You're very welcome, Davos, cold, but we're going to warm it up with a bit of debate and discussion, navigating the fragmented world as seen through the eyes of the UAE, the United Arab Emirates, in all its different ways, a country that has shown what is possible and will be examining in a fairly forthright fashion exactly how and why and the limits of, if you will, the ability to navigate this fragmented world. And what happens when you finally reach that limit? What do you do? We've got the people who really know about this sort of thing from the UAE. Next to me is Minister Abdullah Binta Al-Mari, the Minister of the Economy for the country. How big is the economy? Well, it's about 480 billion. And growing at what speed? With the 2022, we did about 7.9, 2023, we did 3.6, half-first-half, and we were expected by the World Bank to do about 5, 4, 5% next year. So it's a solid progression. But non-oil actually really shocked us. Well, you can shock us all in a moment with those numbers. I'm grateful. Nari Woods is the Dean of the Blavatnik School of Government at the University of Oxford. What are you wanting to learn? Well, the most countries in the world are facing really difficult economic shocks, a breaking of lots of the rules of the world economy. And the Emirates is quite deftly able to navigate some of those shocks. So I'm interested in whether they can keep navigating them and which ones are likely to trip them up. Because that is, in many ways, the parameters, isn't it? Whether it's the pandemic, the financial crisis, it is that ability to be nimble, which needs to be understood. The Minister for Trade, Mr. Thani Ahmed Al-Zawdi, is with us. Sir, you have a busy agenda, the size and scale of the trade, but also the worries. We'll talk about the Red Sea in just a moment and how you believe that can be navigated or not, as the case may be. Again, what people don't realise about the UAE is that the free trade zone is one of the most important parts of the economy there. Absolutely. You know, the free trade zones play the major role in our economy, and they have a huge contribution to the GDP, especially to certain Emirates which that hosts those free trade zones. But let me just go back to you. In the last three years, with the whole global challenges, our foreign trade numbers have been growing and continuing to grow. To what do you attribute that? To the numbers. I mean, why is it? Because of the policies, the mindsets, the leadership, the vision that we're sticking to is continuing the growth. Last year, although the global trade went down until the third quarter of 2023, we had a growth of more than 120 per cent. We'll talk about that and we'll unpack that in just a moment. Good to see you, sir. I've been over the fences a few times. Many times. In discussion and debate. And here, I think the core issue, bearing in mind is AI and the warning from the IMF this week that you will have seen, didn't you? Did you see the job loss? I wouldn't say so much job losses as job... Misplacement. Misplacement, just job disruption. Yes. So we'll be keen to see how you navigate that. I think it's a very timely issue. It's very important. Actually, if you spell out what AI means here in Davos, it's probably all important because it's everywhere. Every pavilion has AI, every session has AI included in it. And I think the UAE has started the journey quite early, maybe 2017. And we can bring a lot to the table that we can share in this session now that as well. I want to go to trade, first of all. Minister, we've got three ministers. You'll just have to guess which one I'm talking about. I'm talking to trade. Minister, the Red Sea situation. Now, the title of this panel is about a fragmented world. And there's no better example of that in a sense than what we're seeing at the moment. How do you see yourself navigating that particular problem? Well, the Red Sea issue is a worrying thing. It's not only for the UAE, but for the whole world because the backbone of the global trade is the sea shipment. So disturbing that means that the whole thing is going to be disturbed. But let's go back in the last three years. Many things happened in the last three years which disturbed the global trade. Just speaking about the supply chain disturbance with the closure of the borders, the Swiss canal disruptions two years ago, et cetera, et cetera. So every time we have such an international issue which the whole world is managing to navigate around. And this one is another test to the world how we're going to rebalance ourselves and ensure the movements of communities around the world. For us in the UAE, the power that we have, and I think it's an answer to your earlier question, the connectivity that we have from the UAE and from our ports to the world. Right, but that connectivity from the UAE to the world through the ports, Yerbel Ali and other ports that you have, how do you expect it to be impacted by what's taking place? Let me just answer you here. And this is the experience which we built after the COVID. We're not sticking to conventional routes. We're rebuilding different routes. And that's why we're navigating the routes through Iran to Turkey, Iran to the north part of Syria's nations, and navigating the other routes. So we haven't been waiting for such an issue to happen. We've been working since COVID because that was a big lesson to everyone. And we started the action and moving ahead with the concrete action on ground. Now, we'll come back to this again and again. But I want to just get it on the table now. What the minister has just said, this ability to adapt, it seems to me as the hallmark of much of the success from the UAE. Now, we can go into the reasons why. It's a relatively small country in a sense that the leadership can decide and it comes down quickly in that sense. And that makes the Emirates perfect for navigating a globalized world. And I've just come from Javier Millay, who's propounding free trade capitalism for all countries. But that's not actually the world that the large powers are taking us into. So I'm really interested in how it is that you think what I'm seeing in trade is first on shoring by Europe, United States and others as they want to create jobs at home. And so they're starting to put, and we're probably going to see more protectionism to protect jobs at home. We're seeing friend shoring, security of supply. We only want supply from our friends. We're seeing green shoring. It's got to be green or we don't want it. What is that going to look like for the Emirates? Because it looks to me like a world of trade which is going to be more nationalistic. And therefore, do you think that's going to lessen the role of the port? Or do you think the upside of sanctions and geopolitical tension, what we're seeing now in the Emirates with India, is that going to be a big boom for you? Quick answer to this. We started this three years ago, three and a half with the three ministers joining the economy. First of all, we opened up our market. We start looking at the bilateral free trade agreements which we're evolving to ensure that the commodities comes to the UAE seamlessly in a price that is affordable. Second thing is the applying of the technology. And we played a major role. And that matter played a major role in ensuring the supply chain to the country. And which are the replacements? And how can we ensure the efficiency of movements of routes? And I'm not going to talk about it because the expert is here. Third one, which is a critical matter, is building new alliances and reshoring, free-shoring. We do understand that it's going to happen. We don't want to disturb our conventional sources, but at the same time, we open and diversify the supplies. So this is when we start to get to the real heart of it, isn't it? It's the traditional alliances that you had, which you've now got to nimbly sort of create new alliances where necessary. And I suppose how do you end up being friend to all without pissing off somebody? I think we took it from the Swiss. Oh. Yeah. Well, I think we are the new Swiss in the Gulf. Oh, no, that's good. That's good. Carry on. So first of all, thank you so much for the session. I think we are in the perfect session, perfect name, navigating a fragmented world. Last year in Davos, we were talking, we are entering a fragmented world. Now we are in a fragmented world. Now the question is, the fragmented world is going to stay or is going to disappear. It's going to stay for at least the next decade. We need to think about re-plumbing ourselves, thinking about new trade routes, new opening up, new alliances, new conflicts happening in the region. And let's talk about what's the major reason for this fragmentation. We are in a world where in economy, we look at one graph, supply and demand. Demand is so high and the supply is so low that's creating the kind of the turmoil happening in the economy. Now what's happening with demand? Why is demand so high? Let's take a couple of initiatives that's really creating demand so high.  We have aging economies happening in the Americas and in the Europe and Asia, where a lot of people are aging and going into the 70s, 80s and 90s and demanding products and services. Don't look at me. Don't look at me. I'm in 60s. Right, right. So I'll say, guys, going into 70s, 80s and 90s, there's a lot of demand of services and products. Well, let me finish this. All right. You carry on finishing. Right. There we go. My name is... That's $10. What? Exciting. Right. Carry on. So what's happening with demand that? Second thing, China. China just opened up a year and a half ago. Right. What's happening with that? There's a big choke of really going back to the factory floors, really pushing products out. I'll come. Let me finish my demand part, argument here. The other part is where China today, two decades ago, 20 million of them was middle class. Today, 700 million of Chinese beer population is middle class. Same thing goes to India. Now, expect a middle class to go back to factory floors. No. Who would go back until you produce products? How do you think about that? Now, re-supplying, supply is going to start being slowly, slowly, abrupted by so many conflicts happening, so many challenges happening. That's a fragmented world we are at. Now, when you speak to central bankers, they're good friends of mine and I love them, but we do disagree with them a lot. Oh, well, what? So many things. Oh, God, tell me. Increase interest rates. Well, yes, because of inflation. That's right, because demand and supply.  Right. Well, I think that's it. Yeah, let's not go down that road. I'm going to go there. I'm going to go there. That's my foot into the door. Let me speak about interest rate. So when you speak to central bankers, what do they say? If you want to stop the inflation, increase interest rates, right? That's they've done it back in the 70s and 80s. They say they call it the chalk, the demand. Well, I don't think that's going to work. Demand is still going to go high and supply is going to be uprooted across the world. Now, that's a fragmented world. Now, what the UAE is navigating now to it? Now, I'm going to come back to the UAE's part. That you are. Right. So the UAE is really looking into this fragmented world and saying, with Dr Othani and the team and the colleagues of ministers here, we're looking at how do we look at supply routes, supply chain, opening up our economy, 100% ownership to companies, visa regime, bringing people in to really look at the UAE as a place, as a point. Now, the ability... We didn't start this yesterday. Let me finish this. One minute. We didn't start this, we didn't start this a year ago. UAE built an infrastructure for Seaport. We built an infrastructure for airport in the 80s. We have the biggest airlines in the world and we have a brain port today. A lot of people. It's the number one country, number one nation to have the world, Arab youth to look at the UAE. All right, you've turned your advert. You've turned your advert. Now, tell me... You're not going to come back to me now. Sorry? You're not going to come back to me now. Oh, no, believe me. I'm well familiar with that trick. No, I'm going to stay with you for one more. What? Because it is the ability to do that nimbleness of moving things around. Right. But what's your focus at the moment? Well, four focuses, if you allow me. Just settle on the most important. Well, the world, so pre-COVID time, when a factory receives a call, I say I want quantity X and by this date. Today the factory gets a call, say I want quantity X by this date and how carbon neutral it is. Right. So we have a transition of climate change. We have a transition of energy. We have a transition of AI. We have a transition of life sciences. What are the focuses into the fragmented world navigating towards understanding the green growth of the world and these kind of aspects? Minister Alama, you just heard the sort of the nuts and bolts side of it. Ships moving things, which is crucial to the global economy. But the ability to play in the new economy, which is also part of the old economy, but let's not pass this none. What is the achievement that you're most proud of? Well, first I'd like to say I have the best seat in the room. This wrestling match that just happened here was fantastic. Well, that's just round one. I'm waiting for the coming around. To be very honest, the UAE has, over the last couple of decades, really transformed itself into a purely oil-based economy, to an economy that is a role model to moving beyond oil. First, you look at our sovereign wealth funds, some of the largest sovereign wealth funds in the world that have invested very actively in fields that were seen as hypothetical fields. Let me give you an example. People talk about the UAE and AI as if it happened in 2017. The UAE has been investing in semiconductors, in fabrication factories, since global foundries in the early 2010s. So we have actually had a focus on artificial intelligence, on compute, on digital economy, many years prior to it becoming a focus of the world. And how far is that actually domestically related versus external investment, or FDI, which will provide economic benefits? Absolutely. But you really want it at home. So you have two things. First of all, I think there is an incredible set of achievements that we're happy about. The first is September 2021, the number of workers that were in the high-tech space in the UAE were around 30,000. By September 2023, the number of workers are around 120,000. So we've seen a four-fold increase in two years. What is the reason for that? It's not just government spending. It's quality of life. So you can choose to work anywhere on earth. You will choose to come to the UAE. Second, it's friendly policy regimes and regulations. And third, the UAE has an advantage that no other country has. You have 200 nationalities that live in a very densely populated set of cities. That allows for the data sets to be truly global. So I'm able to deploy in the UAE and reflect to the whole world what the demand is. And third, you're able to move very quickly because of the cutting-edge infrastructure that exists. No. Thank you. I want to say one more. Just a moment, sir. On the floor. Sir, with respect. The rule of law. With respect, sir. With respect. Because I just want to follow through with that. But the ability of the UAE in a limited... essentially for a decision to be taken and it to be implemented and then executed because, from top to bottom, it's a truncated system in that sense. That's a great advantage. Whatever other people might say about that. That is an advantage. You can move faster. So, you know, there's another advantage, Richard. That is one very good advantage. The second is today you have credibility. When you say I'm going to do something, people believe you. And when you talk about artificial intelligence, especially a very cutting-edge field like this, and say I'm going to build an ecosystem home, you actually need to attract the best and brightest from around the world. And you can do it if you have credibility. Minister, how easy is it in this? We're all familiar with Dubai and we're all familiar with Abu Dhabi. But the other Emirates within the UAE are now saying, well, hang on a second. You know, we want to share in it as well. And that ability, of course, in a federated system that you have is also significant to spread the growth and spread the wealth. Yes, of course. And every Emirate has its own economy. Every Emirate has its own strength. We launched very recently the cluster economy in the UAE. This is ways of, as well, to bring all the economies locally, you know, working together, building on their strengths. For instance, Dubai has a very strong infrastructure. There's a huge insurance industry in Abu Dhabi. So we're focusing on the food processing, for instance, in the UAE, as a cluster economy. We have the farms and the farmers towards Al Ain, towards Sharjah and Ras al-Khaimah. So we're bringing all the food, the production, the packaging, and the food processing aspect. But we're working all in one way. And one, the whole economy of the UAE, having the benefit of growing together. We complement each other in the UAE. And as Excellency Abdullah said, we capitalize on the location and the capabilities of each Emirate. And whatever is happening in Abu Dhabi is affecting the Fujairah and Ras al-Khaimah, and vice versa. And at the same time, we see what are the factors in each Emirate, and I will play with it. I'll give you an example here. For example, it's the Emirates which gives us the access to the Indian Ocean. So most of our oil and gas storages are located there. And the pipeline is directly from Abu Dhabi to Fujairah. It's a natural thing because that is going to give us a strategic bypass of hormone strength, et cetera, et cetera. So we capitalize on the capabilities and the factors of different Emirates to move things forward. That is a huge potential that I don't think is perhaps realized. And arguably, even within the UAE, it's not fully exploited yet. This idea of there are seven and there are different... I mean, sometimes people like myself like to focus on the tensions between, say, the capital and the larger city. But there are opportunities. Well, there are opportunities in all Emirates. There are different landscapes. There's different terrains. There's different ways of looking at it. As Dr. Thani mentioned, we have access to Fujairah in the Indian Ocean. We have the access to the Gulf. There's ways to look at it from perspective. There's competition. And competition between the seven Emirates is amazing. Looking at it because you need competition. Is that really? Yes, of course. You need competition. On the private sector, I mean, there's a lot of services innovation is created when competition is available. And we have launched our competition launch for increasing more competition, actually, in the Emirates. That's something which really hopes that a lot of private sector comes in and compete. Because when you open the economy, you open trade, you open talent and bring talent in. You have competition that's missing, which creates a lot of people coming and competing. They want a competing market. Is that who you're really competing with? I'm sitting thinking about Qatar and its role competing. I'm a great believer that competition brings out the best in countries. And now, I think with Saudi Arabia's ambitious project to start attracting tourism, I think you've got competition from that quarter as well. And how do you think about that? Are you just going to stay running ahead? I'm just wondering. Numbers? Please, yeah. When you look at the GDP growth, if competition will say it will not let us grow, then all my GDP numbers should be in the minus. And if we look at that in Saudi Arabia, Saudi Arabia GDP should be in the minus. Qatar as well? No. Actually, we've grown the highest growth GDP in the GCC in all countries. Take back 2022. Now, because of my interest rate with central banks, reduce my GDP growth in 2023, but we're expected the whole GCC to grow in 2024, at least an average of 5%. Now, where is the competition part that really slows down? But the rising tide will lift all boats. That's what they said. But, yes, you are in competition in a fragmented world for investment, and Saudi Arabia is basically going on to turbospeed. Let me speak about our domestic competition. It is a very healthy competition which push everyone to improve and adopt new technologies and practices. So, wherever it's happening in one image, the others is taking it as a best practice and move on, which keeps the momentum. So, that is an internal domestic competition. Global competition is open. We're an open market. So, we're not competing only with Saudis, we're competing with Singapore, we're competing with Hong Kong. We're considering ourselves as a Singapore of the Middle East, basically, because they've been ahead of us 15 years ahead, and now we're taking over. We're taking in many of the efforts that has been there in Singapore. You have beginner advantage, and the genius of your career founding so you're well and truly on the way, but others are catching up. So, Mr. Alama, what do you need to do to stay ahead? I think Richard, competition is the wrong word. I think co-opetition. There are certain things that we cooperate in. There are certain things that we should compete in, because it's good and it's healthy. But you need to understand as well what is the state of each of the emirates in the UAE, as well as the countries in the region. Saudi needs a lot of investments in infrastructure today. The UAE has invested billions of dollars in infrastructure over the last 50 years. So we are not actually competing on infrastructure. We are benefiting from what they're doing right now. We are focusing on attracting talent. There is another issue as well. There are physical boundaries that the UAE has. We cannot become a country for 100 million people, even if we wanted to, because the land mass of the UAE does not accept it. What we are focusing on right now is the quality of people in the UAE. Think about it this way. The Prime Minister of the UAE has given me a target. And he said, when we talked about tech talent in the UAE, he said, let's think about Apple for a second. Apple is 120,000 people at the time that are able to create an economic output that is higher than most of the world's countries. He said, what if we're able to attract the best 120,000 people to the UAE? How much economic output can they create? So in that sense, what we are competing for right now is competing for the top talent, even with Silicon Valley, even with Singapore. And for the countries in the region today, I think that competition is between us and the giants. On infrastructure, there are, let's say, competitions between other countries in the region. And I think that the UAE serves as the catalyst for this. We have the highest number of trade agreements between us and other countries. We have the highest number of companies in the UAE. So what happens, let's be blunt here. What happens when the proverbial hits the fan? And, you know, what happens when your friends are at war with each other? What happens when Europe has an energy crisis because of Russia, Ukraine? The Red Sea, who it is, yeah? What happens when a meteor hits Earth? What happens when we have a big solar flare that destabilizes all of the world's technology? There are so many scenarios. Well, hang on. No, no, with respect. The one's theoretical, the other's happening. No, no, they will happen. At one point in time, one of them might happen. Well, let's not worry about what might happen. That's exactly what you're asking. Let's concentrate on what's actually happening. The point is this fragmented world business. When your friends are at war with each other, and when the whole hits the fan, what do you then do? Each entity and stakeholder has to focus on their vision and direction and keep the other matters to the relevant authorities. So those matters are going to be handled by the foreign affairs. We at the economic entities, we should focus on our targets, as simple as that. And that was the case for the last 50 years of the country. Each entity is focusing in its direction. Can I answer this directly for a second here? Because I think you're looking for direct answers. I think at the end of the day, if you're talking about people going to war, if you're talking about any of these scenarios that you're putting in place, what it requires is agility, nimbleness, and adaptation. What we have proven to the world through COVID, what we have proven to the world through all the different crises, is we have adaptability, we have agility, and we were able to pivot depending on the requirement. The UAE will never allow for these crises to be what defines it. It will always pivot and always make use of it. And every crisis is an advantage for us. Minister? I think, first of all, when you look at it, the world had economy at the driving seat. And that changed. The world now has geopolitics and politicians on the driving seat and the economy on the sidestep. The UAE, economy is still driving. Geopolitics and the politics and social stuff is in the car. So we have a driving economy driving what we're thinking in our policies. I guess that's an excellent analogy. But just to sort of... Without pushing it too far, what happens when those other people in the car start trying to drive it? And... And also, if it's an EV car from the minister, what happens when it goes wrong? They don't have a license to drive. Good answer. Very... The thing I find refreshing about the UAE, both refreshing and frustrating or infuriating about the UAE, is that they have this vision that doesn't waver and does adapt. And the refreshing aspect of it is so many other countries are lacking it. They tie themselves in their own shoelaces and then probably trip over them. So I think, you know, in the School of Government, when we look at examples of government and that the minister has come to visit, what we ask ourselves all the time about Emirates is, is it innovating too much? I remember at one point, I think you were going to build an innovation index and a momentum index. And there's a question about how you balance the drive for innovation with enough certainty that more and more junior people can begin to really take initiative and take responsibility for their jobs. Because innovation can come right from the top, but can it come from the middle? Now, I... What's the danger? What's the danger? Well, so the danger is that if your innovation is all dropped down... Right. ...you don't build up enough of a cadre of innovators who take responsibility. But the folks on stage with me are proof that the Emirates is doing that. And I think there's a magic in that that we need to study. Can it be replicated elsewhere? Or is it because it is a relatively small economy, relatively small in terms of size? And it does have a leadership that can introduce policies much more easily. Can that be replicated? A lot of countries want to. So 10 years ago, countries would say, tell us how Singapore works. And now they're like, well, and also how Dubai works. Tell us more about that. What we haven't dived into, but the minister mentioned, is the 200 different nationalities in the Emirates. And how you... What we're seeing in all other countries are real fault lines among different nationalities in countries. And the Israel Gaza situation is reverberating across those fault lines. And I just wonder, is that going to be a challenge forthcoming? And are there lessons about that? Let me take the first one. Replicating the experiences around the world, if you allow me. Basically because you just cannot copy-based any experience around the world. Even whatever we brought to the UAE, we tell it to our own ecosystem, conditions, et cetera. So taking the UAE experience globally, without telling it to those nationalities will not be applicable. Now coming back to the nationalities that we have, there is something special about the UAE, which is low as a low. And it's applied to everyone, regardless who is that person. And we don't entertain any of the international politics to affect the stability and the security of the people, regardless who are there. And that's why we're continuing. We've been managing it very well in the last few months, not to ensure that politics is not intervening and creating these fragmentations within the societies and the people who are living in the UAE. Can I just add to this for a second? I think what people don't appreciate is the fact that you have these 200 nationalities thriving and living and prospering in the most turbulent region in the world. And that is what makes this model quite unique. That hypothetically, if you go to any professor in the world, if you go to any thought leader probably 100 years ago and you said that somewhere in the Middle East we'll have a newly founded country where we're going to have 200 nationalities living and thriving together, they're going to think it's science fiction. What was achieved is truly impressive, but it should give hope that it can't be emulated exactly, but there are certain things that can be implemented across the world to at least achieve a certain percentage of that. Let's have any questions. I'm just very conscious that we're doing all the talking. Any questions? Yes, sir. Wait for a microphone and we're off to the races. Hi, Barak Ravid from Axios in the US. First, I think at least to me it's something very interesting that I watch all three of you on stage and I think that maybe I'm even older than each of you, which is something in my opinion great that I wish we had more countries. And this is exactly what I want to ask you because the UAE has been going through a transition over the last year with the new Crown Prince and this new division of powers within the Emirati government or the ruling family if you want to call it that. And I was wondering how does that influence how the UAE is going to take it from here? We'll start with you, sir. I think the UAE has built a really for the last five decades a reasonable model working on leadership. We saw the transition of presidency happened in three minutes. I don't know if you saw the video. The whole seven Emirates came together, the rulers. It was last and it transited in six minutes, literally, the whole presidency setup. I think that's how the UAE is very cohesive in the areas of leadership. And going back to the question is how can other countries do that? We cannot clone our leadership. The leadership we have has a vision has a way forward. They really have a thinking not just for the UAE but for the region and for humanity of the world. Yes. The microphone for the front, please. Hi, Alex Ravankoff in Silicon Medicine, our truly global AI power drug discovery company. And we actually do have presence in the UAE. More than 60 people in AI. And right now you have to be insane not to be in the UAE. Why the UAE and not somewhere else? All accepting, all inclusive. If aliens land somewhere on the planet they better land on the UAE. Because, you know, they'll be invited to shake Nyan's merge lease and include it. But my question is what are the top priorities for AI? You've mentioned, you know, hundreds of thousands of people that you want to invite for to be the next Apple. But Apple is very focused on very specific topic. What are your topics of interest that you think where AI is going to make a big difference? Absolutely. I think, so our focus areas are actually explained within our AI strategy. So we have six focus areas in total. We have first energy and natural resources because we believe that through artificial intelligence even if we don't control the price of oil around the world we can actually try to leverage this technology to reduce the cost per barrel and increase our profits. And second also reduce our emissions. So it's a win-win situation. The second is use artificial intelligence in logistics because that is an inherent advantage as DirectSense has mentioned. And we are a global leader in that. We have the data sets, we have the infrastructure and we have the companies. And third is cybersecurity. The more digital you become, the more you need to protect it and you need artificial intelligence in that. However, there is another angle to this as well. There is always a curve ball that's going to come your way. The system that you put in place, the ecosystem that you built should not just be built on the industries that you want to focus on. You can't put investments there. You can purposefully go and attract people. But if someone comes and tries to talk about AI and drug discovery, we need to embody the vision that they have and actually enable it 100%. Because what I think we can bring to the table as the UAE is we can bring scale because of the markets that we have access to as well as the nationalities that we have within the UAE. Yes, sir. Peace be upon you. First of all, I would like to say that I am an Emirati. I would like to say first of all that I am really truly impressed by the depth of these young leaders in the UAE. At 58 years old, seeing these young people really leading our future is very impressive. So I should really say that. Someone would say too young. Well, I'll say it to them privately. Everybody should hear that really. As an Emirati, we are extremely proud of our young people. My question. There are now a number of roads coming from the east to the west and we know that there is the development road from India and there is a cell road from China. What is the UAE actually look ahead for this? Excellent. Well, that is one of many of the roads that we are working on. But we want to make sure that we are part of the new economies. Let's explain this. This is a new philosophy which we have been seeing and monitoring for quite some time. The G7 now, which you are seeing, they are going to be replaced by the E7 in 25 years from now. Although I am expecting now it is even going to be much earlier. Who are the main E7, the emerging economies that are going to take over? We are talking about India, Indonesia, Turkey, Mexico, Brazil and another two. We want to be almost having an economies 50% more the current G7. This new corridor is going to connect India which is going to be the new power to Europe, which was one day, a few decades ago the main producer of the global commodities. But nowadays it has been taken by the east Asian nations. Is that the only option? No. That is going to be one of the options to make sure that similar to what part of the Chinese option, we are part of this and we are going to be part of many others. Diversity, ensuring there is alternatives and ensuring that commodities and services from the union to the global vice versa is going forward. They are going to want me to finish it exactly in 6 minutes and 17 seconds. Is there another question? And whilst we are going to take these questions, I want each of you to think about a decision you have taken that you wish you hadn't. Something that went wrong. Can I go first? Come on. It is not a decision that went wrong. Can I go first? No, we are having some more questions here first. Yes, sir. And then John Dufterius. Hi. Thank you. It is Jack Dutton from our monitor. Given the recent development of the GCC visa how excited are you by that that you are getting trade with other countries in the region and there has been an uptick in trade with Turkey and I was wondering what sectors were key in that uptick and obviously the foring of relations to Ankara? I will just ask the first half of the question and maybe Dr Tharn will answer the second part on the trade. The first one was on the GCC tourism visa. I think that was an idea that came out from the GCC tourism council that would allow people tourists to really come and not just look at one country but has a bigger wider range of tourism to enter but it was approved just last month in December on the summit. Now for implementation it takes six months a year for immigration to really set up for such visa. Now what is the big thing for us? Now going back to the 60s, 70s and 80s and 90s population the aging economy retired they can have grand tours now and tourism in the past. So grand tours looking at aspects of how do you actually not just go for one country but travel from one country to the other seven days and really enjoying the whole GCC as one tourism package. As nations each and every one of us now are focusing on our own grand tour to come up with the big one. No but he has a second part of the question. You've just taken his time. John. Just shout. No problem. I'm doing as you know Richard of course at NYU all the time looking at the UAE economy and traditionally you've always looked at yourselves as a regional hub and I think the COVID-19 pandemic was a turning point in terms of how you handled the crisis. I'd like to see how you see yourselves today have you graduated to a global hub or not? Regional or global? We are already global. Let's look at the numbers. Once comes a global trade we're one of the top 15. When it comes to trade and services we're one of the top 12 globally and FDI we're one of the top 20. Digital economy as well we're global. So digital economy we attract 50% of all venture capital investment in the region. We have the highest number of digital economy companies and the highest number of unicorns as well. And a huge beneficiary of the sanctions regime and techno nationalism right you've carved out your own space. You know what's very interesting? So I'm in charge of the golden visa program in the UAE where you know high talent individuals get long-term residencies. Do you know that since the war broke out to Russia and Ukraine we've had nearly equal number of companies move from Russia and Ukraine to the UAE and what's very very interesting is although there is a war ongoing between both countries they actually work together and have close fertilization as talent in the UAE. Mr. President, I'll refine the question. Please. The decision which you are most proud of or that you wish you hadn't taken start with you. The proud of is 100% ownership for companies changing a taboo in the history of the UAE from 51 to 49 to 100% ownership for any foreign companies to come to mainland and own companies. Are you going to go the other way? No, I'm not going. No. I'm really proud of leading the comprehensive economy partnership agreement of free trade agreements efforts which in two years we concluded 13 agreements and many to come this year as well. And the other side? Well, we don't take distance by ourselves because we have an institutional framework and any decision that we want to take we consult, we do in stakeholder engagements and then we take distance so if that decision is right or wrong it's not a personal decision. Can I start with the thing I regret first? Yeah, please. Sometimes you can be too early and that is an issue. The thing I regret is in 2018 we hosted a gathering to talk about governing artificial intelligence and there was absolutely no interest. So we invited a lot of countries the response we got was this is a hypothetical technology we don't have time for this although yes we had 10 countries there people actually like to just be there but it wasn't really to that extent I hope if I actually had the foresight to push that forward a few years and rehost it right before the Bletchley Accords or some of the other gatherings that happened something I'm really proud of is we really combated ignorance with the decision making process in the UAE Ignorance is what's unfortunately driving the fear on AI and the over regulation in Oxford with Kellogg College where we have 400 officials in the UAE government that have been trained on AI and they are the experts that we're depending on. Barely a minute left 45 seconds I said barely a minute Thank you all for taking the hard questions and the soft questions and we look forward to continuing there's so much more for you to see there Have you made much? Yes I have 7? Not all 7 Me neither, let's see if we know anybody who can show us all 7 Ladies and gentlemen thank you very much


Interpol secretary-general is in Davos saying it's a chance to get the chief executives engaged with global security threats Jürgen Stock joins me now. Good to see you sir. Thanks for having me in the program as now the biggest threat I think at the moment at least I mean besides the usual range of money laundering and nefarious deeds has to be cyber security malware whether from governments or other criminals I mean Interpol is Dealing with cyber crime and cyber crime is now entering if I may say in a new dimension We are discussing here Davos the fourth industrial revolution which comes with huge opportunities For our societies and economies, but there's a dark side of the fourth industrial revolution And that's the certainly the development of cyber crime which is entering into a new dimension and it's going to become even more dramatic in the future Do you see a part of Interpol's role to also investigate for example those allegations of meddling and interfering in elections referenda State-sponsored cyber. No, definitely not. This is not Interpol's turf Our turf is cyber crime traditional cyber crime cyber-enabled crime That's the way where we try to provide a platform for under our 192 member countries and provide the capabilities and the technology They need to successfully investigate this kind of crime Which is definitely comes with completely new challenges for law enforcement globally and on that of course, let's take Bitcoin Bitcoin scams some of which come from Ukraine some come from Russia somewhere in South Korea We know that they're truly global But I always get the feeling when it comes to cyber. We're just one stage behind the criminals They're ahead of us. Perhaps we are a little bit behind but we are successfully in Investigating for instance in the dark net, which is becoming more and more a problem Also providing tools and services for those who are not experts and just buy the tools and services in the internet like a like a Portnet like ransomware Have you got the expertise necessary within Interpol does I mean even national crime fighting agencies tell me, you know They need more youngsters that have the ability to really understand this Definitely the job profile within police services going to change that's that's true And it's also true that many of our member countries are struggling with lacking basic capabilities and well-trained and skilled stuff to Investigate in the cyber arena. That's definitely a challenge where Interpol tries to close the gap in providing trainings For instance dark net trainings and cooperation with the private sector is of utmost importance We have to bring that cooperation on the next level more institutionalized We need the private sector to help us in developing solutions choose a color. Yeah, let's say Green they let you hope in the country where I come from Yeah, so where would you say you are on the we are on the fracture board? No fractures in society met overly fractured That's just the middle point. You can go anywhere you like with an arrow I like to be to make my cross somewhere here in the middle because I see I see a lot of opportunities Getting worse worse or better. Where's the area? I think it's getting I think it's getting better because I see huge commitment Global law enforcement is united through Interpol and I see huge commitment of the private sector to more closely cooperate with law enforcement Good to see you sir. Thanks for having me. Thank you very much for joining us much appreciated. Thank you


I do geometry and I calculate geometrical objects. Oh, there we go. This is a configuration of regular tachyhedra called the 20 group. When you restrict all of the side lengths to be unit length, what happens is you get gaps. The idea is you rotate everything until it locks in place. The notion is that down at the Planck scale in space, everything is discretized into a point space. And we think that this is representative of the structure of the Planck scale and discretization of space. So we're working with E8. It's an eight-dimensional lattice of points being projected down into four-dimensional space. And then from there, we project it down into three dimensions to get something that we think might be the point space that the universe operates on. So here we have points in space. A lot of these points are in four dimensions, so you can rotate the points in the fourth dimension. This is just a projection down into three-dimensional space.  Randomly, the vertices are taken from the point space. And here I can view them and really get a feel for what I'm looking at. Well, let me get some more vertices going. Wow, that's a lot. There we go. What is this? So this is a set of points that I'm working with. Down at the Planck scale, we believe that space is quantized distance-wise into a set of points instead of being a smooth manifold, a smooth space, a continuum, that really you have one thing jumping to the next point, jumping to the next point. And that's what motion really is, traveling from one vertex to the next. Here is part of that. It's like a video game. Except more fun because I create it. So is reality a video game? Well, that's the real question. Is reality made out of actual stuff, made of things, or is it more of a moving, you know, is it just all information? Is it all ethereal? You know, can you go down to the atomic, subatomic, quantum level and see things moving around, or is it just really a collection of information? That's the question that's being asked by QGR. That's the question at the heart of our research.


So I'm Erin Robinson. I work for the Earth Science Information Partners, or ESIP, and this is a view of our community. There are three main member organization types, application developers, researchers, and big data centers. And they come together in these kinds of areas like data discovery, earth science collaboration, data stewardship, information quality, because they have common issues related to earth science, information, and technology. And I think that this is, it's interesting to see all of the purple dots that are the people. And we have about a thousand people that are working together on these common issues, and you can start to see how those topics are interrelated. And what's really interesting about this community is that they're technology practitioners. So they're actually people on the ground that are doing the work. So why do we care about earth science information and data? And I really am happy to follow Karen, but because she sets the data stage really well. This is from Sandy, and earth science happens to us all the time. We have disasters that are happening, and Sandy was a great example that needed a lot of earth science information. And so this bottom image here shows flood zones that have been mapped in hospitals so that emergency responders can find where, you know, where hospitals are that haven't been impacted. And ESIP really comes together at this humanware and the connecting people, these pork chop looking things, at the humanware. So they share information and share best practices of how to do data repositories or things like that. And, you know, they make these connections and they go to the software level. And we do all of this because open data, freely accessible earth science data is really important to us for things like disaster response, you know, understanding all kinds of grand challenges that are facing us as a community. So this is, I'm going to show a lot of screenshots and so I wanted to start with something a little more humorous here. We had a wiki. The wiki had a lot of great content, like educational modules. But there were a lot of questions about it, you know, is it mine because I'm part of this community? Can I use it? What's it related to? And the big question, is it finished? Or as a community manager, I loved. Where did I put it? So this led us to the natural, actually backing up. This is a lot of hurdles that the user is facing, both newcomers to our community and people that have been around for a long time. I can't find it. I can't access it. How do I know the quality? Can I merge it with something else? And this led us really to the clear solution of having a commons. And because we're funded by NASA and NOAA, we needed our work to be freely available for use for sharing, repurposing and remixing. And so this definition from Creative Commons really fits what we do. This is a screenshot from the Creative Commons, or from our e-subcommons, sorry. And there were three objectives here. First, it was a knowledge repository for our content, like data management modules or testbed projects. Second, it provides this license for the user. Here, this is a poster that's been submitted. And you can see we have the Creative Commons license. We have a citation that shows how it should be cited. And then if you clicked on the name, it would show you, you know, the different things that this author's contributed. And the other thing is that all of this content is meant to be shared socially. So they're the, you know, tweet this or Google plus this to share it socially. So this is an example of the author page. And you can see that it's starting to build a reputation in our community for where this person's presented a poster or the sessions and meeting sessions that they've led, where they've presented talks, and all of these links link back to the content. So one of our big successes with the e-subcommons was the data citation guidelines our community came up with. They shared them through the e-subcommons, and both NOAA and NSF picked these up and reused them for themselves. We thought this was a big win and really an example of the right kind of networking. Now, people were able to find the information they needed. They were able to remix it so that it fit for their agency and, you know, take it and go with it. So we were pretty thrilled about that being a big success for us. And finally, I'd like to end again with this network map. I've been reading a book by Nilefer Merchant, and she writes in the 11 rules for a social era that ultimately the social era is individuals being connected and creating value through ensembles. And I think that's what we've done here. The software, the platform itself, is available on the web in GitHub if you're interested in reusing it, and I'm on the web. And so I just appreciate the opportunity to talk, and I think this is a great lineup. Thank you.


Welcome to the Rich TV Live podcast. I'm your host Richard D'Souza and today we're going to talk about the hottest stocks of the day. So first and foremost, the hottest stock of the day right now is ABVC. ABVC, you can look at this, it shot up pre-market and then as soon as the market opened, it consolidated and it's come back down. So not one that I would personally go and chase at this point, but the RSI on the one minute is saying it's at a buy zone. So it might go higher. Anything is possible. I just don't like to chase something when it's already up 165%. I think that makes a lot of sense, hopefully to you guys, but definitely want to put on your radar, put on your watch list. They are having a monster day today up 167%. Here's ASPA up 114%, put them on your radar and put them on your watch list. Clearly another one that shot up pre-market consolidated and is sitting up 114%. Here's NXTP up 43% on the day. Here's the one day chart and you can see another one that shot up pre-market went a little higher. Kind of came down, up and down, very, very volatile these markets right now. So very difficult to kind of determine where to go with these investments. So I think you need to be really careful and proceed with caution. LIFW, another one that's come back down and starting to do a dead cap bounce up 36%. Put them on your radar, put them on your watch list. They did have some news today, so that's why they're popping. Here's FRBN up 58%, another one to put on your radar and put on your watch list. You can see very volatile shot up, came back down and now shooting up again. So this is one that's been extremely volatile over the last week. Put on your radar, put on your watch list, up 58% on the day. All right, let's see what else is moving here. SECO up 33%. You can see here, this is the five-day chart. You can see that it's come down and now starting to make its move up. SECO, one that's now at $1, so up 33% on the day. Definitely want to put on your radar and put on your watch list. On the one hour, it is in a cell zone. So I would be careful with buying this here up 33%. Here's PXMD. Take a look at the one year. You can see another one that's come down. We've been finding this trend all year with these small caps.  So very difficult to decide where to go with this. These things come down from multiple dollars to pennies, up 30% on the day. Definitely want to put on your radar and put on your watches. BPMC, this is a higher price stock of $57, up 29%. So definitely one that I think you need to be watching. The yearly chart, you see they've been higher. They hit a bottom and now the bounce. So the RSI still says it's got room. So this could go higher.  So definitely want to watch BPMC up 29%. Here's EDR, Endeavor Group Holdings. Big day today up 24%. So they've been coming down, hit a bottom and then bounced. So I like these types of trades. Definitely want to watch Endeavor EDR, put them on your radar, put on your watches, up 24% on the day. Here's ELIQ, penny stock came down starting to do a dead cap bounce. So you could see this was over 10 bucks and now it's at 83 cents and having a nice day today, up 23% of the day here. Definitely want to put on your radar and put on your watches. Here's GMM, currently up 22%. Looking at the one-year chart, you could see this thing is actually just rising up. Very, very bullish. This is a momentum trade. Put them on your radar and put them on your watches. MICS up 16% on the day. Look at the one-year chart and you could see another one that's come down and doing a dead cap bounce under a dollar. So definitely want to watch. It's been much higher and coming up off a bottom. So MICS, put them on your radar and put them on your watches. Here's SPLY, I brought you this IPO, pre-IPO. These guys have done extremely well. They did shoot up to a high of 37. It's come back down and they had some news today. Let's take a look at the news. Safe Supply Streaming Company and they're waiting for their US and Frankfurt listing. We'll let you know as soon as that happens. Announces the appointment of Ronan Levy as president. So we've actually interviewed Ronan Levy twice on the Rich TV Live podcast and he was on the board. Now they've appointed him as the president of the company. So this is big news. Levy is a pioneer in the cannabis and psychedelics industry. Brings over 15 years of capital markets and legal experience to Safe Supply. And you can see here the symbol is SPLY on the Canadian Securities Exchange. So that's the big news for SPLY and they are up 2% on the news so far today. So you can see that this has been a little bit higher, came back down, went back up and now it's just sitting right around 19 cents and up 2% on the day. Now there's a lot of companies that have been reporting financials recently and I think it's very interesting to show you what's going on. I'll just quickly show you what's going on with Bitcoin. Obviously they've had a huge run. They are doing a little bit of a pullback today. So a lot of investors are selling and taking their profits.  So a lot of pullbacks and stocks. Amazon, I really like Amazon. I bought them at about $80 last year, sold them this year at around 110. They went to a high 140 plus. Now they're starting to go back down. If I can get Amazon back under 100 again, I will be a buyer. So I'll let you know whether or not I positioned myself in Amazon. Tesla also selling off, I like Tesla under 200. If they get under that 200 or even the 150 mark, I will definitely be a buyer. So watching Tesla drop and definitely looking for an entry there in Tesla. Google, another one that I sold this year, bought it last year, sold it this year, bought it under 100. I think if it goes back under 100, I'd be a buyer. It's at 122 right now and definitely selling off. I still think they had a good quarter. If they can get back under 100, I will be a buyer for sure. Apple, another one that I sold this year, took my profits. If I can get this under 150, I'll be a buyer under 150. But I think a lot of these are starting to sell off after going up all year. So definitely, hopefully they go lower so that we can position ourselves in these great companies. Microsoft, another one that just had a strong report. They're also getting heavily into AI down 3% of the day. This has been a great chart all year. If I can get into this quality company, I would love to, but I like to get it under 250 if I could. I don't know if it goes there, but if it does, I'll be a buyer. Meta, another one that's had a crazy strong year, been going up all year long, absolutely on fire. If I can get this under 200, I would definitely be a buyer. I'm not sure if it gets that low, but they had a good quarter and they're selling off. So I think a lot of these stocks have gone up too much. Investors are now selling, taking their profits, waiting for these to dip lower where they can buy them again. And that's exactly what I would be doing. I would love to get into Meta under 200. So that's kind of my idea with these stocks, quality companies that are just dipped by opportunities, but I think they could go lower. So I'll be watching these closely for entry opportunities. Thank you for watching the Rich TV Live podcast. I'm your host of the most. If you're not winning, you're probably not watching. We bring you the winners, CO interviews, breaking news, trending topics. And we bring it to you first. Hope you have a great day. Happy Thursday to you all. I'll be back on Friday. I'm out. Peace. Oh, real quickly, let me just show you what's going on in the market. Red day in the market, Dow Jones in the red, S&P 500 in the red, Nasdaq in the red, oil in the red, gold close to 2000. That's bullish for gold and the VIX in the green as the markets in the red. So overall red day in the markets. It's been like that all week. I'll see you guys soon. Peace.


Welcome, this is Melissa Arnold with Stock Swish. I'm reviewing UAL, which was a Stock Swish show play of the day today in the trading room. Nice trade, just happened to remember this. I was really scanning a lot today to find something to trade. Let's look at the market here right now. Market failed today in a gap up. I called it, but we're in such a tight range here now. Longs are scared to go long. Shorts are scared to hold. Everybody's waiting for something to happen. So we look for selective things here to do and that's really all that we can do. Oops, here we go. Anyways, this closed here, this cap down fell. It was a gap that was news. Let me blow this up. And this was a nice little one. I did say today, I think this is going to 35. It did get all the way down. Low of the day was 34.77. I don't hold trades all day. We like to do day trades in and out fast in the morning. That's what we did. And again, call this, it was a nice one. Got the drop, boom. We did have a good exit on this. We didn't get a whole dollar out of it, but we got a good amount. I mean, it was, I think it was like 70 some cents or something like that. That's good. That's a good train. And the stop was 60 cents. So one hour, take it, be done, get out, done for the day. Market's been very choppy. You've got to find specific things to do. Let's look at AAL because that was with this in the same sector. Yeah, this is lower too. I mean, these things are, these things look really, oops, I keep doing it. These things really look really good actually to go lower, but you have to be patient right now to see where the market goes. Quite frankly, what I look at doing in the room every morning is just the fast trades. So we ran in out of this in a couple of minutes. We got the perfect entry, got the drop, got out, done. This did continue. I said that it's probably gonna go to 35 and then it actually went further. So nice move today in this. We'll see where this goes tomorrow. I hope we get something great tomorrow morning to close out the weekend Friday going into the next week, which is probably gonna be slow towards the end of next week because of the July 4th holiday. Remember the markets closed Monday, July 4th. So it could be busy tomorrow and it could be busy at the beginning of next week. So I'm gonna be very selective with what we do. The burning season starts in the middle of July. Can't wait for that after the July 4th holiday. If you're interested in signing up for the Golden Gate course, the class for June is actually this weekend. So the deadline's tomorrow. You can't mess around if you wanna sign up to get in. It's the 25th and 26th, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Eastern time. If you're interested, email me at melissathestockswish.com. If you have any questions, email me too. Nice trade today in UAL, nice short. Have a good day, everyone.


Hey there, welcome to react holiday day 13 So excited today, we're going to talk about something that is a little bit different but very important and we're going to talk about concurrent mode and we're It's kind of hard for me to explain what exactly concurrent mode is But it's a slightly different way of rendering what you've given react now unless you have a Just mega-performant react app already You might not be able to see some of the the differences right away But it is helpful to know kind of what some of those core differences are as they apply to suspense Which is what we're learning about now. So I did want to cover it and Just give you an opportunity to see what it will do for us This is not going to be just kind of one video on this some probably be at least two Maybe three or four So we're just going to try to tackle this one piece at a time And let's dive in So first of all it is today today is day 13. So we'll change that up now When we hit refresh on this we can see just for a split second the looking for Pokemon, right? Now I would like to make that a little bit longer so that we can see the difference that Concurrent mode is going to give us so I'm going to add a dependency This is not something that you'll regularly want to add to your app. It's just something for Demonstration purposes, but it's called sleep promise Now we're going to use sleep promise to Make our resources load slower Again, this is just so we can see what's happening and see the difference that concurrent mode is going to make in suspense So we're going to import a sleep from sleep promise and After that we will call Add it into our chain another then Sleep and we'll see how 500 feels We might have to reload this Okay, 500 still feels a little fast Let's make it 750 Okay, that that seems decent enough for us to kind of get a sense of what's happening So we're waiting now 750 milliseconds at least for this promise to fully resolve and for the app to render the list That is good for our purposes Now what I want to talk about next is Right here. So at the very root of our application, we're rendering using the react dom render method and This is our old faithful friend. We've been using this for a very long time I think it changed a little bit around version 13 or 14 maybe and you know moving into react dom versus just on react and It will likely change again. So We will be using in this To opt into concurrent mode. This is the regular mode that it's always been the default mode or sync mode or whatever it ends up being called But we can opt into concurrent mode Like so we'll use react dom create root And here is where we will put our elements So we'll delete that from there We'll say create root and then we'll call render on that with the application slightly different I'm instead of just calling render and giving both arguments. We're going to call create root to set up our root which is just this and Then we'll call render on that and give it the component Here, okay. That's just because I was changing things. So let's refresh that and it should go away Cool now you might notice a slight difference. So let me render that again Sticks wait for a lot longer and Then it renders the whole thing. So we don't see the loading state at all, which is fascinating. So let me Let's test that out. Let's see. We can make it last even longer. This will be up to almost four seconds and see what happens So now we're waiting a really long time But when the page loads all of that data is already there We don't see the locating Pokemon or loading Pokemon or whatever it is Now that we're in concurrent mode This suspense component actually gains some capabilities, which is really interesting By default now it is not going to render anything until That stuff that all this data is resolved that resource has resolved We have a new prop though in concurrent mode on the suspense component that we can use to Basically opt out of that default behavior waiting for the data So that is called max duration An interesting thing about max duration in default mode or sync mode is that effectively it defaults to zero So if we want the behavior that we had before we can just put max duration zero And there you see for 750 milliseconds We see that loading Pokemon we see the rest of this document loading Pokemon and tell the list comes in and then it fills in But we don't have to stick with zero So if we wanted to we could put this up to if we put this up this threshold of max duration past a second Then it would wait one second Before before rendering of showing the page in which case that 750 milliseconds that we're delaying has already passed and We will never see that spinner. So where does this come into play? When we had it at zero or When we had it in default mode there was a split second where we were showing loading Pokemon and it might be hard to see on YouTube but Even when we didn't have this sleep in here Just the latency of making that request takes a split second and you see that loader now That's not an ideal experience, especially since It might take 300 milliseconds for a user to even interpret that they're waiting for anything to load. So We can put this at like 250 milliseconds and you can see the data comes back quickly But it's not under our it comes back faster than our threshold So we don't see the loading We just see Pokemon come in because it's faster than our threshold So that is what you get with concurrent mode You get this additional prop that you can use on suspense. I'm called max duration Which allows you to control in a very fine-grained way How the user experiences loading states and this is really the magic that the react team has been building up to in the fiber architecture in async concurrent rendering mode and Suspense so this is a really powerful thing Tomorrow we'll see how we can even split things so that we can have fine-grained control over every request But today I'm explore that it's a pretty simple transformation for the most part basically you just have to change this up a little bit to use create root and render on that and Use suspense to play around with that and again if you want you can use the sleep promise package to Give you a few extra milliseconds to actually see what changes are taking place I hope that's helpful. This is very exciting as a UI developer. I'm just ecstatic about this I think this is gonna really improve the experiences that we ship to users and I think it will for you, too So have fun hit me up with any questions and I'll see you tomorrow


I wish I could give you the classic, this happened to a friend of a friend of mine. I honestly truly do. Then I could make it a lot less gruesome in my head than it really was. Then I could doubt it like the rest of you, because even though this happened to me, even though there were witnesses, sometimes I'm not quite sure I believe it myself. It's the wells of my now four year old daughter at night, that remind me that it did, indeed, happen. Katie had just turned three a couple of weeks before the incident. One thing I loved to do was take her to the theater every few Saturday morning, for a kids movie presentation. It went from old classics, like Snow White to recent Pixar movies. It was fun and enjoyable, and that way Katie mingled with other kids her age, who loved the same movies. At the time, Katie was literally obsessed with anything related to Toy Story. We had all three movies on DVDs, which she watched religiously. Thank God I loved those movies too, because you can get sick of watching the same thing a minimum of five times a day, let me tell you. And also had Woody, Buzz and Jessie dolls, which she loved to sleep with. She was afraid of trucks by the time she turned two, so I talked her to pull the strings on either Jessie or Woody, to scare the bad trucks away in the middle of the night. Honestly, these dolls were a blessing. So when I found out Toy Story 3 was being shown at the kids theater, I jumped on the occasion. Even though Katie had seen it countless times before, there was nothing like watching it on the big screen, and I knew she'd be ecstatic. I invited my friend John to see the movie, and he accepted. The showing was supposed to start at 8am, but it didn't start until 9. It wasn't so bad, since the kids were having fun together. Some parents left, frustrated, but I stuck around, as did about half a dozen other mothers and one father with their kids. The theater employee apologized, and offered us free candy. All good. Who refuses free candy? I'll go into the cliche of stories like this, and say that the movie started normally, because well, it did. The intro was the part Katie liked the most, where Woody and Jessie chase the train, and Buzz saves Woody at the last minute. Actually, nothing off happened for most of the showing. Once in a while, it would glitch, where the image would freeze for a second, and then fast forward to catch back with the sound. While I noticed it, the kids didn't care, as long as they got to see their heroes in jumbo size. Mirroring the end, is when things got strange. It didn't seem off at first, but I would soon find out, as every other family in the theater would. There's a point in the movie, where Woody and the toys end up at the dump, after lots of managed to drag Woody into a dumpster, and the garbage truck picks them up. The little pizza planet aliens get taken away by one of the trucks in the dump, and then Woody and his friends are carried onto a conveyor belt. The moment they hit the belt, the screen flickered, and the sound jammed on a constant loop, with the toys screaming when they fell. And then we got to look at the well-known blue screen of death, with that awful screaming sound, going on and on like a broken record. I always found the loopy, jumpy sound, that comes with a blue screen of death disturbing. Hell, I always thought a scratchy record or CD-teeth chatter I neary. Maybe it's because I used to have a computer, that crashed on me every half hour, and kill my files. It made me nervous, but when John and the father burst into a mocking laughter, I added a nervous laugh too. The kids were confused, but for those who had just enough knowledge of computers, it was really funny. I have another friend, who worked at this theater, and he quit for another job, around the time computers replaced people in the cabins, projecting the films. I guess nothing will ever replace a good old human being. When nobody came to check on us, John got up, and left to ask someone to turn that thing off or restart it. Katie didn't seem phased by this, and shrugged it off, waiting patiently. She was always pretty smart and mature, knowing she could watch it at home anyway.  It wasn't constant, that screaming sound, you see? It lowered to a mere whisper, and became loud enough to make my head buzz. At some point, Katie gave me a worried look, as she clasped her hands over her ears. Before I made the final decision to leave however, the screen went black, and an employee returned with John and a flashlight, apologizing and letting us know they would resume the movie shortly. Apparently they had been having equipment problems all morning. Shortly after the projector came back to life, the movie resumed a few minutes prior to the crash, only to crash at that very same spot a second time. Blue screen of death, again. By then, John and I were laughing. Get me wrong, we only paid a $5 fee for entrance, but this was getting ridiculous. Seriously? John explained. This time, no one had to go get any employee. The screen flickered, and the movie started where it left off, almost immediately with a loud click coming from the cabin up behind me. It reminded me of a gun, as it clicked the safety off, and I couldn't help but look up at the beam of light. Might have been an employee kicking the machine back in gear for all I knew. As long as it worked, I wasn't going to complain but come this point, another mishap and I was gone. Watching it at home was a whole lot less troublesome. The movie seemed fine come this point, except for the sound like someone had put a pillow over the speakers to muffle it. Something else was odd, but I didn't notice what it was, until Lotso betrayed the toys by not pressing the stock button of the belt, and let them fall in the incinerator. It was their voices. Their voices were different. Not by a whole lot. Maybe the kids didn't notice, but I did, and I know John did too, because we exchanged curious glances. They were similar, but Woody for example, clearly wasn't voiced by Tom Hanks anymore. It's around that time that I felt something was really wrong. My stomach clenched painfully, and I felt my heart beat the drumroll. There was no reason for it. I had no explanation for the voices being different. Only the differences didn't just end there.  It keeps you on edge the first time, but once you've seen it, you know better. Except I didn't know better anymore. The animation was fluid, but by now it wasn't right. Have you ever watched those old 1930s cartoons like Mickey Mouse or Betty Boop, where everything always moves and never stops? A few years later, they figured out that it was more natural to have stop animations, because that's how we work. We don't notice it, but we stop between motions. Grab a cup of coffee, stop. Bring it to lips, stop. Chug it down, stop. Put it back down, stop. It's subtle, but it made all the difference in animation when they realized that, and things started looking a whole lot less psychedelic from that moment on. Well, the animation on the big screen just didn't stop moving, like those old vintage cartoons. There was no stopping in between actions and motions, like they sort of danced around everything in some way or another. And let me tell you, if you thought it looked psychedelic with traditional hand-drawn animation, computer animation, if primitive, makes it look twice as disturbing, that clearly was not like the movie I had at home, and it wasn't like the rest of the movie we watched to this point either. I noted John was looking at me again, and I shrugged. I didn't have any more of an explanation than he did. I suppose I remain seated out of gross curiosity. As the saying goes, it's like watching a train wreck, and no matter how horrible it is, you just can't look away. There was none of the dramatic music I was used to hearing. In fact, there was no music at all, but only the sounds of fire crackling. Maybe it just wasn't necessary. Imagery was enough. Already I felt a lump in my throat just watching the animation. I couldn't move, nailed to my seat. The claws saving the toys never came down. There was no heavenly light before a last-minute rescue. There was no rescue, however. The toys screamed, and screamed, and screamed a near-shattering screech that would ring in my hand for days to come and would wait me in the middle of the night. The toys held hands, which shrank as their plastic melted into a thick flash-colored goo. I remember Woody's face the most because this is what the screen mainly focused on as they advanced toward the fire rapid in the middle.  His lips stretching to wretched lengths until his whole jaw melted off at the hinges, leaving long, thick liquid streaks of burning plastic behind. I was reminded of the way cheese strings went warm and melted, which forced a completely insane bout of laughter out of me. Cheese and plastic.  The Benchy-like screeching from Woody escalated even more, and with the speakers all around us, it came from everywhere at once.  John screamed. My stomach cramped as despair ripped through me, and I thought I would collapse right there. I couldn't move, glued to my seat. Woody's eyes rolled down his cheeks, like they were painted on, but were real globes of gelatinous substance which burst like egg yolks, leaving gaping holes in place. Their eyes, all of their eyes, were the only thing that acted as real eyes might, not like plastic or fabric. Later I realized why eyes are the mirror of the soul. Eyes, even if they look painted, are always real. Always, and so as they exploded into a liquid state, so did their souls, burning in the fiery pits of hell. It's silly to think that way of a cartoon character, but that's the only explanation I found for the difference. I'm not sure it makes me feel any better to think that way. Actually, it just makes me feel worse.  It crackled like some demonic laughter, burst into sparks, convulsing back, except he didn't go far, because his hands were fused with slinky and buzzes' hands. The anguished screaming was like the sound of pure hell, like something from a demon. The voices, though rung, had sounded human until now. I felt a sharp cramp in my hands because I had been holding onto the arms of my seat, as though they were my lifeline, and in some way, they were. The action kept me grounded, because a part of me feared I'd end up in that pit and melt off, as well if I didn't keep some of myself in this reality. Most of the footage focused on Woody, but you got a glimpse of the others, too. Toys like Buzz Rex and Jesse, toys that were made exclusively of plastic, melted quickly in a disturbingly colorful goo. There was no blood, however. Just plastic melting, molding itself off and bursting into flames. It was horrible and graphic. Maybe it was because you get to know these characters so well that you feel them alive, despite the fact that they are toys or cartoons. You don't need blood and organs spilled. You just need to see their suffering, so deep you feel it, too. I even felt my skin start to prick and burn in response. I should have gotten out sooner, take Katie with me to spare her. It was a mistake on my part, not, too.  The screeching turned to whales. I was able to come out of my trance long enough to realize that the sound of crying and screaming did not come from the speakers anymore, but the people around me, many of them being kids. There was nothing, but the sound of the crackling fire from the pit around us now. Half of the toys were dead, but the children and adults alike, myself included, were the ones screaming and weeping. Buzz's back burst open, with sparks coming out. With a sudden burst of strength, I grabbed Katie in my arms and ran out of the theater. I didn't look back, though I could now smell the burning plastic. It wasn't just stuck in my nose, it clung to my clothes and my skin, too. I thought I heard someone vomit behind me. I'm surprised I didn't. I noted a father with his crying son and daughter had scarred past me. Then again he might have been smarter than me and left before I did. I noticed that John was noted behind me, but that does not matter at this point. The father was yelling at the employee who stood giving tickets. That poor kid didn't seem to get what he was saying. He seemed overwhelmed by the screaming and crying. Soon enough, the small crowd of parents were surrounding him. Things started getting violent and the kid had to escape. I just stood there with Katie, screaming in my arms, half hearing her, still in shock. I felt lost. I didn't know what to do or where to go. Should I go home? Join the mob of angry parents and wailing children. Go to the police. What? My feet moved on their own and I let my instincts take over. The door. I was leaving. It was better for Katie anyway to keep her away from this place. I felt empty and the smell of burnt plastic seemed even stronger as I stepped outside. When a hand gripped my arm, I jumped and yelped. It was the father with his child in his arms, sobbing in his shoulder. It turned out that his name was Jeremy. We exchanged phone numbers after he told me he would see it to get an explanation for what happened. The rest of the day did not go well. I took two baths with Katie, but the horrific death stench wouldn't leave. Eventually she stopped crying and fell asleep out of pure exhaustion. As for me, even though I was completely off, even though I felt like I could fall asleep too, I couldn't. Every time I closed my eyes, I saw the life like eyes of Woody slip down his cheeks and burst or his wide smile and jaw hanging loose until it crashed on his lap. Just before my husband came home from work, I got a call from Jeremy. I remember slumping on my chair as he spoke and a new set of hot tears streamed down my cheeks. My head hurts and my eyes felt burned. I thought they might pop right out too. Jeremy said that the theater's management took the remaining few parents to see the computer that handled the projection of the movie. Sure enough, they found a virus stored in there which streamed a homemade version of the movie. But the streaming led to nowhere. Jeremy's job was to handle computers so he was able to look through it for those who couldn't. He tried tracing back where the streaming had come from and the virus, but there was no lead to follow. Either the prankster was an employee and had set up the virus from the computer itself, had covered his tracks very well or something was very, very wrong with this picture. I preferred a rational explanation to something of outer nature so I opted to believe it was an employee who had access to the computer. Either way, other than the corrupted files the virus had left behind, there was no evidence of the disturbing footage we'd watched. It was gone. That was a little more than a year ago. Anything related to Toy Story has left my house. My husband wants to believe us, but I can tell he's skeptical. He says someone had to animate the thing and people had to act out the voices. That takes a lot of dedication because while the animation was constantly moving, the quality of the image and characters was as good as the original movies. He says that it's one hell of an effort to put into a one-time prank. He's right though. I never heard of anything of the sort again. You'd think it would have come out if it had. I checked. And Jeremy did too. There's no records of anything like it anywhere. Jeremy even tried to contact Disney and Pixar, but they never returned his calls or emails, as expected. The theater's closed now. I think someone sued them over what happened, but all the news mentioned was bankruptcy. It's been a week after the incident. I got an email from John. He decided to stay and record the ending of the movie for evidence. He told me that the final scene showed the toys, either melted or still melting, getting engulfed by the flames. Then it cut to Lotso looking down with a wide smile and started to laugh, and the scene cut to black with Lotso's echoing laughter. He said that he wished he could illogically jump into the screen and throw Lotso into the burning pits of fire and slowly watch him burn to death. To this day, I still get a whiff of burning plastic once in a while when Katie screams at night, suffering from those horrible nightmares.