Our social circles have theoretically expanded. Not just the information about close confidants but you look at family sizes. Family sizes are shrinking. The marriage rate is going down. People are not joining things like clubs or culloden us. We also have religiosity, people who identify as part of religions. People are not joining things as much. I dont know if they are substituting vast with joining groups on facebook. That is one of the downsides. It almost seems like a counter reaction to this internetbased social explosion. We are kind of shrieking inwards at the same time. Host is it fair to say your book is a positive look at technology or you take a positive attitude for investment for advancement . Peter that is almost its selling point. We often focus on the negative. I spoke to a veteran science journal in denmark. Denmark is the happiest country on earth according to many surveys. He said something very poignant that i remembered. His answer was that the media is kind of like our service kind of like our nervous systems, it is our collective nervous system where our own nervous system they had a line of information bombarding us. That is kind of what the media is therefore i suppose. I think it is counterintuitive to say things are Getting Better largely thanks to technology. Technology doesnt magically solve problems but it does enable things, particularly in terms of economics. One of the great Untold Stories is the United Nations and the world bank, other than officials there, are eclectic. Their stories are not being told more. The extreme poverty is to cut in half in the world faster than they thought was possible. Anywhere at any point in history, these are massively good news stories. It is counterintuitive with a book that has relatively optimistic and positive conclusion. The hardest thing about working on it is to distance myself. Everybody has bad things happen to them in their daily lives. Im a journalist and we have layoffs and cutbacks on a daily basis. Hard to step back from the daytoday and remember the data from a distance. Things are actually Getting Better. It is optimistic. Host three exempts of technology you talk about neuroscience robots. Peter robots is an interesting one because 2014 was the year of robot angst. Some kind of story about how robots are stealing jobs from humans and we are all going to end up out of work. You hear stories about here is a robot that is a better bartender, heres a robot that is a better waitress. The point that i think is missed a lot in that is every prior revolution or advance in automation actually resulted in better jobs for humans. They gave me an example 200 years ago. Over 75 of the American Population was farming. Those farmers could not have imagined 200 years from now jobs like web designer or videogame designer they couldnt imagine those jobs would be possible. I think we are in the same situation where we are really worried about taking jobs. We are having a hard time imagining what we are going to be doing. I think history has shown we will figure out a way to combine robots in ways that are previously unimaginable. Narrow science is an interesting area. We had some Major Projects narrow science is an interesting area. We have some Major Projects neuroscience is an adjusting area. We have some Major Projects underway. We have there appears we have all kinds of therapies. The brain projects are going to result in a lot of things. What they are going to be is hard to imagine. You can kind of project forward some possibilities are we will finally come to understand the brain. Some of the futurists out there believe that the brain is just a pattern and once you understand that pattern you can replicate that pattern. If that is true it is going to be amazing. We will be able to transfer them into virtual worlds, robots, and live forever. In the more short term it is going to result in narrow science. You can combine neuroscience with genetics. The sequencing of dna is getting cheaper every year. It is not too far into the future where we are all going to be able to sequence our own dna. That is going to result in more individualized rugs, which is going to give us better treatments or whatever ails us. I know you watch commercials for certain medications on tv. They have a horrifying list of side effects. Hopefully that is going to change soon because drugs today are created to service a massmarket. You are going to have all the side effects. This drug will counter that side effect. We have more tailored trucks and more effective drugs that will result in better health. I think youtube is a good proxy for what is happening creatively and expression wise for people. This is mostly endemic to the internet digital revolution. People now, everybody can take a photo. People take photos on their cameras. You can dump them all out online and you can show somebody that ham sandwich you had lunch. Most people wouldnt consider that art but it is a form of expression. That wasnt possible just 20 years ago. Taking a photo 20 years ago cost you a lot of money. A photos, blogs Youtube Video games, people are Getting Better tools to create their own video games. The question a lot of people have been asking is who gets paid . How do people who do this stuff especially get paid . That is a valid question. Everybody can do this now. Everybody can express themselves. That is a massive leap forward for us as people. Host you have a chapter here, marx was right. What does that mean . Peter that does back to high school sociology and politics. Marx is associated with the dielectric. It is briefly masters and slaves and then conflict between the results in emerging at some point. Eventually people would get tired of that. There would be no ruling or underclass. In some ways i think we are still very far from that. World leaders try to impose it. Going back to the definition, we are subconsciously learning we can cooperate and compete at the same time. Further is further is the understanding that we do benefit without somebody else losing. So i think we are getting closer to that understanding and some countries are further ahead than others. Denmark is considered by many to be a socialist country. One thing they do have is a very large sense of trust among people. They would understand taxes and that sort of thing are necessary because it can result in Transportation Systems that get workers to the jobs at times. That is a more enlightened understanding of my neighbor doesnt have to stuff doesnt have to suffer in order for me to benefit. How does that tie into technology . Peter that was the conclusion of the book. If we look into all of the other enabling factors, whether it is health, life expectancy, economics, or so on, it is viewing that it is fueling all of those aspects. It is fueling all of the contracting factors. Posts your conclusion, if you can expand on this i cant wait to fly across the galaxy. We wont have to cross that bridge or write that book for at least another two decades. Peter maybe people wont be writing books anymore. I dont know. That is also another wink back to the future, that we can transfer our minds into machines. That is still largely Science Fiction fan. I think that is a tongueincheek way of ending the book. That is one thing i should mention, although the book is very datadriven i didnt write it for keats. I didnt write it for the numbers. I very much like pop culture. I play video games, i go to movies. I try to take numbers and illustrate them more. I talked to writers, i talked to videogame makers. It was colorful interpretations and some of the numbers as well. Host why are you here at ces international . Peter this is my eighth show, so im generally here as journalists, seeing this happening. This year i was also on the other side of the fence where i was part of the book club. They have some Technology Books they showcase here at the show. I was fortunate enough to be selected. Im on both sides of the fence here. Post thanks for being on the program host thanks for being on the program. The communicators is on location at ces international, the technology and trade show held every years in las vegas. One of the areas we are looking at is the new Technology Area and start up companies. We want to introduce you to the company is called i skn. What do you make . We reached [indiscernible] we had the prototype. Two days ago we had to finish product. You can put in any paper or no book on it. It digitizes your drawing. This is the slate. You conjure anything you want here and it will immediately digitize onto your laptop or tablet . On your ipad, on your pc or mac. I can demonstrate here. Im not a good draw or im going to use a template. With a real pen, just right here. Is it a difference from the samsung note . There are no Electronics Inside the pen. Just a normal pen with a small magnet just right here we are using real coverage. With our technology there is a sense of metric and size. This is the first step, just make the eyes. And then we can select the drawing. Maybe something larger or easier. Then you can have a replay of your drawing and share it with friends on social media. That drawing is on your tablet. You can even use the plate. At the end of the day where did you get the idea for this technology . The project started three years ago. We were four people last year and today we are 16 people in france with more than 15 it started in december. Product is called it is called the slate. Thank you for your time. Another new product being displayed here in vegas, it is a wristband. He is the coo. What is your Company First of all . We use wearable devices only using the sense of touch. These of the wristbands right here. Many situations. It is a softer, kind of a flexible wristband. It allows you to communicate without trading or without writing. How would you communicate if you wanted to send someone a message to say help me . I push here. I felt the buzz. I have already received vibrations around my wrist. Where do those messages go . The wristband will communicate and relay information. Here is the mobile app we use to define. It would be two big vibrations around there. If i push this button, i say it is in control. We have a library of vibrations playing on intensity. You can have many many changes of vibrations. Is this product on the markets now . This product is on the French Market now. They improve the safety of their employees. We have some women working in emergency services. And they can discreetly if they were in trouble they can save someone. We receive a message via vibration. It will stand three seasons. You are in vegas at ces, are you trying to break into the u. S. Market . Yes, it is key for us to the international. We must be international in the u. S. Is a key market. We notice a lot of french Tech Companies are here. Is there a Silicon Valley in france . There are 66 companies coming from france this year. That is the coo of novitact. Announcer you have been watching the communicators on cspan. 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