At the Armenian Summit of Minds 2019, President Armen Sarkissian said about the meeting place: “It looks like an ark. But it is not the Noah’s Ark. It is an Armenian ark where people come to discuss how to save the world”. When the Armenian Summit of Minds 2020 was moved from June to October, he used the time to make Financial Times publish his idea to establish a “club of startup nations”. That interview motivated me to write the following lines.

In President Armen Sarkissian’s club of startup nations, high-tech symbolic buildings could function as Space-Age Armenian Arks for mobilizing the millions including children to discuss hard facts about global sustainability and sustainable development. From a mass of minds, a lot of energy can result, as from mass itself according to Einstein’s famous equation.

Many initiatives are taken to encourage and support startups working with various applications of new technologies, It is recognized that innovation is needed. However, incremental innovation receives more support than disruptive innovation. The latter is capable of making old businesses obsolete and precisely that is what we need to prevent a global disaster.