DJURO KORUGA ON THE CHALLENGES OF THE FOURTH TECHNOLOGICAL REVOLUTION

The third session of the Megatrend Forum

The third session of the Megatrend Forum, an academic forum at our University dedicated to discussing current social and scientific challenges, talked about the fourth technological revolution and nanotechnology. The speaker was prof. Djuro Koruga, a world-renowned innovator and pioneer in nanotechnology and biomedical engineering.

In the largest hall of the Megatrend building in New Belgrade, the Amphitheater 1, which was filled almost to the last place, was initially greeted by prof. Prof. Dr. Miodrag Jevtic, Rector, and then the creative biography of a distinguished guest was sketched by Professors Dr. Slobodan Pajovic and Dr. Vojkan Zoric.

Rector Jevtic emphasized that our university, through its forum and other teaching and extracurricular activities, wants – in accordance with its social responsibility – to support efforts to discuss the challenges of further development transparently, publicly and democratically, and to accumulate educational, scientific and other problems are solved by working, learning, and moving the boundaries of knowledge. He recalled two previous sessions, the topics of which drew additional attention from the scientific and general public.

Judging by what Professor Pajovic and Zoric told the audience, Professor Koruga is one of the world’s pioneers in the application of new technologies in medicine and other areas of life. It is a visiting professor at the world’s most renowned universities in the US, UK, Japan, China, France, Finland, Korea, etc. Prof. dr. Koruga participates in the first World Conference on Nanotechnologies, held back in 1993. He is the author of a number of epochal patents and a large number of scientific papers published in prestigious world journals. He is the founder of the first nanolaboratory at Belgrade University, as well as the Chair of Biomedical Engineering. In addition to a number of other recognitions, in the past, 2018 was the winner of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) competition in competition from individuals and institutions from 70 countries.

In his lecture at the Megatrend Forum, prof. Koruga spoke in detail about the impact of the previous three technological revolutions and the fourth, which is on the quay. ” Human knowledge is the initial precondition for changes in the structural organization of technological revolutions, ” said Prof. Koruga, advocating a change in the angle of view of science, in which routine human labor is increasingly being replaced by machine. In addition to professional technological knowledge, the new scientific paradigm also requires an adequate social environment, which entails adequate economic and organizational support. Drawing on Leibniz’s view of human health, the writer concluded that it can be more easily preserved today with the help of the latest technical breakthroughs and aids. ” Medicine without technique is powerless, as is technique without medicine blind, ” said Prof. Koruga.

Our guest spoke about artificial intelligence, neural networks, symmetry as a basis for understanding nature, then the connections between art and technology, the merging of classical and quantum physics, space flights as the announcement of the fifth technological revolution, the systems of manipulation on the principle of atom per atom ”, about coded reality that is sometimes difficult to understand, and other interesting topics.

Prof. dr. Koruga also answered several challenging questions from Megatrend students and guests, including distinguished scientists and public workers, including academics Ljubisa Rakic (SANU) and Jovan Setajcic (ANURS).

Thanks to Professor Koruga at the lecture, Rector Jevtic handed him a thank-you note and an invitation for new meetings and talks on current social and scientific topics at the end of the panel.

Photo by M. Rajkovic Kaktus