In this talk at Maker Faire Kansas City (private talk for sponsors and business leaders), I focused on the Google Autonomous Vehicle as a way to talk about the conjunction of sensors and cloud data/machine learning as a key to future applications.

2. The Future In One Picture
Tim O’Reilly
O’Reilly Media
Maker Faire Kansas City
June 24, 2011

4. 2005: Stanley Wins the DARPA Grand Challenge

5. DIY Meets the Global Brain
The “intelligent” devices of the future are connected to
real-time data services in the cloud

6. “We don’t have better algorithms. We just
have more data.”
- Peter Norvig, Chief Scientist, Google

7. “The future is here. It’s
just not evenly
distributed yet.”
- William Gibson

8. A device with eyes and
ears, with a sense of
place, and motion, and
proximity, with memory
of what it’s seen and
where it’s been, a
connection to the people
we know and love.

9. Beyond information
retrieval: real time
connection with other
people and what they
know.

10. Android + Arduino

11.  Ford and Google prediction API

13. Google KC Fiber deployment
 wireline to wireless transition - free up spectrum -
Negroponte comment - FCC initiative

17.  Entrepreneurship

20.  Online sharing of designs - thingaverse, ifixit,
instructables
 Saul’s stuff


21. Vannevar Bush’s Memex - 1945