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Future Health Care and Pharma Keynote Speaker
A major trend in the future of health care is the boom in medical tourism. One way to reduce future health costs for individuals, insurers or government is to move patients abroad for treatment, and we will see a lot more of this in a world beyond COVID.
‘Medical tourism’ is already a $40bn industry, growing 20% a year, with over 11 million people annually travelling to another country for private treatment, and possibly convalescence in a nice hotel. The market could be worth over $130bn by 2025.
The savings in all types of medical tourism can be huge: private health care in Brazil is only 25% of the cost in America, India 73%, Mexico 50%, Thailand 65%, Turkey 60%. Within the EU itself there are also major cost differences – for example, dental treatment in Hungary is far cheaper than in Paris.
* "Life with AI - How to survive and succeed in a super-smart world" - Patrick Dixon's latest book on AI is published in September 2024 by Profile Books. It contains 38 chapters on the impact of AI across different industries, government and our wider world, including impact of AI on the future of of health care.
Read more: Future Health Care - medical Tourism - $40 billion a year industry, over 11 million people travelling to other nations for lower cost hospital treatments, dentistry or cosmetic surgery. Organ trafficking. Medical tourism will grow to $130bn by 2025.
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Future of Education, Universities, Keynote Speaker
School and college is all about preparing a new generation for their own future, but most teaching is locked into the past.
In many cases, we need to be educating for jobs that have yet to be invented, instead of training for tasks that no longer exist or are about to be eliminated due to tools such as AI / Artificial Intelligence.
The COVID pandemic forced major changes in education, some of which will endure. Over the next three decades, education will start younger in many nations than today. Education outside the home for 3-5 year olds increased by 10% to 85% in OECD nations in the last decade. This will be driven by two-career parents, and by research showing how important early learning is to later success.
Take examinations: how absurd to force young people to scribe indelible symbols onto pieces of paper, and to lock them into rooms without access to their digital brains. Cambridge University is considering allowing students to write exam papers on laptops, partly because examiners can’t read their terrible handwriting. Many other Universities have already started giving permission to write exams answers on computers if people have a disability which means that writing is difficult or impossible. Yet handwriting in exams will still be the dominant mechanism for proving student knowledge by the year 2030 in almost every part of the world. Work means using keyboards, not pen and ink.
And all that was before the rapid growth of AI. Artificial Intelligence destroyed the purpose of course work in 2022-2023 because from that point on it was so easy for students to get AI to write the course work for them. So at every level, education in most countries, whether school or university or post-grad, is locked into a last century time warp.
* "Life with AI - How to survive and succeed in a super-smart world" - Patrick Dixon's latest book on AI is published in September 2024 by Profile Books. It contains 38 chapters on the impact of AI across different industries, government and our wider world, including future impact of AI on education, schools and colleges.
Read more: Future of Education in 2030. Impact of AI / Artificial Intelligence on schools and colleges for the next 30 years. Trends in High School education, Colleges, Universities, Business Schools and Post-Graduate Education. Keynote speaker