This is the presentation from our panel on the Future of Connected Objects @ Digital Shoreditch 2015. The panel was hosted by Daniel Fogg, and featured Ross Atkin (Ross Atkin Associates), Jessi Baker (Provenance) and Dan Harvey (Sapient Nitro). Using the Reiss Profile as a framework to understand human motivations, we came up with six fun, potential connected objects that could arise in the next few decades.

1. Digital Shoredicth 2015 Panel - 13 May 2015!
Exploring the Future of Connected Objects
Ross Atkin!
Ross Atkin Associates
@rossatkin
Daniel Fogg!
Graftt
@danielfogg
Daniel Harvey!
Sapient Nitro
@dancharvey
Jessi Baker!
Provenance
@jessibaker

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Digital Shoreditch 2015 Panel - Exploring the Future of Connected Objects
Exploring the future

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Define: Connected Object
A physical object that through a connection to the
internet, and the resulting service-layer this allows,
has enhanced features and functionality.
Related terms
Internet of things (IoT)
Smart objects
Wearable devices
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Connected devices
Connected products
Smart home
Digital Shoreditch 2015 Panel - Exploring the Future of Connected Objects

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Define: The Reiss Profile
Developed by Professor Dr. Steven Reiss in the
1990s, the Reiss profile is a framework for measuring
human motivation and understanding individual
personality. It comprises 16 basic desires.
Digital Shoreditch 2015 Panel - Exploring the Future of Connected Objects
Acceptance, the need for approval
Curiosity, the need to learn
Eating, the need for food
Family, the need to raise children
Honor, the need to be loyal to the traditional values of one's
clan/ethnic group
Idealism, the need for social justice
Independence, the need for individuality
Order, the need for organized, stable, predictable
environments
Physical activity, the need for exercise
Power, the need for influence of will
Romance, the need for sex and for beauty
Saving, the need to collect
Social contact, the need for friends (peer
relationships)
Social status, the need for social standing/importance
Tranquility, the need to be safe
Vengeance, the need to strike back and to compete

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Exploring the Future of Connected Objects!
Provocations
Digital Shoreditch 2015 Panel - Exploring the Future of Connected Objects

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Independence & Physical Activity
How will adventurers and thrill junkies
manage in a world where travel becomes
too expensive both financially and
environmentally? Here comes Project:
Daredevil a remote sensing kit for
extreme sports. How could this transform
not only travel and sport but also
education, medicine, politics &
business?
Digital Shoreditch 2015 Panel - Exploring the Future of Connected Objects

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Digital Shoreditch 2015 Panel - Exploring the Future of Connected Objects
Eating
As food and energy supplies strain and
people demand instant gratification
things we find commonplace today like
supermarkets and refrigerators will become
a thing of the past. Drone allotments will
become the defacto way we order and
grow our food. Farmville meets Amazon
Prime for a new era of rationing.

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Digital Shoreditch 2015 Panel - Exploring the Future of Connected Objects
Order
Who wouldn't want a domestic version of
Amazon’s Kiva warehouse robots scurrying
around putting everything ints place,
imposing order on your home? But just as
domestic robots become a reality the
tumbling cost of ultra low power connectivity
opens up the possibility of tagging
*everything*. With all your stuff fully
Googleable will tidying up become
redundant and chaos win out over order?

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Digital Shoreditch 2015 Panel - Exploring the Future of Connected Objects
Vengeance
‘Fraping’, or stealing someone’s Facebook login
to cause them social harm, is so well established
vengeance seekers will expand the tactic to
connected products. An assailant with the keys
to your Nest Account or Home Kit database
could cause mischief in your home. From
assassinating your Hamster with your heating
system, to granting undesirable characters
access. Will these threats lead to a new class of
connected product, like a Bouncer Router, to
restrict access to inappropriate digital entrants?

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Digital Shoreditch 2015 Panel - Exploring the Future of Connected Objects
Honour
As increasing individual autonomy leads
us all to become ‘global citizens’ the need to
be loyal to the traditional values of one's
clan/ethnic group changes in guise. Those
that wish to defend traditions and rituals will
need champion enforcement systems.
The "Etiquette Table" is one such enforcer -
monitoring and nudging table manners to
one of many clan/ethnic group “settings”.

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Digital Shoreditch 2015 Panel - Exploring the Future of Connected Objects
Idealism
"I am because we are”. As individuals we
are nothing without systems to enforce
and encourage just behaviour for all
citizens of a society. But how do we
govern in an algorithm and AI controlled
future? When data rules our decisions,
"Direct Democracy" will allow every citizen
to vote on algorithms that control anything
of interest - from traffic to minimum wages.

12. Thank you.
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