Armen Sarkissian: Rapid changes will take place also in our everyday life

President Armen Sarkissian, who is in the United Arab Emirates on official visit, participated at the reception offered for the heads of delegations participating to the major Abu Dhabi Sustainable Week International Forum where he made a statement.

President Sarkissian thanked the authorities of the United Arab Emirates and the government for the invitation and opportunity to participate at the Forum.

President Armen Sarkissian said in his statement:

“We all realize that we are living in the 21st century – a century which is very special, in which the world is interconnected, where things are happening with the speed of light. This is a totally different world.

I would like to briefly speak about a thing or two. The first is globalization. There is an opinion that today globalization has stopped. I cannot agree with that. Globalization is not a macroprocess any more, it has become a microprocess. Peoples, trade, relations and ties, information in the current world are so interconnected that globalization will go on and will gain even a greater speed.

Second, we are talking about an industrial revolution, the fourth industrial revolution. What we’ll have will be a rapid or a steadfast revolution because it will take place in science, in technologies and trade areas, in biology, as well as in our behavior.

Rapid revolutions will take place also in our everyday life. They are taking place in the world even now, and Armenia is one example. Nearly one year ago, on April 9, I became President of the Republic of Armenia. The Revolution started days before that; it started with 5 individuals that later became100, 500, 1000, 5000… In two weeks, we had a revolution which united hundreds of thousands. All this was not organized; it was not carried out by a political force. It was a “Facebook” revolution, a revolution of the 21st century. It means that rapid revolutions are taking place also in the political life. The world is becoming more and more non-classical by day.
I would like to take the example of quantum physics. One hundred years ago, physicists understood everything that was going on in the world and were able to explain everything. But gradually there appeared phenomena which they couldn’t explain because the laws of classical physics were not working any more, the logic of classical physics didn’t work. All this went on until one of the giants – Albert Einstein created a theory called the behavior of elementary particles which was not classical at all.

In classical physics, for particles to move from point A to point B it is necessary to cover a certain distance. But in quantum physics or in physics of small particles, according to the theory of probability, could be at any place. Thus, this is a totally different way to look at the natural world.

In the 21st century we are entering the period of global risks and the period of quantum behavior of politics. Social and political events in the 21st century will have a totally different behavior. Technologies of behavior of global risks, pandemics, or terrorist acts will differ from those of the 21st century. Risks appearing in New York of Washington can cause great changes all over the world. People may lose billions of dollars.

Consequently, if risks are of a quantum nature, solutions should be of a quantum nature too. So, welcome to the 21st century in which everyone should think differently, everyone needs to be creative, as well as quantum…

I would like to stop here since these are just excerpts from my book which I am about to finish. It will be published in spring and will be titled Quantum Behavior of Global Risks".