Electricity + Control October 2018

NOT TO BE MISSED

Sub Saharan Africa Power Summit 2018 17 – 19 October 2018 Cape Town Marriott Hotel Crystal Towers The SSA Power Summit provides a platform to address some key challenges of improving ageing power infrastructure, developing new power infrastructure, renewable power innovations, gas to power technologies, transmission and distribution solutions, more cost-effective temporary power solutions and much more. A focused conference and exhibition covering numerous themes and matters associated with energystorage, renewable energy and smart grid in domestic, commercial, industrial, utility, mini/micro-grid and electric vehicle applications. Enquiries:Visit www.energystorage.co.za Southern African Energy Efficiency Convention 13 – 14 November 2018 Emperors Palace, Kempton Park The Southern African Energy Efficiency Convention is an important energy event of national scope for end-users and energy professionals in all areas of the energy field. Enquiries: Visit www.saeec.org.za Energy Storage 2018 22 – 23 October 2018 Emperor’s Palace, Johannesburg

Intelligent machines create the new hegemony

Dateline: 3 December 2030

I n the past 15 years, we have witnessed the stunning rise of an exponential technology - machine learning and artificial intelligence. Like Moore's Law on steroids, smart machines and computer systems have created entirely new global industries, turbo-boosted productivity, and destroyed old, industrial age business sectors. The Economist, now a purely digital research and analysis house, estimates the 'new value' creat- ed by this phenomenon at over US$ 19 trillion globally. But a full 70% of this windfall has landed on the United States and China, who have dominated the tech scene, almost to the exclusion of other nations. Despite the fact that the 'nation state' is an almost anachronistic concept in the 2030s, both China and the USA have stubbornly clung to their historically strong ideology of building their own econom- ic empires first, and dispensing largesse to the rest of the world later. It's in their nature. Other developing nations have sought to innovate and grow on the coat tails of these two giants, and some have succeeded; but many are dependent on the markets and investments they provide, and are forced further down the value chain, almost like vassal states. Industrial powers like Germany and France have used regional integration to hang onto some sem- blance of importance in this new world order, but factory work, such as it is, has drifted to India - the world's sweatshop, with the biggest pool of workers. Like two gorillas in the same territory, China and America maintain an uneasy alliance. Each is waiting for the other's first misstep; in the meantime, the dual hegemony is benefitting both.

Mining Indaba 4-7 February 2019

Cape Town International Convention Centre Championing Africa’s sustainable economic growth. Enquiries: Visit www.miningindaba.com

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