DISRUPTIVE
Technologies
A look into the future

“A new technology that unexpectedly
DISPLACES
an established technology”
Clayton M. Christensen

TODAY,
we know some
technologies
that were
disruptive in the
PAST

We don’t know the technologies
that will be disruptive in the
FUTURE…
…but we can IMAGINE something

In the future people will be
CLOSER

Not so long ago,
people used to call
their relatives
ONCE a week

Now, they can
talk to them
ANYTIME
and
ANYWHERE

…and even SEE them

Soon you´ll be able to FEEL them
no matter
how far
they are
Holographic videoconference
Telepresence 3D
Eye tracking Electronic Aromas

In the future, people won’t get
LOST

Not so long ago,
people looked up
PRINTED MAPS

Now,
GPS
devices are
commonly
used

Soon, real and
virtual worlds will
MASH UP
in new GPS and
Internet-enabled
Physical World Hyperlinking
devices Augmented Reality
3D content Virtual Worlds
Augmented Vision Total Inmersion

In the future
people will
never be
LATE

Our old
alarm
clocks are
history

Today, mobile
devices manage
our
AGENDA

DIGITAL
Future
ASSISTANTS
will use our
CONTEXT
information
Real Time Massive Data processing “It´s a cloudy day and there
DIGITAL ASSISTANTS Sensors is a traffic jam at the N-2.
The meeting starts in two
Smart Cities Context modeling hours. You should wake up
Indoor&Outdoor positionning now”

In the future
people will feel
YOUNG and HEALTHY
in their eighties

Today doctors
take care of us

even
soon
in the
DISTANCE

In the future,
BIOSENSOR CHIPS
will become
the doctor’s
eyes and ears
Remote Assistants
BIOSENSORS
eHealth Nanotechnology

In the future,
the Amazonia will
TRIPLE
its extension

In the past,
GUTENBERG
revolutionized the
written industry

Now almost
everybody
has a printer

But information
consumption is
evolving from
PAPER
to
DIGITAL

In the future
CONTENT
will no
longer be
E-ink Plastic Polymer
CONSUMED
paper
Flexible touch screen displays
Organic Transitors e-Books
on paper

And behind all
these changes

Future
INTERNET
evolution is the main
underlying
The Internet of things
ENABLER
Ultrabroadband Internet
Nano datacenters

This can be a
REALITY

or
NO

Nevertheless,
are we really
PREPARED
for this?