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The Weird Is Yet To Come
What do we want out of a connected world?

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We didn’t see it coming.
I.

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“Intuitions are not yet tuned
for spambot clothes sellers.”
— Tim Maly (Quiet Babylon)

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Intuitions aren’t tuned to
spam appearing on our
picture frames either.

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“We apologize for any offence
our algorithms may have caused”
— Solid Gold Bomb

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“A single mysterious computer program
made up 4 percent of all quote traffic in the
U.S. stock market last week[,…]”
“The motive of the algorithm is still unclear.”
— CNBC

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“A single mysterious computer program
made up 4 percent of all quote traffic in the
U.S. stock market last week[,…]”
“The motive of the algorithm is still unclear.”
— CNBC

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“A Better
Document
Access
System”

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“The truth is no online
database will replace your
daily newspaper, no CD-ROM
can take the place of a
competent teacher and no
computer network will change
the way government works.”
— Newsweek, 1995

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“The truth is no online
database will replace your
daily newspaper, no CD-ROM
can take the place of a
competent teacher and no
computer network will change
the way government works.”
— Newsweek, 1995

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Now look where we are…

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We still don’t see it coming.
II.

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“The conference is dedicated to the post-
digital era. Why? Because the digital
revolution is over, digital has won. It is
no longer new and innovative, as today
we take its use for granted.”
— NEXT Conference, 2012

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Jevons Paradox
“technological progress that
increases the efficiency with
which a resource is used tends
to increase (rather than
decrease) the rate of
consumption of that resource.”

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Jevons Paradox
“The cheaper it is to consume
» just one more «
the more we will use it.”

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1.5 GFLOPS

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1.5 GFLOPS

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Creatively Wasting Transistors
— Alan Kay

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“Rather than reserve computing power for core information processing, Kay used outrageous
amounts of it for frivolous stuff like drawing cartoons on the screen. Those cartoons—icons,
windows, pointers, and animations—became the graphical user interface.”

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Stop worrying about connectivity.
Work on what it will mean.
III.

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“Communications tools
don't get socially
interesting until they get
technologically boring.”
— Clay Shirky

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“Communications tools
don't get socially
interesting until they get
technologically boring.”
— Clay Shirky
Anything,
really…

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Consider connectivity solved.

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Xbox,
anyone?

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Video at https://vimeo.com/41686651

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“Car Surprise – when you find your car
somewhere unexpected and witness your
vehicle engaging in unexpected activities
e.g. pickup up flowers at the mall”
— Jan Chipchase

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“Trailer Trashing – where dodgy looking
vehicles are assigned to trail an otherwise
apparent owner either as a joke or to send
a message, e.g. a hearse sent by a debt
collection agency to scare-up payment”
— Jan Chipchase

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“OK Glass —
Where’s my charger?”

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Martin Spindler
Strategy Consultant
Internet of Things | Smart Energy
http://martinspindler.net
hello@martinspindler.net
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