Success is a lasting wave - Focusing Your Energy Towards Success

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Student 3: “What exactly do you mean by
‘knowledge-based society?’ And how do you gauge
the danger that knowledge on the Internet can be lost
or misused?”
HM: “With the knowledge-based society I mean that
the people connected by the Internet and other
networks will be on a new level with a new standard
of knowledge and a new level of performance that
can be developed and perfected in a team settings.
Take the product development of Apple, which had
an immense amount of teamwork behind it.
Naturally there is also the risk, as we see in China,
that the knowledge in the knowledge-based society
cannot be totally protected, and that through product
piracy or other methods of intellectual larceny
knowledge may also be lost. But therefore we cannot
say that we will develop our knowledge no further.
We must think of this as a problem to solve and think
forward, focusing our knowledge and putting our
talents to use toward finding a new solution. The
changes to our global economic systems are very
complex and multifaceted. Outside of this they are
moving at a furious speed, and it leaves us no other
choice but to search for new and creative solutions.
The challenge is clearly stated, and it lays on us to
make something positive out of it.” […]