WHEN MACHINES STOPPED THE APPLAUSE

In a world racing toward automation, a single keynote cut through the noise like thunder in a glass dome. Before rows of scholars flown in from across Asia—NUS, Kyoto, HKUST, AIM— Joseph Plazo spoke not to impress, but to interrupt.---### His First Sentence Wasn’t Loud, But It Shook the Walls He didn’t offer promises. He offered paradox.