Toward 2020:
Interesting Tech
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Business Week:
20 Inventions for Next 10 Years
 Ocean-driven hydropower  Smarter crowdsourcing
 Miniaturized medical devices  Social media literacy
 3D Printing  New banking systems from
 Even smarter apps for mobile individual to the top of the global
devices  Pop-up businessess
 Next-gen biofuels  Reformed urban transit systems
 Electric avenues - network of - featuring shared electric
auto charging stations vehicles for last mile
 Truly on-demand  Cure for Alzheimer’s
entertainment  Pop-up housing
 Nanotech computing  Super high-speed internet
 Learning to feel the force -  Supercharged batteries -
mind control of objects nanobatteries
 Body power - generating local  Cure for cancer
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What Is Your Image
Of The Future?
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What Is Your Image Of The Future?
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A Survey from TrendWatching®
Trendwatching.com
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People formerly known as
consumers
It’s only just begun
Based on Trendwatching.com
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Twitter: Next Thing or Tipping Point to a
Meaning-Free Future?
5
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Lesson 4: Energy and Environment
Tipping Points are changing everything
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2008 IEA World Energy Outlook
50 mbd additional output needed by 2020
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Solar Future
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Nanotechnology
Not just small things, but things with different
properties because of nanoscale
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Konarka Technologies, Technology Review July/August 2004
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NanoSolar.com

Nanobatteries
Altairnano
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UCSD: PC of 2015
One Hundred Million Pixels
Connected at 10Gbps
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AORTA Technology Rules
6th Sense
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6th Sense
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Intrago Mobility
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Knowledge Value Economy
Rapid
Innovation Debt
Technology Drag
Convergence
It’s what Global
Product or Learning
Service Competition
Knows
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Three Future Questions
 What is
Probable?
 What is
Possible?
 What is
Preferred?
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Smart Money:
Innovations that would change the world?
 Nano-solar and nano-batteries
at economical level
 Wireless nano-paper that
delivers all content
 Nano-med machines, devices
 Singularity-level AI
 Physics discovery such as
tapping dark matter or zero
point energy
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Paradigm: The way we do things around here
 We should move From…  We should move To…
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The future is
something
we do.
The future is not
something that just
Glen Hiemstra
happens to us. Futurist.com
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