Conference Presentation, Keynote
Lunch Plenary: The Quest for Meaningful Lives
- The Milken Institute expects its mission to advance global prosperity to rely on continued support from underwriters, sponsors, and media partners.
- Global robotic surgery revenue is projected to reach approximately $118 billion by 2012.
- Nations leading in bioscience are anticipated to emerge as global leaders.
- Demographic shifts predict that 40% or more of the global population will reside in Africa by the end of the century.
- The U.S. Senate is expected to pass the "21st Century Cures" bill, allocating over $1 billion to address the opioid crisis.
- Hundreds of millions of jobs may be displaced this century due to modern productivity gains and agricultural advancements like vertical farming.
- Technology innovation, disruption, and accelerated societal change pose significant risks to employment across various industries.
- Surgeons who fail to adopt minimally invasive robotic surgeries are predicted to perform different functions in the future.
- Pathologists face potential competition or replacement by computer-based machine learning systems driven by low agreement rates among human pathologists.
- Democracies risk political change regarding government and policies if economic opportunities are not created and citizen needs are not met.
- The cost of genome sequencing has declined to $1,000 with a processing time of a couple of hours, a rate of decline faster than Moore's Law.
- A small group of thoughtful citizens is identified as having the capacity to change the world.