This document discusses the exponential growth of technologies and their potential impacts. It makes three key points: 1. Many technologies are developing exponentially, with costs dropping sharply as capabilities increase. This will massively disrupt existing industries and business models. 2. The convergence of technologies like AI, robotics, biotech and others could lead to unprecedented changes in products, services and society. It may transform the very nature of work and businesses. 3. Countries and organizations need to prepare for this disruption by becoming more innovative, collaborative and by developing an "exponential mindset" to harness new opportunities and tackle large problems through breakthrough technologies.

1. Salim Ismail Exponential Canada

5. Digitize
Disrupt
Demonetize
Democratize
Information Layers
New
Breakthroughs

6. Why information » exponential
// marginal cost >> zero
// domain explodes
// problem space shifts
>scarcity to abundance

7. Breeding

8. Accelerating
Technologies
Al
Robotics
Biotech
Nanotech
Medicine
Neuroscience
Energy
Computing

9. Cost
of
Light

10. Moore’s Law
Reading / Sequencing DNA

12. Cost of Lidar
2012: $75,000
2017: $50
2020: $10

13. 2016 Prediction:
500B by 2020
Internet of Things
50B devices by 2020

14. Top Solar Expert:
cost of all components
(polycrystalline silicon
ingots, protective glass &
silver in wiring) will never
drop below $1/watt.
2014:
$0.50 cents / watt
“Getting below $1 has exceeded my expectations”

15. Solar Impact

16. Digitize
Disrupt
Demonetize
Democratize
New
Breakthroughs
Information Layers

17. Open Everything
Domain is
Digitized
Costs Drop
to Zero
Open Source
Communities
Form
Technologies
Intersect
New
Products
& Services
Existing
Businesses
Disrupted

18. Hyperloop

20. EXPONENTIAL DISRUPTION

21. “Any company designed for
success in the 20th century is
doomed to failure in the 21st.”
David Rose - Gust

22. bitly.com/exotop100 - Secrets of Unicorns

23. 4 out of 10 = ExO

24. What’s
Next?

25. 25
• competitive
• aggressive
• risk-taking
• self-assertive
• winner take all
• hierarchical
• top-down, centralized
• logical
• yang
Male / Female Archetypes
• cooperative
• participatory
• nurturing
• integrative
• teamwork
• network
• distributed, decentralized
• intuitive
• yin
Scarcity Abundance

26. 26
Abundance

27. 27
Fight or Flight Tend and Befriend
Biobehavioral Responses to Stress in Females: Tend-and-Befriend, Not Fight-or-Flight
Shelley E. Taylor, Laura Cousino Klein, Brian P. Lewis, Tara L. Gruenewald, Regan A. R. Gurung, and John A. Updegraff
University of California, Los Angeles
Psychological Review 2000. Vol. 107, No. 3, 411-429

28. 28
Fire Ants - Cooperation

29. 29
Capitaclysm?

30. DIGITIZE
DEMATERIALIZE
DEMOCRATIZE
DEMONETIZE

31. ExO Network
GLOBAL TRANSFORMATION ECOSYSTEM

32. ExO Network - 200 strong

33. Canada: how to become exponential
1. Technology
2. Entrepreneurship
3. Policy
4. Platform
= Democratization (4Ds)
= Experimentation/Breakthroughs
= Culture
= Growth & Connectedness

34. E-stonia: Country-as-a-Service

35. E-stonia: Country-as-a-Service

36. Canada as a Platform
1. Use Canada as a brand
2. Fix small thinking (risk-takers award)
3. Invest in e-commerce, AI, quantum computing
4. Leverage industry/gov’t collaboration

38. Canada: 73 UN SDG indicators
// 17 on track
// 12 need acceleration
// 26 need a breakthrough
// 18 moving backwards
Source: Brookings Institute