https://www.scmp.com/rss/295761/feed Eric Stryson is managing director of the Global Institute For Tomorrow. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Eric Stryson Eric Stryson Artificial intelligence (AI) is eroding the very capabilities young professionals need to remain valuable in a machine-automated era. That is the real challenge facing graduates entering the workforce. It is not simply a case of AI destroying jobs – though it is – but that it is undermining our cognitive and interpersonal skills. The numbers are starting to confirm what we suspected. Hong Kong graduates in 2025 found 55 per cent fewer job opportunities than the year before. Over 12 per cent of... https://www.scmp.com/opinion/world-opinion/article/3343333/how-recent-graduates-entering-job-market-can-outperform-ai?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/opinion/world-opinion/article/3343333/how-recent-graduates-entering-job-market-can-outperform-ai?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 15 Feb 2026 01:30:08 +0000 This month, OpenAI released a new artificial intelligence (AI) model that it says can reason like a person to solve complex problems. It will continue to improve. When the smartest “person” in the company is a robot, predicting future professional norms and practices becomes like writing science fiction. While many rightfully worry about AI impacts on employment and equality, arguably the biggest transformations will be in education. A student entering the first grade today will emerge into a... https://www.scmp.com/opinion/hong-kong-opinion/article/3280183/schools-need-teach-about-tech-not-just-use-it-lessons?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/opinion/hong-kong-opinion/article/3280183/schools-need-teach-about-tech-not-just-use-it-lessons?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 29 Sep 2024 08:30:08 +0000 Is “business as usual” as bad as it sounds? Most CEOs in the Asia-Pacific think it’s worse. According to a recent PwC survey, 63 per cent believe their companies will no longer be viable in 10 years if they stayed on their current path. Only a radical mindset change will enable the business transformation they need. What is causing the concern? Climate-related regulation and the rise of generative artificial intelligence (AI) are among the biggest risks. But there are other drivers too:... https://www.scmp.com/opinion/hong-kong-opinion/article/3266692/reinvention-must-start-now-if-hong-kong-businesses-are-survive-change?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/opinion/hong-kong-opinion/article/3266692/reinvention-must-start-now-if-hong-kong-businesses-are-survive-change?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 19 Jun 2024 08:30:09 +0000 The ReThink HK conference last week was Hong Kong’s biggest business event for sustainable development. Many of the more than 500 speakers made reference to the recent flooding, further highlighting a changing climate and the need to reduce carbon emissions. Juxtaposed with extreme weather – of which there is no shortage this year – corporate ESG and sustainability-related commitments might sound more convincing. However, the fact we are so easily convinced, and that the business narrative on... https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3234948/climate-change-businesses-hot-air-over-sustainability-obscures-lack-real-progress?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3234948/climate-change-businesses-hot-air-over-sustainability-obscures-lack-real-progress?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 20 Sep 2023 07:30:09 +0000 The world needs new ways to pay for climate adaptation, and Hong Kong should lead the way. Dystopian headlines of extreme weather are becoming daily reminders of our urgent need to adjust to changing conditions. Last week, scientists released a dire report on melting Antarctic ice and abnormally high winter temperatures in the southern hemisphere. Societal adaptation to a changing climate includes retrofitting infrastructure, securing food systems, cooling or even relocating cities and more. It... https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3230937/why-hong-kong-could-be-answer-worlds-urgent-need-climate-finance?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3230937/why-hong-kong-could-be-answer-worlds-urgent-need-climate-finance?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 14 Aug 2023 07:45:08 +0000 Plastic waste is a unique problem for Hong Kong. It is not about the low recycling rate which, at just 14 per cent, is better than the 9 per cent world average but still far below what we need. It is not the finite capacity of landfills, or the plastic particles we consume in our air, water and seafood. The problem is that Hong Kong’s plastic waste is kept out of sight and out of mind. Waste management is so effective we hardly think about it. This is not to say that used plastic is collected,... https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3211461/how-plastic-can-be-fantastic-hong-kongs-innovation-and-technology-hub-ambitions?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3211461/how-plastic-can-be-fantastic-hong-kongs-innovation-and-technology-hub-ambitions?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 28 Feb 2023 00:15:12 +0000 From oyster farming to hi-tech clusters, the rural region of San Tin along the Hong Kong-Shenzhen border has gained fresh cachet for its proposed role in powering future economic growth. In her 2021 policy address, Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor made a bold suggestion that the futuristically named “San Tin technopole” could become the Hong Kong version of Silicon Valley. Synergies with Shenzhen, existing supply chains in the Greater Bay Area, access to mainland China and... https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3167088/better-silicon-valley-how-software-focus-can-drive-innovation-hong?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3167088/better-silicon-valley-how-software-focus-can-drive-innovation-hong?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 16 Feb 2022 06:30:19 +0000 Mental health is a concern in Hong Kong. The city scored a record low on one mental health index in 2020, while a University of Hong Kong survey in August that year found 75 per cent of respondents reporting signs of moderate to severe depression. Perhaps unsurprisingly, in one index this year, Hong Kong ranks among the worst cities for financial stress (8th) and social security (3rd). And one of the more insidious and commonly overlooked contributors to the mental health crisis is our addiction... https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3142223/regulate-use-digital-media-better-mental-health-hong-kong?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3142223/regulate-use-digital-media-better-mental-health-hong-kong?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 25 Jul 2021 01:15:14 +0000 More Americans have died from Covid-19 than during the entire Vietnam war, a grim milestone which coincided with Vietnam’s Liberation Day last week. For Vietnam, it is quite a different story. At the conclusion of the Resistance War Against America, as it is known in Vietnam, the country had lost, by some estimates, up to 3 million lives. Yet, 45 years later, Vietnam has managed to prevent even a single death from the coronavirus. Within days of the outbreak being confirmed in China, Vietnam’s... https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3082988/hong-kong-must-guard-against-overconfidence-and-parochialism?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3082988/hong-kong-must-guard-against-overconfidence-and-parochialism?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 06 May 2020 22:30:11 +0000 Last week, amid the commemorations for the establishment of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region on July 1, most of us in Hong Kong missed another significant but largely forgotten anniversary. Although 22 years seems now to be the limit to our historical remembrance, it was 175 years ago when China and America signed their first diplomatic treaty. History offers lessons for our turbulent times. The Treaty of Wanghia, signed on July 3, 1844 at the Kun Iam temple in Macau, granted... https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3017811/hong-kongs-fear-over-extradition-law-neither-unique-nor-new?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3017811/hong-kongs-fear-over-extradition-law-neither-unique-nor-new?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 09 Jul 2019 06:30:09 +0000 This week, the government’s Task Force on Land Supply launched a public consultation revealing 18 proposals on where it believes the best opportunities are to free up land for housing. The hope is that this “big debate”, as coined by the chief executive, will lead to societal consensus on what land is deemed acceptable to develop. The question of where to find land dominates the housing affordability discussion. But is the exclusive focus on land the most useful approach and are the right... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2143559/finding-sufficient-land-wont-solve-hong-kongs-housing-crisis?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2143559/finding-sufficient-land-wont-solve-hong-kongs-housing-crisis?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 27 Apr 2018 07:10:55 +0000 This week is Hong Kong FinTech Week. It will undoubtedly be hailed as another step towards realising the city’s vision of becoming an “international innovation hub”, as described in Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor’s policy address. Yet, if Hong Kong is to realise this ambition, it must look beyond finance. Lam also spoke about diversifying the economy, and entrepreneurs must embrace business models that are internationally relevant and serve the needs of the masses beyond our... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2117028/forget-us-and-europe-hong-kongs-entrepreneurs-need-look?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2117028/forget-us-and-europe-hong-kongs-entrepreneurs-need-look?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 27 Oct 2017 02:56:20 +0000 A decade ago, all the talk was about the digital divide leaving behind millions of poor people. Today, that has been replaced by a modern drug of choice for the masses - digital crack. Growing numbers of people are apparently addicted to electronic gadgets providing continuous, always-on media and communications that feed an insatiable desire for the next fix. Digital crack works the same way as crack cocaine. Each time we see a new message or alert, the brain gets a "hit" of a neurotransmitter... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1149512/overdosing-virtual-connections?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1149512/overdosing-virtual-connections?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 13 Feb 2013 16:00:00 +0000