So really, the central question is,
how can technologies enable a meaningful future for humankind?
And what role should humans play in an increasingly machine dominated world?
How can values and ethics become part of the technological development process?
Sadhguru: You know, I remember this situation probably in seventies, when in the Mumbai
docks,
which is called as the Mazagon docks, they installed the first gantry.
And all the labor, the coolies, who were there went on strike, protesting -it was a major
strike.
Because till then the vessels which came, were unloaded by men carrying sacks out.
Those days most of the vessels were of a capacity of 25 to 30,000 tonnes were the largest vessels.
Today most vessels are over 100,000 and even quarter million tonnes kind of vessels.
So, they were taking anywhere between twenty-six to twenty-eight days to unload one ship.
And they went on strike because what are we supposed to do?
What do we do with our muscle? That's a question (Laughs).
So, man's muscle became irrelevant, because the machine came.
To all the ladies, I want you to understand, all of you are here today
not because there's been a serious evolution in human consciousness, simply because of
technology,
that man's muscle does not determine
how big or small you are.
If muscle determined who… who should rule this place, still situations would be still
the same.
So, from muscle to machine we shifted.
Now, again a time is coming, people who have a certain amount of memory -
which they call as education, scholarship, or religiosity
or whatever - they're all feeling threatened.
The strange thing is they're inviting me to all kinds of artificial intelligence conferences.
I say, “Why are you inviting me?
I'm not artificial (Laughter).”They're saying, “No, but if this comes, what will happen?
We’ll lose our jobs.” I said, “That’s fantastic (Laughs).”
If all of you lose your jobs, it's fantastic.
Because even when I went to school,
I just thought somebody just read a book a few years ahead of me, how come they're acting
so superior?
They just read a book ahead of me.
A few years ahead, that’s all.
If I had come fifteen - twenty years ahead, I would have also read the damn book .
So just by holding some memory in your mind, we've been acting big,
just like muscular people were acting big at one time.
They were the kings.
If you had big muscles you became a king at one time.
Today, we will put you out there (Gestures) at the gate (Laughter).
So the same thing will happen now in a different way,
your memory will be of no value.
It's a great time.
Because today my phone has six hundred GB memory,
it can do ten PhDs a day.
It has enough knowledge to do its own thing.
So these days are coming, this is fantastic.
Why do we fear technology?
We fear technology because of the kind of people who will handle it.
That's a problem.
Technology is a fantastic facilitator.
Technology is a big relief from a huge burden we've been carrying on our heads.
But we fear this well-being
because we have not taken care of what kind of
human beings we create on this planet.
We have not focused on that.
We have not focused…Our education systems
have not focused on what sort of human beings we produce in this world.
We’re trying to fix it with five ethics or morals or “don’t do this, do this”.
This is not going to work.
Forever they have taught and these things have not worked,
because you cannot restrain a human being by telling him “do this, don’t do this”.
If there was a sense of inclusiveness, as we went through this earlier,
if you sat here and experienced all of them as part of yourself,
you will not need any kind of guideline from anybody,
you will not do anything unnecessary for somebody else, isn't it?
This is yoga.
Yoga means there is a union with everything around you.
Right now, we are valuing only people's memory.
Well, we will produce machines which will have a million GB, all right.
So your brains cannot contain that much.
So, now it becomes significant,
we are coming to a time where human consciousness will become the most important thing.
One thing the machine cannot do is to be conscious.
So, what kind of a human being you are,
will become more important what...than what nonsense you carry in your head - isn't it
great time?
Hello, great times are coming (Laughs/Applause). So we should not fear technology.
Well, as you said, laws to regulate this, that, you can do.
But within no time there will be technologies to circumvent those laws, as you're seeing
always.
Well, all these years if you make a law, it takes fifteen - twenty years to circumvent
it.
But time is coming, if you make a law, within three days they'll circumvent it.
Yes.
Because the capability is such.
So these are great times that none of your laws will work.
The only thing that will work is what sort of a human being are you.
Then human energy, human education, everything needs to focus on what sort of human beings
do we produce.
This should become the prime interest of humanity,
that what kind of a human being am I - am I inclusive or exclusive?
This is the basic question.