What's happening in the multipolar world?

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1. What’s in it for Asia, the technology landscape and our future What’s happening in the multipolar world? Harish Pillay Open Source Program Office APAC Red Hat hpillay@redhat.com @harishpillay 1
2. 2 Where did “polarity” come from?
3. 3 Credit: http://www.essential-humanities.net/history-overview/world-history-timeline
4. 4 Credit: http://www.essential-humanities.net/history-overview/world-history-timeline/
5. 5 Credit: http://www.essential-humanities.net/history-overview/world-history-timeline
6. 6 Early 1990s
7. 7 Three critical human inventions
8. 8 Three critical human inventions Writing
9. 9 Three critical human inventions Writing Printing
10. 10 Three critical human inventions Writing Printing Internet
11. 11 Internet The Internet subsumed all writing, printing and added a many capabilities not obvious that it could happen
12. 12 Internet The Internet changed how we connected
13. 13 Internet The Internet changed how we connected The Internet changed how we learned
14. 14 Internet The Internet showed the best of people along with the worst
15. 15 Internet The Internet showed the best of people along with the worst The Internet suggests how we can do better
16. 16 I will posit that “multipolarity” is a positive thing
17. 17 Why?
18. 18 It is about diversity of ideas, sharpening of thoughts and action - that there are more than one way to do things
19. 19 Let’s consider 3D printing
20. 20 Today, with 3D printers, can make pretty much anything, anywhere.
21. 21 3D printers will lead human explorations of the moon and beyond.
22. 22 https://www.thingiverse.com
23. 23 Let me switch gears and look at Asia
24. 24 Let's look at reality (or a perception of reality) in Asia today. We have a few groupings: • Central Asia • South Asia • South East Asia • East Asia
25. 25 • From the conclusion of the WW2, Japan became an economic powerhouse. • Since about 1980, China started their economic trajectory • India started later and moving along well. • The Tigers: Singapore, Taiwan, S. Korea
26. 26 天下
27. 27 天下 - tian xia “all under heaven” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tianxia
28. 28 • Tian Xia is a 3000 year old Chinese cultural notion that all of the geographical world is linked with the Chinese sovereign - equal and subservient.
29. 29 • Tian Xia is a 3000 year old Chinese cultural notion that all of the geographical world is linked with the Chinese sovereign - equal and subservient. • The geographically closer to the Chinese emperor/sovereign, no matter how different the people "look", they are all part of the "all under heaven" or tian xia.
30. 30 Understanding Tian Xia that would provide some context and would make sense about how the CCP thinks (2022 and beyond).
31. 31 • Fast forward to the 1800s, the European nation states and later the United States were on a similar Tian Xia, except that this was done with a different set of objectives.
32. 32 • Fast forward to the 1800s, the European nation states and later the United States were on a similar Tian Xia, except that this was done with a different set of objectives. • [oversimplifying] The influence of US/EU models were about empowering regions to be democratic (much later), not to be tributary states (did not always turn out that way), but to be sovereign entities on par with the US/EU.
33. 33 • The Chinese Tian Xia and the EU/US models of hegemony are both happening in parallel as well as in conflict of these other.
34. 34 • The Chinese Tian Xia and the EU/US models of hegemony are both happening in parallel as well as in conflict of these other. • This is both a good thing for Asia and technology for it gives diversity of ideas and finding ways around constraints pushes forward innovation. .
35. 35 • The Chinese Tian Xia and the EU/US models of hegemony are both happening in parallel as well as in conflict of these other. • This is both a good thing for Asia and technology for it gives diversity of ideas and finding ways around constraints pushes forward innovation. • Yes, there WILL be conflicts (all forms: cyber, kinetic etc) and we must plan and prepare for it
36. 36 • The Chinese Tian Xia and the EU/US models of hegemony are both happening in parallel as well as in conflict of these other. • This is both a good thing for Asia and technology for it gives diversity of ideas and finding ways around constraints pushes forward innovation. • Yes, there WILL be conflicts (all forms: cyber, kinetic etc) and we must plan and prepare for it • But we have a lot of the tools needed for that today.
37. 37 • The Chinese Tian Xia and the EU/US models of hegemony are both happening in parallel as well as in conflict of these other. • This is both a good thing for Asia and technology for it gives diversity of ideas and finding ways around constraints pushes forward innovation. • Yes, there WILL be conflicts (all forms: cyber, kinetic etc) and we must plan and prepare for it • But we have a lot of the tools needed for that today.
38. Harish Pillay 9V1HP hpillay@redhat.com, h.pillay@ieee.org, @harishpillay Thank you 38