Technology Works Best When Humans Add Structure with Kenchukwu (Kene) Nnakwue (Nigeria)

Technology is moving so fast that what feels “new” today can feel obsolete in months, and that pace can be thrilling or exhausting depending on where you sit. I sit down with Mr Kanakwe, a software engineer and lifelong problem-solver, to get grounded on what matters most as artificial intelligence and modern digital tools reshape work, learning, and everyday life.

We talk about technology as a practical solution, and why outcomes depend less on the tool and more on the structure around it: clear goals, good processes, and responsible use. Mr Kanakwe explains why AI often isn’t limited by intelligence but by organisation, and why experienced people can use AI to plan and build faster while beginners can get misled into “outsourcing” their thinking. We also dig into how schools and universities can teach AI and digital literacy early, with guard rules that keep curiosity high and misuse low.

From global online communities to the next frontier of bionic technologies and healthcare innovation, we explore what the near future may hold, including assistive medical devices and more human-integrated tech. We also name the darker edge: deepfakes, identity misuse, and the urgent need for stronger norms and laws that protect trust without crushing innovation.

If you enjoy thoughtful conversations on AI, responsible technology, software engineering, and the future of work and education, subscribe, share this with a friend, and leave a review. What’s the one rule you want society to agree on for AI?

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Transcript

Welcome And Why Technology Matters

Dr Ariel R King 0:45

Hello, and welcome to another episode of The Business of Life with Dr. King. Today we have a very special guest, Mr. Kanakwe. Welcome, sir.

Kir Kenchukwu (Kene) Nnakwue 0:56

Thank you very much, Dr. King. It's uh glad and happy to be on the session today. Thank you.

Dr Ariel R King 1:03

Thank you. Would you please introduce yourself to our audience?

Kir Kenchukwu (Kene) Nnakwue 1:08

Okay, so uh like it's the very or less German group. I mean stuff in the I have been in the space for quite a few years, and I focus on this like a solve very well uh question of problems. So the space, coordination, and sustainable platforms. So over can I become really interesting how this space is in areas like the material world, where the problems are more complex, but you practice like more being supplement. Yeah, thank you.

A Builder’s Path Into Software

Dr Ariel R King 1:51

So thank you so much. So uh today I understand that we're going to be talking about the subject of technology. Would you please be so kind to to give us uh just a brief, I guess, update of what we're going to be talking about with technology and why this is such an important subject for us?

Kir Kenchukwu (Kene) Nnakwue 2:07

Oh well, it's just about the technology about the human um civilization being trend. So I mean I think that that's how it's like I can speak about it.

Dr Ariel R King 2:21

Wonderful. Okay, well, let's get started. Tell us more about this issue on technology.

Kir Kenchukwu (Kene) Nnakwue 2:28

Okay, so at the moment, if you look at the demand civilization, every measurement has a technology from agricultural, so we just try and so what technology really does is explain the probability, it allows us to be more standard scale. So, but I think most of them overlooked is that technology is solution, it's how we apply it to them. Or I mean it's basically the same way or mass way because I have the value space for us as serious.

Dr Ariel R King 3:06

I love that, and I understand that you've seen that you've been you've been doing this even as a software programmer for 10 years. So it's a very, very long time. Miyaz, what really got you interested in starting? I'm just really curious about that.

Kir Kenchukwu (Kene) Nnakwue 3:19

Yeah, that's what we see.

Dr Ariel R King 3:22

What what why did you get interested in this area and and how why did you start in this area? I mean, I'm curious how did you start?

Kir Kenchukwu (Kene) Nnakwue 3:31

Yeah, um, I have to do a little bit uh descriptive here. So um I think it started from children. I used to be a very positive child. Um, I would just go around trying to be my own thing, like playing the toys and all that. I could fix some. I pick up things and fix the own television. Yeah, basically things do I think. So then I used to be called in general, like my parents, my siblings, and people around me because I was just handy doing so. When I entered the university, I I I would actually tell consistently and then I go ahead. I just started serious all those things. I really solving problems basically from myself. It's what we solve in the L. You look at problems, you break them down, then try to solve the problems. So it's it's just like bonds with something like I just I just love interest and happy to talk about this thing as well. I guess that's what I'll do.

Dr Ariel R King 4:39

That's an amazing talent to have. I love the fact that you're such a curious person, and even in childhood, you decided that uh this is how how you would contribute to the world. You know, I'm wondering with everything that's coming out with the new technologies, and I'm talking about the new technologies that we use, new technologies for healthcare and also with artificial intelligence. Can you tell us your views about what's on the horizon for the future?

AI Speed And The Need For Structure

Kir Kenchukwu (Kene) Nnakwue 5:06

Okay, um, I'll focus on AI because you know AI is not extremely at the moment. So we are seeing AI, yeah, it's the continuation of the pattern knowledge always can technology just identify with a human capability. Uh, one difference now in the scale and speed out each of things, especially around the stream with the mission. But I think the more important question is what can AIDS or where you apply because in many cases the real problem isn't a lack of intelligence, it's just a lack of structure. So um AI becomes most vulnerable and building ecosystems that receive coordination classes, that's like the most interesting way to say that once again.

Dr Ariel R King 6:10

There are so many people that are using artificial intelligence, and one of the issues for young people it seems that or or people are starting to grapple with, even within universities and schools and so on and so forth, even within some jobs, is that we're all learning to use AI, but instead of using it in a way that enhances our thought, many people are using it as a way not to think. What do you think about that?

Kir Kenchukwu (Kene) Nnakwue 6:37

Yeah, so I was coming for the friends and last week. So he he mentioned something about how the competition AI is supposed to replace their lack of independence. But no, AI is it's either a files you already exist, the intelligence uh level, like let's say you are actually intelligent, you know how to do this, and then uh for instance, I I write programs and I know how to structure and do them in possibly a week or two. But usually AI can sit down, draw my plan to structure it, and within hours already they are still to someone giving if you give AI to someone who is literally not experienced in that particular field, then this kind of way to soil, you just end up wasting topics and you pay for your stepping or you exhaust fee and restrict how you ever see everything.

Dr Ariel R King 7:40

What they're doing for may I ask, do you think that that it should be I won't say mandatory, but that it should be strongly encouraged to start to learn about AI and how to use it in a positive way when children start to read? Or how do you think we should start integrating this into society?

Kir Kenchukwu (Kene) Nnakwue 8:03

Okay, at the moment, it is something I would encourage reads to include in our students. I think, for instance, um in the past, there are so many things we could do. Um we could do them, but I mean because they are we can easily do them at the moment, and we trying to bring to the old ways of doing things is still going to help us. I mean, currently the way we are doing, so we should do that, but we should have guard rules, like things protected and things guided us in direction that we don't misuse it at any particular level. We should just have, like I said, I said guard rules so that we don't deviate from the actual intention of using the IE process.

Dr Ariel R King 8:53

Thank you for that. And and can I ask for someone like yourself who's a software engineer, but also you've just been solving problems for years when it comes to technology? Is there an international community? Do you usually have discourse, speak with the international community? Are there people that you get to work with all over the world? And if so, can you tell us more about that?

Kir Kenchukwu (Kene) Nnakwue 9:15

Well, I can't speak for sure. Aside the um southern and green rights programs, I also really need to inheritance across these councils, which are Lebanon. Umbres with about four or five different countries, which try to have Leblian inheritance and how happens to work with people across different countries in Asia, in the UK, Europe, and uh in the United States. So I think I don't know. I'm trying to work with people, and then on the space, then that's where I'm mostly active on rather than post quality time, but I'll try to engage in activities or in groups where technology is being discussed. Well, I don't have any particular committee on calling the activities and you know it's crossing the activities at the moment.

Dr Ariel R King 10:12

Okay, and I asked that because it just seems to me that the world is getting smaller, and young professional people are getting to know each other in various spaces, either online or in in professional groups and so on and so forth. And it just seems like the world is more connected. Have you found that the world is more connected and even more importantly, more connected in your particular field?

Kir Kenchukwu (Kene) Nnakwue 10:34

Yeah, of course. Yeah, I've really met amazing people that without technology and technology have a time today. I it might not be it might be very almost impossible for you to have them there. But thanks to technology, I've been able to I mean very amazing people. I've got a lot of um some contacts on LinkedIn because I mean if I have to do that analytical committee, I'm not sure I would be able to because I mean so but it needs to be a platform that's technology provides us that we're able to get access to well done and each or be able to get successful. Yeah.

Dr Ariel R King 11:14

And can I ask you, what do you see? What do you see ahead of us for the future when it comes to all kinds of technology? I know that several companies said that they're going to be rolling out something different and something new. I know just for myself as someone who we called on the sixth floor, you know, in the sixth decade. I remember going through all types of technology and having to adapt quite quickly. And then for that, after I adapt, the technology is obsolete. So I'm I'm just I'm just wondering what what do you see in the future? Do you see a way for even people like myself that are not necessarily young and have technology at our hands all the time adapting to the new technologies?

Learning AI Early With Guardrails

Kir Kenchukwu (Kene) Nnakwue 12:03

Okay, um, when you're saying something about it in your age, you just I'm not I'll bring me something like past 30-15 years to compare to I mean the way technology is evolving these days. So I mean, it could be strong the next complexity and in the next three months or six months, it's just it's just I think that it's just don't really be the thing is get lost already. So basically, I think it's just continuous learning. Anybody can pick it up at the moment because everybody's like I would say everybody, but the majority of the population is getting much more uh inclined towards the learning. So I feel like you just basically try to get your hands on the new stuff and then 10 years ago, there are so many things we do right now. We still write these tales, HTML, and all that. I mean, you probably know it's kind of having some tools and you know, many of us, 15 years ago basically. We've had some so many history writes there are like when you have to build a website, you have to write a physical style system to add functionality. That was that was like what we learned in the beginning, like the early days of our and when I started speaking about the web design, for instance. Now, along the line, we saw that made it easier like a write in diverse trees, just get it out there, and all that things keep on coming and coming, and now we are here in the area of the yeah. So this thing happens so fast, like you're going to say that I mean someone bought a few days of views, it was all you're ready for. So yeah, so I think just to keep learning and then you know improved. I hope nobody's left behind this channel.

Dr Ariel R King 14:11

I remember I had something called uh a trash 80, a TRS 80, and it was in 1982, and I used to walk around with it. It was supposed to be a portable computer, and people used to ask me if it was a sewing machine.

Kir Kenchukwu (Kene) Nnakwue 14:26

Wow.

Dr Ariel R King 14:27

But since 1982, of course, I mean so much has changed. But I I remember going through all kinds of technology for music, all types of technology for uh languages, all types of technology, of course, for word processing and so on and so forth. And I'm wondering really where are we going next, especially when I see, for example, the glasses that actually record? You know, somebody has glasses on that's recording. And sometimes people know about it, and sometimes people don't, because not all of us, including me, with that advanced. So that's what I'm asking. Where do you think this is going? May I ask in the future, what do you see happening with technology and in the future for everyday use and also perhaps for medical use?

Global Collaboration In A Smaller World

Kir Kenchukwu (Kene) Nnakwue 15:14

Okay, so sometimes when I get to talk about technology today, what comes to my mind today? Because we are in the era of AI. So I base more answers in terms of technology of life, and then in the seeable future, because I can't say for sure for maybe the next 20 or 30 years, but for now, AI is different. I'll say um most people will say we are like kind of the appearance, we are doing things valuable, those stuff like that. But um, I think we shouldn't be looking at it in that direction. We should be looking at it in product stuff, right? Responsibility. So for instance, every part of technology comes with this uh trailer, it's called the internet and mobile technology. Now, the key thing is being personal about how like yeah, social media is building small, not just a small book. So my prediction is that in the nearest future we have technology that's somewhat integrated into human like bionic technologies, like you know, that like biological, not just that things we have outside of the body, like we have our handy toys and some other things like if you look at the news, uh I think some of these uh top um top voices or typically control most of the things everything. So you see that we're here into having something like uh things that integrated it to the human body, so here's how it is. So basically you can do this, but if you have something that incorporates into your brain and then helps to just help you. This is done, just something like that towards bionics or something like that. Yeah, bionis.

Dr Ariel R King 17:14

You know, I mean, I I think it's absolutely fascinating. I also think that when it comes to medical devices, if I understand correctly, you know, for hearing, some people that remember the ones for hearing, and then they would attach it to the head. And even now they're finding that they're making devices. One one young person, another bright young person like yourself, made a device that uses sign language and actually turns the sign language into type language and table types it into language. So a person who is deaf and uses sign language can actually communicate with a person who is not deaf and does not know sign language. And so as an older person, I find it absolutely fascinating, all the things that we that we have that that's uh happening. What is your favorite type of technology? Uh, what what what is it that you really find exciting right now?

Bionics And Everyday Future Tech

Kir Kenchukwu (Kene) Nnakwue 18:07

At the moment, um, I think it's only stick to you. We don't think about AI terms. So I'm working with products. This is like the personal products that real agents tend to like come together as share ID groups. So basically, AI then is supposed to register itself on the back by itself, of course, to be prompted by their user, they call them register themselves communicates. So human beings just got a form online there and then view how the stables are communication and order and see how they are advancing because this AI model called the artificial intelligence, so that the rate at which they improve their knowledge and reason is very, very quick. So, I mean, for those of us uh I'm not including this, for those who are afraid that AI could break over the world, we will try to know when these guys are growing out of time, and then you possibly know what they are thinking, and then see how I mean so it's one around the identity of two weeks, then that AI using that's like my most like it's real that's what I'm working with right now.

Dr Ariel R King 19:26

I really love that. Can I ask? I mean, you've been doing as a software engineer, you you've been working in this for 10 years, which is actually a long time. Are you excited about the future? And if so, what are you excited about?

Progress Versus Misuse And Deepfakes

Kir Kenchukwu (Kene) Nnakwue 19:40

Yeah, I am excited and I'm also concerned at the same time. Yeah, I'm excited and I'm concerned too. And if you hear I would I would say concern not after fear, but like we need to have much more responsibilities, like we have to be responsible for you to make okay. So my excitement is the fact that the one I did on the example I did before I could build a two-fledged solution reconsidering my skills, maybe over the weekend or a week personal, depending on the complexity of the product. But right now, using the technology, I just need hours or even the whole day doing proper planning, even with the assistance of the EMT just to do my planning. So I'm able to plan because something in a few hours will be concerning what I do now. So I'm very, very much excited in the progress we've made of technology, mostly the most respectfulness. Yeah, then I'm concerned about how we use it. Uh, if you go online, you can see so many uh times that people commit online and then get to the possibly someone could uh you know mimic or create something, someone that looks like the change, and then use that your personality because there are you now personally someone who is not to be uh let me say work please then look in the space and then use your uh try to find what to use your reputation, because the fact that you have a good representation using to play on people on people if we could have laws that help us to get this as well. But aside that, I still do a lot of and very much what this could help us. We still have a lot of things to discover. Yeah, only this U process. So I've already looked at the style crimes we have to live. Uh not the style crimes, even physical crimes, committing crimes need to say. Yeah, that's it.

Dr Ariel R King 22:04

As a young as a young person within this field, you have a lot to think about, don't you? May I ask when it comes to getting young people into this field, what do you think needs to happen in order to get them interested? And once they are interested, how can we prepare them for such a dynamic and ever-changing field?

Kir Kenchukwu (Kene) Nnakwue 22:26

Okay, so I mean, by young people, I wouldn't qualify.

Dr Ariel R King 22:30

Well, they're they're definitely not my age.

Kir Kenchukwu (Kene) Nnakwue 22:34

So young people, so when I'm talking about young.

Dr Ariel R King 22:37

I'm talking about 30 and under, right? Or so even high school, elementary school, but young people, when I say young, even now you have five, six, and seven year olds dipping into this type of technology. So if they want to get into this, how should they prepare? And what kind of training do you think we should have available for them so they could be successful?

Kir Kenchukwu (Kene) Nnakwue 22:59

Okay, for me, I think if it's that's why they're still young, but structurally it's training and structure with that. I don't know your specific. Are you in the UK? Are you uh the UK United States?

Dr Ariel R King 23:22

Well, I'm an American, but I live in Yeah. But I mean, I have to say it's the same, it's the same. I mean, it's really pardon me, it's really interesting that all over the world, when it comes to this, it seems like it's the great equalizer that that you know, that this field is a great equalizer. So I'm not even really sure it really matters where you are anymore. It mostly matters the exposure that you have and perhaps the people that you get to get informed with either online or somewhere somewhere. I think that we're so connected now that it doesn't really matter where you are.

Preparing Young People Through Curriculum

Kir Kenchukwu (Kene) Nnakwue 23:55

Okay, okay. Well, I will use uh when I asked about your school and your school system later, I was asking to say I'll type an example when the first time I was exposed to the computer and how excited I was. I was about seven or eight years. In fact, I was able to type my name instead of ideally this whole like I was so happy. So um I mean, technology has already advanced to this point this year as a day, but that's about 20 minutes ago now. So but I feel like if we can start when they are still young, their curriculum should be included, knowing that I mean we are no longer in our box computers. You know, computers are in the box shape or I mean when I was still young, we use phones that are with buttons, like you have to press buttons to do all that. But now, I mean just pick up your phone. We have some that can do some of this very funny stuff. I mean, trying to upgrade or curriculum, like children starting from now to know that I mean, okay, for instance, this is how this is the curriculum we are in. I mean, we are in, or we are moving from this direction to this direction. So I didn't just start from young brother or young land. We give us a few curriculum, then from there, I guess currently.

Dr Ariel R King 25:19

I think that that makes all the difference. May I ask? I can't believe it, but our time is out. We only have several more minutes left. Would you please tell our audience how to I know? Would you please tell our audience how to get in touch with you? Thank you.

How To Reach The Guest

Kir Kenchukwu (Kene) Nnakwue 25:31

Oh well, I mostly from LinkedIn. I'll link being my personal email or WhatsApp. Yeah, WhatsApp. Yeah, it's like platforms. Oh, do I need to call basically communicate with me there? Okay, so when you basically can find the expedit, yeah, and um you can reach me personally if you want to my email at in up with 10 at gmail.com. Then my personal phone number. Yeah, plus 234, it's one three seven nine two six zero four. Yeah, that's how you can get to me.

Dr Ariel R King 26:13

Wonderful. I want to thank you. I know time always goes by so quick, especially when you have such an interesting conversation. So I want to thank you. And to remember, if I'm not for myself, who will be for me? If I am only for myself, what am I? If not now, then when? That was by the great philosopher Hillel. And I've added if not me, then who? Thank you so much for joining us.

Kir Kenchukwu (Kene) Nnakwue 26:36

Thank you, everyone, for performance as well as being interviewed. Thank you so much. Thank you, everyone.