Visions for the Future: Boao 2018 produces some telling nuggets of wisdom

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The Boao Forum for Asia is fundamentally a platform for ideas. So we've gone back over the past four days, and dug up some of the brightest nuggets of wisdom for you.

Antonio Guterres UN Secretary General "We need to dramatically raise our ambition. And the good news is that technology is on our side."

Christine Lagarde IMF Managing Director "Two thirds of the world's robots are to be found in this region, predominantly Japan, (South) Korea, and China."

Shen Wei President & CEO, Vivo Telecommunications "AI will give smart phones a brain, to learn and think. And 5G will provide AI with a communication channel with much greater efficiency."

Yossi Vardi Israeli Entrepreneur & Investor "These things can be very good, but can also be very harmful as you saw."

Ellen Richey Vice Chairwoman, Visa "Blockchain as it exists today, is not sufficiently scalable nor is it sufficiently fast to carry the volume of transaction in real time."

Jack Ma Alibaba Group Co-founder "The most important solution is, you respect the data, you respect the security, you respect the privacy."

Dai Xianglong Former PBOC Governor "For the next 20 years, or even into the middle of the century, Asia will remain the fastest growing region in the world."

Carlos Gutierrez Former US Secretary of Commerce "It does not rely on the US or Europe. Asia is investing in Asia."

Ban Ki-moon Chairman of Board of Directors, Boao Forum for Asia "There is a saying 'no country is an island. You are not living on an island."

Jean-Pierre Raffarin Former French Prime Minister "Opening-up, opening-up and opening-up", "Reform and open-up is the strategy everywhere but the United States."

Li Daokui Tsinghua University Professor "Globalization will not be reversed, that's the main trend."