CEO Initiative 2019: A Conversation With IBM’s Ginny Rometty

The IBM CEO discusses what the future of automation will look like.

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... Here I am, revisiting Ginni (former IBM) and Allan (Fortune, I think he's still there) listening at 6:45 min where Ginni mentioned her newly coined term (at IBM, about 10 years prior), called "new collar." Do take a listen.

... It reminds me of Germany's apprenticeship and maybe a similar model in Japan, where Japan is famous for both (a) high-tech (machines, robotics, applied to all modern fields) and (b) low-tech (the most famous one, as chefs in 1, 000 star Japanese restaurants; as we learn about Japanese cuisines, everything is (about) perfection).

... This video is about five years old. Today, April 21st, 2025 (a Monday), AI is more prevalent and somewhat affordable to some (e.g. smartphones) if not pervasive (still being reign in by cybersecurity and by countries that don't want any bifurcations) but far from being full blown (e.g. AI-assistant enhancing-robotics are still a niche).

... Btw, about three weeks ago, I saw Ginni promoting on Youtube touching "relatively" on same topic but has now shifted to talking Singapore the Digital Island, where Fortune itself had covered in its magazine. So maybe Gini's trailer was about making that Fortune article comes alive and by also saying "come to Singapore."