Companies who are trying that bass to get consumers who looked in order to sell their products would you have a point i mean i think a lot of products have been designed by sort of western white middle class people in the past the difference this time is that it was easy not to buy their products there was a limit to how impactful that products where whereas this time the Digital Products in particular are being designed by terribly tiny size slice of society and if it is white middle class young men in a certain part of california and they are designing things that they truly believe in and i think that works for them quite a lot of them quite frankly to stick spectrum and they have issues relating to other human beings now that Technology Works for them it doesnt necessarily work for the people weve had a lot of discussion about products being designed by men that terribly well for women but its. So young men designing products terribly well for older people and even the discussion a
Which is that we have fucking number we have the brains of the page the institutions of the medieval and the technology of the gods and he wasnt being terribly complementary i mean technology is accelerating extremely fast in certain areas computing and genetics primarily we still essentially have the same brains that we crawled out of caves with and there is a problem emerging that we either have to merge with the machines or reject or restrain some of this technology but the previous Industrial Revolutions also happened very quickly in a matter of day kids and to some extent they were far more dramatic in terms of changing peoples lifestyles and their values i agree technology is advancing very quickly but so is our ive taishan to it arent we overdramatizing the fact of the digitalisation the internet and other phenomena brought on by the 4th Industrial Revolution well well we dont really know i mean its a bit like things like demographics where youve got rapidly aging societies when
Spending, good domestic momentum, but facing these headwinds in manufacturing. We are in the moderately accommodating stance, and thats appropriate. A shallow dip. Technicaloks at a recession. But this month data points to stabilization. We will be live in frankfurt for the reaction. Welcome to daybreak europe. Numbers coming through on the bloomberg. Let me get to those before i take you through the markets. What we are seeing from rwe is that its raising its standalone and that forecast for 2019. That is the red headline coming through here. It is confirming its dividend target for 2019. It has a ninemonth standalone itda is 1. 5 billion euros versus 1. 3 billion euros year on year. There are raising its Profit Guidance on the return of u. K. s capacity payments. It has raised that profit forecast for the year on earnings in its trading position and the reinstatement of the u. K. Capacity market designed to protect supply. That is what we are getting through from rwe. We are also loo
Possibly gets more into this whole philosophical ethical area is theres very little discussion about what all of this technology is ultimately for it seems to be an end in itself a lot of the time now ive seen you write recently that the future has essentially been stolen by a tiny slice of society essentially man in that twentys thirtys and fortys pushing certain forms of communication and certain channels of communication on toss are they really so much different from the big food the big tobacco Pharma Companies who are trying the bass to get consumers who looked in order to sell their products would you have a point i mean i think a lot of products have been designed by sort of western white middle class people in the past the difference this time is that it was easy not to buy their products there was a limit to how impactful that products where whereas this time the Digital Products inputs. They are all being designed by terribly tiny slice slice of society and if it is white mid
Happened very quickly in a matter of day kids and to some extent they were far more dramatic in terms of changing peoples lifestyles and their values i agree technology is advancing very quickly but so is our adaptation to it arent we overdramatizing the fact of the digitalisation the internet and other phenomena brought on by the 4th Industrial Revolution well well we dont really know i mean its a bit like things like demographics where youve got rapidly aging societies were not entirely sure whats going to happen because its never happened before and yes people point to the industrial level revolution saying its all happened before but equally in the context of losing jobs and other jobs being created but it does seem slightly different this time i mean its more than just ways of making things ways of living its a bit broader than that potentially this time and i think we need to be quite careful about things and the thing im very disappointed at the moment is possibly get more into