[000 00 00;00] the, for centuries, humans have been trying to study our planet, to bring order to chaos, 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 makes peoples lives better. Easy. The future, it is absolutely crazy. Were already living in the Science Fiction novels the 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 the over 3 centuries ago, the age of enlightenment began, bringing with the progress, reason 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 a i model with my startup iris a i, its a kind of super brain 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 a row was over the trying to organize the knowledge of the world. Instead of the internet, he used books and he spoke to people like searching mechanics and watch make it phone and 1713. This really was the oldest son of a knife, making his father wanted him to become a priest. Instead, the need is a root became the opposite of an atheist who had no room for gold and his will team springs think of went on to reshape how we saw around the world with his maximum of this view on 6, the 17 volumes, 71000 articles 20000000 woods was the largest publishing project of the 18th century, instead of following church history. Home owning dentist is it will fitting you stick to alphabetical order entry. The science trade, the page with those of crossman kings, stood on equal footing with farm animals working people took the place a spoiled aristocratic. It was the 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 effect size as a quest for knowledge seems to me to be as an admirable and among the numerous things that the human species of 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, so i assume its in itself is not the most that somebody like you do, you know, would be uncomfortable. The encyclopedia is that same projects of the encyclopedia that becomes gave us allies, seeing that this is the knowledge that has to be split over the world. 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 gas bill to commemorate donnas birth 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 arose on seek to city 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 applicants 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 race for digital dominance 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 Home Grown Solutions to african problems. Angelo canada came to gone up from nigeria to join the math team. This is a was fit. What was it . One quote was yes, 6 if you can fix it. As the oldest people belong to different companies, they are working on the startups and where theyre from google, from the political been equity. Why . But swan, theyre just other on the continuum from uganda. Oliver training at mass is in high demand with 1500 applicants fine 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. So with tim of for up to the next 15 or 4, but we havent gotten yet. And then avery and the team. So a major and, and shes some ideas. How does that work 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 a guide in colleges Congress Funds and other people that have gone through this issue can give me tips and also help women, you know, understand the body and disabilities. These clinicians, or these areas thats of a society has please to speak loudly. Whats the word emission uh for confident as large in like the next 50 years. Whats your take on that . Oh, so in the next to the kids, for instance, the advertisements who have the highest population of youth. Thank 50 is everyones going to come as africa cause were going to be innovative, new ideas, and this we deal with the new Tech Companies and this is going to be pretty happy. An improved space. The pan african ism championed by mass just spreading further and further before the 55 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 half a century before the french revolution, 0 was studying at the famous cellphone university in paris. When his father, cutting off financially he eat dosher, living as a choose to any extra money writing, simmons pamphlets even cannot graphy. Meanwhile, he began to make a name for himself into basing circles function, licensing cars. Would catherines 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. Then the universities were digital ro is said to have loved only all secret p d. And one of these tables the cafe legend goes to the sent me the stove, so he could burn on a bunch of pages before they fell into the hands of the senses. Who wrote his 1st major book and see put the policy philosophic, published anonymously, and 1746, restricted catholic, france. His ideas scandalous. He describes christian dogma as absurd and atrocious one morning, due to 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. And stephen think, i said, if you feel being pursued by a lot, you may get conflict from your implicit faith that its a rabbit. But actually its nothing rapid, its a lot, 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. There preachers take a strong view of those who think differently like the senior se, so, for example, the self proclaimed router, which is often seen as a kind of devil incarnate, for her part as ease it isnt fighting against religion itself. But above all, against patriarchy. When theyre coming on the screen to the african continent, the basically said we know your d t, c, o gods, a false god, you know, and this one god which is a christian god. You know, i mean that applies to you. Something as well as other mentioned that, you know, thinks upon itself, you know, the right to go in pools, you know, because one of the people forgot sync. Why the but the so called false god havent 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 to 5 green. I wonder what data who would have thought about his visa . He believed in the revolutionary power of science for as these are the past deliberation life and the traditions of buddha. Ready the belief and invisible forces and in the higher self. Ready ready the. Ready you called yourself a modern day, which was a more like a modern day priestess. But in a nice way, what does that mean than um, misunderstood nowhere in 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, the 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 in. 8 and people in the us react to respond to your music. Oh yeah, absolutely. And what ways im gonna black child, im the black sheep in the industry. Yeah, thats yeah, yeah, yeah. Then as a christian nation. Right. So imagine this girl comes out calling, resolved the routing music queen of their life to bring the little girl here with all 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, isnt that it . And ill culture. You know, you cant run away from me. You cant. Its true that the enlightenment often 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 even the season wants to show me the worlds biggest booty festival was. So we take a road trip from ghana through to 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 as completely so were here at the beach and we dont where hundreds of thousands of people just vanish. They didnt just vanish somewhere and bought and sold. There was stolen. What kind of knowledge do you think was lost during the colonization . A lot of 1st morales, the morals are an important thing. Its, its, its part of the culture, its embedded 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 or you basically killed them. I believe our futures and ill pass 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 liked 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 in our 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 morales, the eoc you that for person who caught c fixed is the biggest crime of home who is a comp matter system, if another person presses decently or stands, make it in a marketplace. Do 2 root concluded that morality was not universal. Was dependent on how Sensory Perception predicting road knowledge comes from bodily experience. It doesnt stand from reason, but from the census, from feeling and touching things. 2 ways even further on doing the pleasure, whats the most important principle of life . And he himself was no stranger to place that was there in his a rustic novels. The says he had own cellphones and cafe in the series worth and helped along by good food and wine. Ive been eating like a young who does a road once road, getting round as a bull. Its Early Morning on the london underground. If the commuters here are having any kind of sensory experience, then its probably thanks to their smartphones. Indeed are goals 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 the broadening our perspective, internet and internet actually makes people even were closed some dock and a gun to or at the bottom you have data, an entire ocean of data in then here a bit smaller. You have information on comp, then comes knowledge from down, and then at the very top, a very small amount of wisdom as well. Theres always about climbing up here and thatll be the open data i information to 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 default, 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 by easily when you count the illegal votes, they can try to steal, feel action from us in the face of polarization and political influence. Can we could pdf 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. The, the, the current oral were and who has the power over knowledge . Oh, i mean, i dont think you need to is a good thing. Obviously theres bumps along the way. But in general, thats one of the key features of the current ages. There is no priestly guild who controls the canon 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 weve 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, remember why teachers always telling me do not usually give you the source that changed the transfer 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 from 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 except for it takes thought it takes me thats fine. Yep. Student jimmy wells is optimistic. People leaves in the power of the community in a crowd based enlightenment. But just like the writers that they all signal pay, the most wikipedia authors are white