"The CTO of South Korea" presented the vision of "Smartopia - the digital state" at Svit

Holding meetings using holograms, high-speed internet at 600 megabytes per second while traveling on a high-speed train and houses with zero energy balance * Impressions from one of the events at the Savit exhibition that took place last week in Hanover, Germany

"The third big bang" - that's how Dr. Chang-Gyot Hwang, former president of Samsung and now the secretary general of the Ministry of IT Planning and the Knowledge Economy of South Korea, called the vision of the country's "smartopia". According to him, this vision includes an integrated platform of computing capabilities, music, movies and other capabilities.

Dr. Hwang, who calls himself "the CTO of South Korea", presented the vision at the Cebit exhibition that ended this weekend in Hannover, Germany. According to him, "broadband has enabled a transition from one-dimensional applications, such as e-mails, to three-dimensional movies. According to Lemore's Law, processors become more powerful and denser every year and a half. Today we have reached an explosion in content. People want information anywhere and anytime. This led to the second big bang - the mobile era. There is no longer a boundary between online and offline. Cell phones used to have a few features. Today, you can put many things on a single chip, and this made this big bang possible."

He added that "Today, all these devices are moving towards an integrated platform - fusion. We are getting closer to merging the computing capabilities, music, images, telematics (remote application execution - AB), movies and more, which are concentrated in one device - the phone The smartphone or the tablet".

"We are at the dawn of a new era," said Dr. Hwang. "Today's smart phones are just the first stage of the third big bang, after the transistor and Internet revolutions. Everything will be in them: televisions, a smart office and more. The next step is cloud computing services, which will have a link from all consumer devices."

According to him, "This brings us to the vision of smartphone - the vision of turning all of South Korea into a digital and smart country. At the heart of the vision is IT, which will allow the state and private companies to provide health services, social services - and all in an environmentally friendly way."

The vision of Smartopia, he said, will be human-centered. "Until today, software development has been focused on businesses, but we have learned that technological progress is not enough - we need to add the human touch." As an example of this, Dr. Hwang brought the smart TV. "3D screens will be common without 3D glasses," he said. "We can even smell the flowers through the TV and we can meet our avatar in virtual reality."

"Chips - the main driver of IT"

He also said that "chips are the main driver of IT. Among other things, it will be possible to widely use labs on chips. Sensors will be everywhere."

The second important part of Smartopia is, according to Dr. Hwang, health. "People have always dreamed of a long life without diseases. We will see many applications of smart medical technologies - medical nanorobots will combine robotics technology and medical services. We will use a medical mirror to check the state of our health."

"Smart displays will be everywhere, and the home robot will also be a common application," he added. "In a smart office we will use hologram technology to meet with our interlocutors, we will be able to present presentations that allow feedback by touching the hologram in which they are displayed. In addition, flying security cameras will provide security to the residents and electric cars will be driven by a computerized system."

"As for the environment - technology can provide solutions to climate change. If all the televisions in the world are open - a lot of electricity is wasted. It would be good to put a sensor in them that will sense if they are being watched. Also, if we switch to electricity produced from the sun, we can reduce 40% of carbon emissions," he said. Dr. Hwang noted that "in the next step we will also move to the implementation of a green city. We will use the heat spread by people passing by in crowded places, we will create energy from revolving doors."

"South Korea has the potential to be a pioneer"

Why South Korea? Dr. Hwang asked and replied: "South Korea is a global innovator. We are also a leader in many different and diverse industries - from automotive to electronics to industrial systems. We have the potential to be pioneers."

"In South Korea, the fourth generation of cellular technology was launched - LTE - which allows browsing at a speed of 600 megabits per second. Therefore, it is possible to transfer movies in seconds even on South Korea's high-speed train. We also have KMEG (Korea Micro Energy Grid), which Electricity is produced in the houses from solar energy, and the goal is to move to building houses with a zero energy balance."

According to Dr. Hwang, the project's advisory committee includes scientists from all over the world, including two Nobel Prize winners. He did not specify a date for the realization of the vision, but the estimate is that it will be a few years, because all the technologies exist, at least in the initial or experimental stages, and what is needed is to unite all of you