The future is FASTER than you think:
tech trends and new business models
Prepared for Slash office talk
15 February 2019
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Hi.
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My name is
Andries De Vos
CEO of www.slash.co

Hi-Tech
Startup Studio
We help clients
We build startups
www.slash.co
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We build
startups (JV)
We help clients
(corporates, startups)

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Part 1 |
Our Exponential
Digital Future

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The Chessboard Legend

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The 4th Industrial Revolution

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Forces driving innovation are
accelerating and compounding

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Tomorrow’s speed of change will
make today look like we are crawling

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4 Forces driving
acceleration of future

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#1 Computational
Abundance (Moore’s Law)
#2 Tech as Open Interfaces
& Building Blocks
#3 De-monitization
#4 Capital Abundance

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#1

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#1

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#2
The history of the internet
is a history of interfaces
and information exchange

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#2

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#2

What is innovation today?
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#2

The rapid exchange of
ideas through interfaces
The creation of open
building blocks, freely accessible
The building on top
of each others’ ideas
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#2

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#3

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#3

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#3

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#3

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#3

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#3

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#3

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#3

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#3

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#3

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#3

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#4

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#4

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#4

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The Chessboard Legend

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We have now
entered the second half
of the chessboard …
change is accelerating

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The Future is Faster
than you think
#2

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• Singularity University (https://su.org/) -
YouTube
• Yuval Noah Harari – TED, YouTube and Book
‘21 Challenges for the 21st Century’
• “Thank you for being late” by Thomas
Friedman
• Cambodia.AI & Startup Jungle Telegrams

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THANK
YOU
Contact us:
andries@slash.co