This document discusses several trends related to the rise of a "chaordic society" driven by exponential technology growth and social transformations. These include the increasing importance of platforms and digital connectivity; changes in work models through collaborative economies and automation; and emerging ideas around new economic systems like blockchain currencies and sharing economies. It also touches on related social and philosophical topics like transhumanism, surveillance issues, and what cities and communities may look like in the future.

1. “TIME MOVES IN ONE DIRECTION
MEMORY IN ANOTHER…”
Willam Gibson
Painting “Point me in the right direction”
Preston M Smith

2. RONALD VAN DEN HOFF
FOTO CREDIT: HENK JAN WINKELDERMAAT
AUTHOR
PUBLISHER
TRENDWATCHER
ENTREPRENEUR
COACH
INVESTOR
CHAIRMAN OF
SOCIETY30
FOUNDATION
GOOGLE
AMAZON
ALIBABA
FACEBOOK
YOU TUBE
UBER
AIRBNB
MICROSOFT
10 YEARS

3. A CHAORDIC SOCIETY ON THE RISE*:
TECHNOLOGY GROWS EXPONENTIALLY
&
CAUSES SOCIAL TRANSFORMATIONS
* FRAMEWORK BY
INTERNET
gateway to
information
SOCIAL WEB
connectivity machine
COLLABORATIVE
ECONOMY
new social economic
value creation platforms
1995 202520152005
AUTONOMOUS
WORLD
artificial & human
intelligence connected:
GLOBAL BRAIN
LIFE FOLLOWING OUR
CIRCADIAN RHYTHM
LIQUID MODERNITY
Richard Sennett

4. ESTONIA: E-resident-ID-cards.
E-residents have validated identities
and can open bank accounts,
start companies, hire staff without
ever visiting Estonia in real life.
PLATFORMS: THE WHOLE COUNTRY = THE PLATFORM

5. E-Sports for pro-gamers. Player ‘PewDiePie’ has 41 million subscribers
and 10 billion video clicks.
The 2016 world championship drew 43 million viewers,
prize pool reached $6,7 million.
PLATFORMS: GAMING BIGGER THAN SPORTS

6. INVISIBLE DATA BASE PLATFORMS VISUALIZED:
THE IMMERSIVE GRID
PICTURE BY PROTECT WISE

7. The factory of the future will have only two
employees: a man and a dog. The man will be there
to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the
man from touching the equipment.* *Autodesk CEO Carl Bass

8. 5 years old
WHATSAPP $19 billion
450 million users
55 employees
$345.5 million per employee
23 years old
VODAFONE $128 billion
440 million users
92.000 employees
$1.4 million per employee

9. ROBOTS…

10. CYBORG - TRANSHUMANISME

11. INSURANCE CLAIMS- REALITY CHECK BY ARTIFICIAL
INTELLICENGE.

12. USING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE:
DOCTOR: MEDICAL DIAGNOSES,
LAWER: JURIDICAL KNOWLEDGE,
VALUATOR: FINE ART EXPERT
RECRUITER: CV ANALYSIS
CV Analysis of Ronald van den Hoff:
You are shrewd and opinionated.
You prefer to challenge authority and traditional values to help
bring about positive changes.
You are adventurous: you are eager to experience new things.
You are energetic: you enjoy a fast-paced schedule with many activities.
You are unconcerned with both tradition and taking pleasure in life.
You care more about making your own path than following
what others have done.
And you prefer activities with a purpose greater than just
personal enjoyment.

13. “With artificial intelligence we are summoning the demon,”
Elon Musk
THE IN-BETWEEN LANGUAGE…
A: “ YOU I EVERYTHING ELSE”…
B: “BALLS HAVE A BALL TO ME
TO ME TO ME TO ME”.

14. ARE WE LIVING IN A MACRO – MICROWAVE(D) WORLD?
The ‘White Spots App’ visualizes the invisible electromagnetic cloud

15. THE COMMONS IS LOST.
“IF THE PRIVATE BECOMES VISIBLE, A HUMAN STOPS BEING A
HUMAN”
Hannah Arendt
“De politie breidt het aantal camera's fors uit:
Tweehonderd flitspalen op de binnenwegen
worden uitgerust met
Automatic Number Plate Recognition camera’s”.

16. ALEXA
“No one shall be subjected to
arbitrary interference with his
privacy, family, home or
correspondence…”
Article 12 of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights

18. “SORRY Y’ALL,
HUMANITY’S NEARING AN UPGRADE TO IRRELEVANCE…”
*
* Yuval Harari: “Homo Deus”, 2017
CYBORG &
TRANSHUMANISM:
Homo Sapiens merges with a new
technological species,
thus upgrades itself…
FREE DATA FLOW
& DATAISM:
The Global Brain knows us better
than we know ourselves…
1 2

19. Kate Raworth
NEW ECONOMIC SYSTEMS:
DONUT ECONOMY PASSENGER ECONOMY

20. BLOCKCHAIN & CRYPTO CURRENCIES
- DEFRAGMENTATION
- DECENTRALIZATION
- AUTONOMOUS ORGANIZATIONS
&
- (dynamic) SHARED OWNERSHIP
HASHGRAPH

21. New economic systems:
Interdependent Economy
networked value creation, based on
solidarity, sustainability & reciprocity.
Decentralized local networks,
shared dynamic blockchain-driven ownership
interconnected internationally:
Internet of Cities

22. takeaway home cooked meals
NEW ECONOMIC SYSTEMS:
COLLABORATIVE & SHARING ECONOMY

23. THE AIRBNB EFFECT

24. NEIGHBOURHOOD BECOMES ONE BIG-GIG ECONOMY,
WITH THE PLATFORMS AS ENABLERS.

25. WE-ORGANIZE : SOCIAL COLLABORATION.

26. “It’s a shift in how hotels are being used,
not just by travelers, but by locals too,
so that these brands become
more a part of everyone’s daily lives,
whether they’re on a trip or not”.
Deanna Ting, Skift- Nov 16, 2017

27. COMMUNITY INTEGRATED
CO-WORKING, CO-LIVING & CO-PRODUCING,
CO-IMPACTING

28. *S2G FRAMEWORK
by Joe Pine, April 2017
GENIUS
SMART
DUMB
STUPID
skills become power
-ecosystem-
goes well beyond
original job
gets the job done
gets in the way
S2G FRAMEWORK*

29. S2G Framework for cities
‘A SERENDIPITIOUS MULTIDIMENSIONAL PUBLIC SPACE
WITH CULTURAL, ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL DIVERSITY’.
OLMA, 2017
GENIUS CITY
SMART CITY
‘INHABITANTS ARE MERE DATA PRODUCERS AND ARE
MANAGED BY ALGORITMS. PUBLIC SPACE HAS GONE’.
VAN DEN HOFF, 2017
YOU LIVE WHERE YOU WORK
DUMB CITY
‘TALENT, TOLERANCE, TECHNOLOGY’
RICHARD FLORIDA, 2002
CREATIVE CITY

30. SHARE DATA
GET SERENDIPITY
&
TRANSFORM
TRANSFORMATION:
INDIVIDUALIZED
EXPERIENCE
with an
EDUCATIONAL
ELEMENT

31. spaces, services
and products
monetary capital
shared co-working &
open collaboration
social capital

32. MATCHMAKING BY USING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE.
working on a key note presentation
Try to describe in one sentence what you are working on today. Or if you need support. We will connect you!

33. “…Connect, Collaborate & Grow…”
Have access to a 100K social-capital-
co-work-seats-eco system per year in
The Netherlands:
* got a new job,
* was invited for a new project
* or started a new company:
2013 1 out of 8
2015 1 out of 6
2017 1 out of 3 ??
** 2013-2015-2017 Survey by the Erasmus University of Rotterdam.
…and assist us
in activities like:
-sales
-marketing
-pr.
-research
-innovation

34. “We want to create a platform where employees and coworkers
come together and reinforce each other. ” Silvia Onos, Program-manager.
2016:
7 pitch events
collaboration 46 start-ups
746 ambassadors
“LAB55 in Apeldoorn is dé beste lokale flexplek
van Nederland”.
De Nationale Flexplek Test, november 2017.

35. “Decentralization enables at a fine grain level
groups of people to self-organize
in a manner that was not possible before…”
David Orban, Singularity University

36. NEW ECONOMIC SYSTEMS:
CHINESE MODEL

37. “DID YOU NOTICE THAT
SOMETHING EXTRAORDINARY
IS HAPPENING IN THIS WORLD…?” *
* Justin Brown: “Ideapod”, 2017
THE INTERNET IS CREATING A
GLOBAL VILLAGE OF
INFORMED PEOPLE, AND IS NO
LONGER MANUPILTATED BY
GOVERNMENTS OR GLOBAL
CORPORATIONS.
A NEW DECENTRALIZED
ECONOMIC MODEL IS HALTING
CONSUMERISM,
GIVES US ACCESS TO
HEALTHY FOOD AND CREATES
A BETTER WORK MODEL.

38. PLATFORMS: HOSPITALITY
MATE Hotels creates their own Hub &
Spoke platform

39. FUNCTIONAL ASPIRATIONAL MEANINGFULL
INDUSTRIAL
REVOLUTION
DIGITAL
REVOLUTION
AGRICULTURAL
SOCIETY
INDUSTRIAL
SOCIETY
DATA
SOCIETYFABRICATION
REVOLUTION
1850 1990 20302020BEFORE 1800
A CHAORDIC SOCIETY ON THE RISE
THE FIRST MACHINE AGE THE SECOND MACHINE AGE