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Atlas mapping in the hybrid age
The document discusses the evolution of human-technology interactions through various ages, highlighting our transition from coexistence to co-evolution with technology. It emphasizes the emergence of the 'hybrid age,' where integrated technologies become ubiquitous, intelligent, and responsive to human needs, leading to fundamental changes in society and individual capabilities. The author urges organizations and individuals to adapt to this rapid technological advancement by increasing their technology quotient (TQ) to navigate the opportunities and challenges ahead.
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- 2. • A human-technologycivilization. • Technologies merge with each other and humans merge with technology. • Technology will shape us as much as we shape it. http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/news/a14457/hybrid-age-9715111/
- 3. PUBLIC SAFETY • “Technologyfuturists Ayesha and Parag Khanna declare that we are rapidly moving from a point of co-existence with technology to a phase of co-evolution with it.” • “Technology no longer just processes our instruction; it has its own agency, and we respond to it as much as it responds to us.” • The Khannas took their cue from Alvin and Heidi Toffler and their book Future Shock, published at the dawn of the information age in 1970, which has proven to be accurate on a number of counts. https://www.amazon.com/Hybrid-Reality-Human-Technology-Civilization-ebook/dp/B0085BLPW8
- 4. Stone Age (250,000 BP) •Nomadic bands • Hunting and gathering • Simple stone tools Agrarian Age (10,000 BP) • Sedentary farmers • Cultivating crops • Plow, wheel Industrial Age (18th & 19th centuries) • Factory workers • Large-scale manufacturing • Printing-press, mechanical clock Information Age (1970s) • Knowledge workers • Data creation and communication • Personal computer, and later the WWW and mobile phones
- 5. • Ubiquitous computing(with trillions of sensors covering our environment) • Intelligent machines (devices communicating with each other as well as with us) • Social technologies (encouraging us to develop emotional relationships with them) • Integrated scientific fields (such as information technology, biotechnology, pervasive computing, robotics, neuroscience and nanotechnology hybridization of the “Bio Age”, the “Nano Age”, and the “Neuro Age”) • Rapidly-adaptive development strategies (with the ability quickly read and act on signals of change) • It is worldwide; collective; politically-, economically-, religiously-, and socially- agnostic
- 6. 1. Ubiquitous 2. Intelligent 3.Social 4. Integrated 5. Disruptive
- 7. • Computers PCs smart devices molecular computers • Small computing machines will evolve to be in every object in our lives, including our bodies • By 2020, we will live “in technology”
- 8. • No longerdeaf, dumb, and blind • Intelligent, multisensory, intuitive, autonomous, collective • E.g., Watson beat two human competitors on Jeopardy in February 2011 using language comprehension, the highest marker of human intelligence
- 9. • Anthropomorphic • Morenatural interaction (language, no keyboard) • Voice and gesture-based commands • Responsive (like humans) and reactive • We’ll form emotional ties t the technologies
- 10. • Neuroscience, nanoscience, bioscience,and more will be integrated • E.g., biomechanicotronics = biology + mechanical engineering + electronics
- 11. • Bring productsand services to the masses very rapidly • Disrupt older models of thought, business, action, politics, economics, science, etc. • Force us to adapt quickly • It will become global quickly • Therefore, the poor and underprivileged with access to technology will create opportunities and disruptions
- 12. • A fundamentalchange—human nature ceases to be a discrete or immutable truth. • Evolution doesn’t have to be accidental and contingent, it can be directed and technologically assisted. • Uniting genetics, neuroscience, synthetic biology and other fields, a systematic effort is under way to break the codes of gene-behavior relations and accelerate our ability to augment ourselves.
- 13. Information Age Hybrid Age ??? Computers Digitalmedia Singularity 1970s 2010s 2040s Runaway technological growth
- 14. The Hybrid Ageis the transition period between the Information Age and the moment of technological singularity (when machines surpass human intelligence) that inventor Ray Kurzweil, author of The Singularity is Near, estimates we may reach 2040, if not sooner. https://ieet.org/index.php/IEET2/more/khanna201209 15
- 15. • Technology providesintelligent feedback • Technologies are not just lighter and smaller, but invisible and integrated • Technologies are physically integrated with humans • Technologies allow us to augment ourselves • The “computer” as an object will physically disappear from our view and will instead be invisibly integrated into ourselves and our built environment • A person’s technology quotient (TQ) becomes more important than their intelligence quotient (IQ) or emotional quotient (EQ)
- 16. • Opportunity • Prosperity •Chaos • Uncertainty • … Not unlike other ages
- 18. • Ride thewave • Prepare yourself and your organization (raise your TQ) • Anticipate and mitigate the implications for: - Geoscience (geopolitics, geoeconomics, geophysics, geoecology, …) • And, for us, embrace the new age of mapping (the creation, dissemination, and use of maps) Learn Assimilate Respond/ React Anticipate/ Plan
- 19. • Integrated intoour foundational knowledge • Easily searchable and queryable • Presented in ways that are intuitive to understand and integrated into our existing knowledge base • The need for spatial knowledge is anticipated • Responsive to changes in or additions to our knowledge base • Spatial information will allow individuals to connect to each other directly and indirectly • Spatial information will allow services to be provided for quickly and easily https://www.amazon.com/Hybrid-Reality-Human-Technology-Civilization-ebook/dp/B0085BLPW8
- 20. • Ubiquitous • Intelligent •Social • Integrated • Rapidly-adaptive
- 21. • Ubiquitous: Webservices provide easy access to the atlas content through ubiquitous computing on a wide range and large number of devices connected via the Internet. • Intelligent: The user experience supports intelligent exploration through contextual understanding, intuitive findability, and desirable comparison. • Integrated: The user interface seamlessly integrates the maps and supporting content. • Social: The atlases are social, providing useful opportunities to communicate and collaborate with others. • Adaptable: The atlas can be integrated with external data to provide responsive query and exploration.
- 22. • No accessrestrictions or limitations • No linguistic limitations (in your language; at your language level) • No cognitive limitations (at your level of understanding; spatial cognition limitations are overcome -- color deficiency, map reading ability, etc.) • Complete and correct (no more “bad maps”; the problems of uncertainty are solved) • Complete data currency (present, past, and future)
- 23. • Completely responsiveand even anticipatory (new maps based on real-time data or projections) • Easy to access, search, and query • Easy to understand and assimilate • Personal and individual (on- demand knowledge based on your needs, e.g., coffee versus world security) • Safe (the problems of privacy are solved) • More???
- 24. We are atthe beginning of a new age a new way of thinking a new way of living… How will we respond? React Innovate Prioritize Strategize Capitalize
- 25. Aileen Buckley, Esri abuckley@esri.com @mappingcenter GregAllord allordgreg@gmail.com
Editor's Notes
- #2 Atlases have traditionally been printed and published in bound volumes, but recent advances in mapping technologies have resulted in many of the newer atlases being released in digital form, often on the web. Nonetheless, more atlases are available in paper form than not, and these are often difficult for large numbers of readers to find, access, and use. As reference materials, atlases are not often available through Interlibrary loan. Some atlases had limited print runs, some may no longer be maintained in a map collection due to physical storage limitations, and some have been lost or damaged over the course of time. Due to their physical size and weight, some historical atlases must be stored separately from single-sheet maps or smaller-sized atlases, and these oversize volumes may not even be cataloged with the general collection. As a result, this rich source of information often sits untapped in library map drawers, inaccessible stores of map publishers, underutilized archives in museums, and even unknown private collections. The maps in these atlases could prove invaluable in providing unique views into the past. Historical atlases are of potential interest to a broad range of users, including scientists, researchers, historians, and general map users who are looking for a snapshot of the atlas area or subject at a specific time or as part of a trend over time. Atlases often offer a more in-depth explanation of the subjects mapped by including supporting text, graphs, illustrations, photographs, and tables. As a compendium of maps, atlases provide a comprehensive view of the mapped area through concise but detailed information about a variety of subjects. While many scientific agencies, map publishers, and libraries recognize the need for access to historical atlases, but they may not have the resources or knowledge to provide this access. If these atlases can and should be preserved, how should that be donewhat is the process for doing that—what is involved in creating an atlas today? Some believe that we are transitioning from the Information Age to the Hybrid Age in a technological revolution distinguished by ubiquitous computing, intelligent machines, social technologies, integrated scientific fields, and rapidly-adaptive development strategies. It is into this new age that we introduce a new kind of atlas—one that is itself ubiquitous, intelligent, social, and integrative. Web services provide easy access to the atlas content through ubiquitous computing on the a wide range of devices—smart phones, tablets, laptops, and more—trillions of other devices that are connected via the Internet. The user interface seamlessly integrates the maps and supporting content. The user experience supports intelligent exploration through contextual understanding, intuitive findability, and desirable comparison. Social media links provide useful opportunities to communicate and collaborate with others. Commenting, bookmarking, and note taking provide valuable capabilities for increased usability. To demonstrate this new approach to atlas mapping, we use a case study based on a historical atlas of a strategic assessment of the coastal and ocean zones of three arctic seas. The original atlas had approximately 200 pages with more than 110 chapters that included large-format maps, text, and graphics assembled in a hardcover binder approximately two feet high by three feet wide. The atlas pages were scanned, then the maps were georeferenced, the text was converted to digital format, and the graphics were converted to images. All these atlas elements were reassembled in a web app that disseminates the atlas content with credibility, added value, appreciable usability, and creative utility. The resulting, fully-citable set of digital maps and web services brings this important historical document to life, preserving the past and providing knowledge for current and future generations of users.