For centuries, humans have been trying to study our planet to bring order to cast, to explain their own existence. We encounter a flood of information every day, but isnt making us any more intelligent. Dealing with an increasingly digitalized world is overwhelming. Its getting harder and harder to distinguish between true and false. How do you find the truth . Im really passionate about Building Technology that make peoples lives better to see the future. It is absolutely crazy. Were already living in the Science Fiction novel fil a computer. Im any Additional Data later and more. My chapter in the Science Fiction novel is about knowledge and who gets to control with the over 3 centuries ago, the age of enlightenment began, bringing with the pro miss reese and human rights. Today, these achievements are great. Do we need a new enlightenment . The 21st century . The my resume might seem a bit unconventional. Ive never had a 9 to 5 job. Ive started 6 Different University programs, built a race car founded companies and worked in silicon valley. Ive also just created an ai model with my startup iris a i, its a kind of super brand that will capture all the World Scientific research, organize it logically and make it openly accessible. Along with 20 other chuckner, its across the 11 countries. Who may, i mean with this machine we, we will have the potential to really connect all that knowledge and build new knowledge in a way that human beings just wont be capable of. But i think the church, for example, if i want to know about the enlightenment, i can search for terms like philosophy or do go with one click. Iris spits out hundreds of academic articles 300 years ago enlightenment philosopher to need you to route was over the trying to organize the knowledge of the world. Instead of the internet, he used books and he spoke to people like surgeons mechanics and watch make its own and 1713. This really was the oldest son of a knife, making his father wanted him to become a priest. Instead they needed a root, became the opposites. An atheist who had no room for gold in his will. Team springs i think a went on to reshape how we saw around group with his maximum of this, the o 6 o p d, 17 volumes, 71. Allison articles 20000000, which was the largest publishing project of the 18th century, instead of following church history, old ruling dynasties, itll fitting use to alphabetical order entries for science. Shared the page with those of kaufman kings stood on equal footing with farm animals. Working. People took the place a spoiled aristocratic. It was a reversal of power relations in book for almost every bit of progress that we have made in the last 250 years we have made on the back of the enlightenment. The idea that we can use science and reason to improve human wellbeing has worked. Its an actual fact. Science as a quest for knowledge seems to me to be as an admirable among the numerous things that the human species escapes who controls knowledge. Who decides whats true and whats false when we get taught and what gets ignored, decal is 18th century collection of knowledge challenge the existing power relations. Not that it was perfect. As a woman, i wouldnt have been allowed to contribute to the old stickler p d. The authors were all frenchman, they describe the world from their perspective. Of course, there were things that god overlooked you know, so science image itself is not a must say somebody like you do, you know, would be uncomfortable. The encyclopedia is that same projects of the encyclopedia then becomes universalize, seeing that this is the knowledge that has to be split over the will and it has to be either the alpha and omega. They need to come to the magic the my journey begins and gone at the 1st sub saharan african country to gain independence, freedom and justice and states on the black star field to memory. Donnas 1st as a free state and 1957 has independence allowed the country to break free from foreign ways of thinking. What european encyclopedias named the only true knowledge indeed rose on see till 30 donna was to called the gold coast. A country comprising a variety of kingdoms and with gold dust was once found. That was old books. It did a rule. The coast was. All he could describe little is known about the interior. He wrote the 3 centuries later. Every last corner of the continent seems to have been surveyed and measured peoples mountains and rivers have been given names these days. Anyone who wants to have their say about what we consider to be knowledge can do so on the internet. But hundreds of millions of africans still dont have internet access. While global tech giants try to bring the continent online, its clear that whoever supplies the infrastructure also exports their own world view. So between china and the west, the rates for digital dominants in africa has begun at the start up incubator, mass, young, tech entrepreneurs from all over africa are hard at work. Theyre not just interested in turning Business Ideas into profit. The goal is to use Digital Technology to create jobs and improve standards of living and to find Homegrown Solutions to applicant problems. Second, angelo cannot a, came to gone it from nigeria to join the mess team. A. This is a, was for, it was small, it wasnt close. Yes. 6, if you can fix, youll see that yes. Okay. The oldest people below 2 different companies, theyre working on the startups and where theyre from google, from the political been equity. Why . But swan, theyre the just other on the coincidence from gun, the oliver training at mass is in high demand with 1500 applicants buying for just 60 places each applicant brings with them an idea for a tech startup, messed entrepreneurs seek to improve peoples lives. Just a weather app to help Small Farmers prevent crop failures or a micro Credit System that works without an expensive smartphone. Similar to my startup iris, its often about making knowledge accessible pieces, ada and favors. App aims to improve Sex Education for women tucking and send you both moved to f. Her up to start this company where its similar for opportunity, equinox fencing or for. But we havent gotten in on an avery and a team to a major and, and shes somebody is talking about where the, how my start of also has co founders from 4 Different Countries all over europe or across group. Yeah. Some, some cultural challenges now and then that will be better. Yeah. You have a demo. You can see yes. Right . Yes. There is a fire where we men can discuss on the topics. We have infectious and diseases. Maternity. So you could be anonymous, share your question. And if its posted, being good in color, Just Congress phones and other people that have gone through this issue can give me tips and also help women, you know, understand your body and display them a ties these clinicians or these areas thats of a society has placed the stigma whats the word position for content and as large in like the next 50 years . Whats your take on that . Oh, so in the next 2 decades, for instance, the advertisements we have the highest population of youth. Thank 50 is everyones going to come is africa, cause were going to be, you know, between new ideas and this, we deal with the new Tech Companies and this is going to be pretty happy and improved speed. The pan african ism championed by mast is spreading further and further. The 4 of the 55. 00 african states are now working together as part of a newly created free trade zone. The largest in the world, supporters see it as an attempt to reverse the power in balance and prevent the cotton and from being exploited both a century before the french revolution, 0 was studying at the famous so phone university in paris. When his father, cutting more financially, he 8. 00 for living, is to choose to any extra money writing simmons pamphlets even pornography. Meanwhile, he began to make a name for himself into basing circles. French enlargements, in cars would gather in cell on. So cafe is like the pro. Com. Ok you the series of discuss the latest global developments, both have the rules. So then the central is that all the rhetorically gifted denise salons of the 18th and early 19th century were far more important for the spreading and developing intellectual ideas than the universitys work. Digital role is said to have worked on the all 6 a p d and one of these tables. The cafe legend goes that he sent me the stove so he could burn on a bunch of pages before they fell into the hands of the census. Who wrote his 1st major book and see course, the policy philosophic, published anonymously, and 1746 strips, a catholic, france. His id is scandalous. He describes christian dogma as absurd and atrocious. One morning to the room was arrested right here and number 3, route and extra religious revival has something to do with the desire to hold on to what seemed to be eternal values comes like a comforting thing to hold on to something that is im changing. Ive never understood why the fact that you get comfort from something mason believe its true. Stephen think i said, if you feel being pursued by a lot, you may get conflict from your implicit faith. That is a rabbit, but actually its not a rabbit, is a law, its going to be to face up to reality. The in west africa, highly conservative. Christianity has been spreading and recently decades. Unlike an 18th century paris, its not catholicism that dominates here, but a host of independent protestant churches. Their preachers take a strong view of those who think differently. Like the senior as these, for example, the self proclaimed buddha, which is often seen as a kind of devil incarnate, for her part as it is in fighting against religion itself. But above all, against patriarchy, when the coming that is going to the african continent, the basically said, we know your d, t. So youve got to false gods, you know, and this one god, which is a christian god. You know, i mean that applies to you something as well. If other mentioned that, you know, think support itself. You know, the right to go in pools, you know, because on other people, for gods sake, why the but these so called false gods having died out. They live on in the form of thousands of years of spiritual knowledge waiting to be revived. They called the one the base 21. 00 to 5. 00 green bill. I wonder what data who would have thought about as these he believed in the revolutionary power of science for as these are the path of deliberation life and the traditions of bluetooth. Ready the belief and invisible forces and in the higher self. Ready ready the. Ready youve called yourself a modern day, which was a more like a modern and a priestess. But in a nice way, what does that mean than um, misunderstood the word which they take, which should be more like someone that a, you know, if you flush and fly at night and kill you and you know the scary. Meanwhile, on the other side of the world, which is a healer, someone a priest that someone who can, who is advantage enough to work with spirits that can show them, you know, what is to come in the future. Did you find the difference between how people and. 8 people in the us react to respond to your music. Oh yeah, absolutely. And what ways im gunna black child. Im the black sheep in the industry. Yeah. Thats yeah. Yeah, yeah. Kind of as a christian nation. Right. So imagine this girl comes out calling, resolved the room, music queen. Theyre like to bring that little girl here with all of the stuff we dont want. And im laughing, but its ridiculous because its our tradition. What we have here so powerful. If they knew they wouldnt be meeting the chest like guerrillas would do, is in bedded in our culture. You know, you cant run away from me. You cant. Its true that the light went off and attacked the established church and its hierarchies and its orthodoxies. But it preserved azurie deep sense of reverence, whatever you think created the world. It wasnt you the season wants to show me the world because to boot do festival. Im. So we take a road trip from gonna through tell, go to bin for her buddha isnt a religion, its a way of life. Its based on knowledge thats been passed down from generation to generation. Its not written in any encyclopedia which also means its in danger of dying yet completely. So were here at the beach and we dont where hundreds of thousands of people just vanish and didnt just vanish. Someone bought and sold, there was stolen. What kind of knowledge do you think was lost during the call . A nice ation. A lot of 1st morales see, the morals are an important thing. Its, its, its part of the culture, its imbedded in you. So the morals is the 1st thing in the tradition. The knowledge that the people that were taken away last and when you see people they, you know, daily routines and practices away from them. You basically killed them. I believe our futures and all past in the sense that in order to actually evolve and live and see our future, you have to know what happened in the past. In the dashboard, a lot of these people were taken away from spiritual homes. And whether they like it or not, it could be 50000 years. The beloved line remains the same. And so if you are suppose to be a priestess, when that time comes for the calling, you cant run from it. There is no such thing as shame. And ill culture which colonization that came a lot of self. Hey, a lot of it. So its something thats new and its for like a virus. And thats where the problem always starts. The 1749 does arose, work cold letter on the blind for the use of those who can see you wanted to show how much, how census influenced including m morales. He eoc you. That for person who caught c fixed is the biggest crime of home who is a comp matter system, if another person dresses decently, or stands, make it in a marketplace. Do 2 root concluded that morality was not universal, was dependent on else sensory perceptions. Your knowledge comes from bodily experience. It doesnt stem from reason, from the senses from feeling and touching things. Ways even further on doing the pleasure, whats the most important principle of life. And he himself was no stranger to pleasure. Whether in his erotic novels, the says he had own cellphones and cafe in series worth and helped along by good food and wine. Ive been eating like a young who does a road once road and getting round as a bull. Its Early Morning on the london underground. If the computers here are having any kind of sensory experience that is probably thanks to their smartphones. Indeed, all his time knowledge was controlled by king and clergy in our world, data brain supreme. Pretty much anything about our world could be found via Search Engines, like google and personalized algorithms determine which parts of the world we all got to see when internet became so popular. Now have even more radical form of democracy. Our own can participate through the internet on the inside of broadening our prospective internet internet actually and makes people even were closed some dock and a gun to or at the bottom you have data, an entire ocean of data. Instead, here a bit smaller, you have information on comp, then comes knowledge from gum, and then at the very top and a very small amount of wisdom. But it is always about climbing up here and thatll be the open data. I information with the knowledge to which device. Sometimes the path to wisdom begins with a simple search query. When i type in the default, the Search Engine gives me nearly 16000000 results and under a 2nd. And the 1st hit the open encyclopedia wikipedia among the worlds top 15 websites. Its the only one thats not for profit. And if i want to add to the accumulated knowledge about the to home, i can just like thousands of others before me. I can also join the discussion about where the truth lies. Wikipedia, co founder jimmy wells helped create the largest democratic encyclopaedia in history, a data hole for the internet era. But unlike the honest to globally deep wikipedia has to contend with fake news conspiracy theories and lobbying a world where everyone can broadcast their own version of whats true. If you count the legal votes, i easily when you count the illegal votes, they can try to steal fi election from us in the face of polarization and political influence can we can survive as a public repository and objective truth. It is a little sense that skepticism has to be the 1st step of finding the truth that that has to be the touch stone for, for everything to you to agree with us. Uh, yeah, i do. You know, if youre in school today, and you definitely need to be fully trained on how to spot misinformation. Uh, how to check different seemingly. What looks like a new site is a real new site or not. And if you dont have the ability to distinguish between the 2 and you are quite vulnerable and we do see quite a lot of people, this isnt just young people. Live in a current world where and who has the power over knowledge . Oh, i mean, i dont think anyone is a good thing. Obviously theres bumps along the way. But in general, thats one of the key features of the kind of data is there is no priestly guilds who controls the kind of knowledge. Do you think this will continue . I mean, there, there are threats to this, this openness and freedom is off with are definitely threats. And we do have this risk as we see country after country around the world, claiming a global jurisdiction over their rules are on the internet, which leads to more blockages, a more fragmented internet. And its really against that ideal, that enlightenment, ideal me, that were all people on this planet trying to learn, find, to know, trying to understand the world. We been blocked in china for quite some time. And were sometimes blocked in other countries. And usually its about some specific information thats true that they dont like i remember my teachers always telling me do not usually give you the source that changed a bit. Yeah. You know, i think its, its really about challenging that presumption, right, that ordinary people can participate in the knowledge process. And its the idea that you today right now have the right to come and engage with information to engage in that public dialogue about what is true. Thats a pretty radical idea. Even for this era, that knowledge is open, that everyone can join in the, the debate, the dialogue, the chewing, the, the search for truth. And that it isnt just the province of a handful of selected. And that idea is very much and enlightenment ideas and takes effort that takes thought it takes me thats fine. Yep. Student yeah. Jimmy wells is optimistic. People leaves in the power of the community in a crowd based enlightenment. But just like the writers of the all signal page, the most wikipedia authors are white and mail and open dialogue can sometimes turn into a war b