{"id":83045,"date":"2017-02-19T10:00:57","date_gmt":"2017-02-19T09:27:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e52.nl\/?p=83045"},"modified":"2017-02-19T10:00:57","modified_gmt":"2017-02-19T09:27:47","slug":"tomorrow-is-good-maarten-steinbuch-a-minister-for-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/en\/tomorrow-is-good-maarten-steinbuch-a-minister-for-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"[TOMORROW IS GOOD] Maarten Steinbuch: A minister for Technology"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tomorrow is good.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Screen<\/a>In a weekly column, alternately written by Lucien Engelen, Maarten Steinbuch, Carlo van de Weijer and Daan Kersten, E52 tries to find out what the future will look like. All four contributors are \u2013 in addition to their \u2018normal\u2019 groundbreaking work \u2013 linked to the SingularityU The\u00a0Netherlands, the organization that focuses on spreading knowledge about technologies that can provide solutions to the problems of our time. This Sunday, it\u2019s Maarten Steinbuch\u2018s turn.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

By Maarten Steinbuch<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"SU<\/a>Technology is all around us. The coming years even much more intense than we can imagine now. That’s one of the reasons why I have joined\u00a0SingularityU Netherlands<\/a>. Technology is\u00a0going to change our jobs, the types of labour, our mobility, our energy, our leisure time, our health, our safety. The education system must change as well<\/a>, our university should be\u00a04.0<\/a>.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/youtu.be\/NX8y9T1MaP4<\/p>\n

If our children are our age, our mobile phones are\u00a0thousands of times faster, if there will still be mobile phones existing in that form at all!<\/p>\n

\"raymond-kurzweil-graph\"<\/a>Because we foresee this, and also the economic strength we can gain by educating more people in\u00a0engineering, we have “4-out-of-10” as the motto of the Technology Pact<\/a>. In other words: 40% of the new generation of workers will have to be trained through technical or beta schooling.<\/p>\n

In fact, this development affects all ministries. But making connections between ministries is tricky, as we see more and more crossovers (such as mobility, ICT and energy). And because the development of technological innovations always has an exponential character, and thus grows very quickly, we must ensure that the policies and politicians are well prepared and can move along in that process.<\/p>\n

In this respect, the speech of Peter Hinssen on Our Future Health Congress<\/a> last year I found very inspiring:<\/p>\n