This is the crew of Apollo 13. We should be running there. By you name it. Or it's about when you close out our conviction of a Prius and get back to a pleasant evening and odyssey. Good night. Throughout history, the lack of information has caused all kinds of challenges. This is Houston. Say again, Please. In 1970, there was the Apollo 13 crisis. When that phrase was called down from space. What the team in Houston did is they had a complete physical and analog replica of the capsule that was in space on Earth. So they could go in there and start studying that physical replica. And based on the data that's being transmitted down to us, they could then use 15 simulators to study how would that impact the trajectory of the capsule to get the astronauts down safely. So the concept of digital twin, you might almost think that it was analog twin before it was digital twin. My name is Alexandra Whittington. Kevin. Benedict. Frank. Diana. The way I would describe a digital twin is it's a virtual replica of something that's real. You can have a digital twin of a person, such as a medical patient. You can have a digital twin of a place, like a city, or you could have a digital twin of a thing, whether it's a farm or a car. So it's a way of representing something from the physical world in the digital form, but allows us to have a conversation with data. Depending on what that digital twin is designed to capture and measure and sense, you could learn. Interactively about that place, person or thing in real time. And unlike a traditional simulation or model, it's two ways. We can tell its stuff. It can tell us stuff. It's not just a one way St. And I think that is the biggest difference and the biggest step forward that digital twins represent in the journey. We're at a place where the underlying foundation is there. It's the combinations of these foundational elements that start to give us other advances that we can see in terms of health and Wellness. We're at a point in history. Where for the first time in over 100 years, I'm seeing a number of factors come together that helps me believe in that further advancement of human development. And that's why there's a belief in 2023 we're going to see an expansion of not just digital twins, but its application. Throughout history, leaders have always struggled and been terrorized by a lack of information. Leaders are increasingly not just focused on the future, but are trying to absorb as much of an understanding of that future as possible, which means they've they've shifted their view. To listening to some things that might be terrifying at some level. And I get this all the time. It's part fascination and part terrifying. And if it isn't, I'm not doing a very good job of articulating where all these things are going. What we like to talk about is rehearsing the future, which means we envision possibilities, put ourselves into that context, and then figure out what would we do, how would we act? How do we respond to these conditions? Let's use an example. There's a really popular conversation happening right now about us living longer. And as we live longer, what does it mean to our traditional view of retirement? So rehearsing means we start to think through, OK, what could retirement look like in the future if we indeed live to 100? Plus, if you're a financial institution CEO and you're sitting there thinking about what that means to you as a business. That rehearsal helps you think about your own potential pathways. And it's not saying to a leader it's going here because you just can't do that today. I don't think you could have done it in the past, but you might be able to think about these five scenarios and what would you do if this scenario played out? And in innovating around that scenario, are you proactively and interactively thinking about the shift that occur, that alter the path of that scenario and as that shift occurs? Is it scenario two that might play out? And at least ideating and innovating at a level that allows you to shift quickly a scenario two, we're the one that plays out. It's really describing the ability again to use all the visual tools at our disposal to make complex information simpler and quicker to understand. Digital twins can take many shapes and forms. It could be just a function of your smartphone as it evolves overtime, it could be a function of your smart glasses, your contact lenses as it evolves over time. But it can take physical form, It can be a robot. We're already there and so does that robot really become the manifestation of your digital twin? We've reached the point where an acceleration is likely. So if we think about examples in our world today, AI has hit an inflection point. It's not just a niche technology, it's application is very broad and will impact all aspects of society. Digital Twins involves the use of AI. It can involve the use of VR. It can involve the use of the Internet of Things. That can involve the use of various sensors and 5G or 6G. So I think that it's important to study and understand this because all of these technologies are meshing. The building blocks are there. It's how we combine them that starts to accelerate innovation. And Digital twins, as an example, foundational technology helps us rehearse. I had the opportunity to work for a company in the vehicle safety industry. Part of what I was doing is brainstorming with this organization on what would a digital twin of a vehicle safety system look like? What if your car could anticipate accidents ahead of time? So it could look around the corner and it could recognize that intersection was prone to a particular kind of accident. To be able to prepare the vehicle in advance to keep everyone safe, that's where the future is going. It's taking historic information and it's taking what we're seeing in real time merging that together to be more intelligent at every level. We could want to have a digital twin of ourselves or of another person to understand the human immune system down to the specific person. So that would be like someone being able to model your body and have constant real time information about what's going on there and then they can predict. Exactly how your body will respond to a specific pathogen, what it would take to get you better, and what you can do to boost your immune system to protect against different diseases. At CES, the Consumer Electronics Show in 2023, a French startup actually showed a digital twin or surgical procedures. This is a digital twin of the patient, and what they can do is use the digital twin to basically practice. You will get a dry run of your surgery and your doctor can then go in and do the most optimal surgery once they've experimented with the digital twin. And you can be sure that whatever is happening to you when you're under anesthesia is the best thing for you, and there won't be unexpected negative outcomes. Let's use it in the context of education. Consider a time where an AI or digital twin is following you around from birth, and in doing so learns more about you than you could ever know about yourself. And in that context, then can nurture you, can guide you, can help in an educational learning process personalized to you as a human being, as opposed to the current education system. That's really broadly applied. The positive, obviously, is the influence and effect it has on the education of our youth and in ourselves. But there's an another. Ave. here. And that is when we think about digital twins of us humans. There's that path where we actually merge with machines. And as dramatic as that sounds, we're already doing it at some level. A pacemaker is just a fundamental example of how we've merged with machines in the past, and it likely alters what it means to be human probably at a level we've never seen before. I don't think there's any technology that should be blanketly applied. I think one of the most important things that a futurist brings to the table. Is this idea that we should use technology, but we should use it appropriately? We should use it when it's needed and when it can have a positive impact. There needs to be. Important and healthy conversations to really figure out what are the benefits and what are we willing to give up by way of privacy to achieve a better society. What's encouraging me is that the dialogue is elevated. We're talking about things that I would not have heard leaders talk about just three to four years ago. It's very encouraging to hear that kind of conversation and why because the world is changing too quickly and we have to be able to manage a productive path. So yes, it's a conversation that's happening, ramping and very encouraging.