A conversation about interesting future technology, by Glen Hiemstra, futurist speaker and Founder, Futurist.com. Presented to a Technology Executive Roundtable conducted by Woods Creek Consulting, in Bellevue, Washington, March 2009. The program was video-intensive and several slides are only transitions into videos, not viewable here. For more info contact www.futurist.com

1. Toward 2020:
Interesting Tech
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2. Business Week:
20 Inventions for Next 10 Years
Ocean-driven hydropower Smarter crowdsourcing
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Miniaturized medical devices Social media literacy
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3D Printing New banking systems from
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individual to the top of the global
Even smarter apps for mobile
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devices Pop-up businessess
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Next-gen biofuels Reformed urban transit systems
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- featuring shared electric
Electric avenues - network of
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vehicles for last mile
auto charging stations
Cure for Alzheimer’s
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Truly on-demand
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entertainment Pop-up housing
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Nanotech computing Super high-speed internet
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Learning to feel the force - Supercharged batteries -
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mind control of objects nanobatteries
Body power - generating local Cure for cancer
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electricity based on biology ©

3. What Is Your Image
Of The Future?
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4. What Is Your Image Of The Future?
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5. A Survey from TrendWatching®
Trendwatching.com
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6. People formerly known as
consumers
It’s only just begun
Based on Trendwatching.com
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7. Twitter: Next Thing or Tipping Point to a
Meaning-Free Future?
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8. Lesson 4: Energy and Environment
Tipping Points are changing everything
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9. 2008 IEA World Energy Outlook
50 mbd additional output needed by 2020
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10. Solar Future
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11. Nanotechnology
Not just small things, but things with different
properties because of nanoscale
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12. Konarka Technologies, Technology Review July/August 2004
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NanoSolar.com

13. Nanobatteries
Altairnano
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15. UCSD: PC of 2015
One Hundred Million Pixels
Connected at 10Gbps
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16. AORTA Technology Rules
6th Sense
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17. 6th Sense
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18. Intrago Mobility
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21. Knowledge Value Economy
Rapid
Debt
Innovation
Drag
Technology
Convergence
It’s what Global
Product or Learning
Service Competition
Knows
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22. Three Future Questions
What is
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Probable?
 What is
Possible?
 What is
Preferred?
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23. Smart Money:
Innovations that would change the world?
 Nano-solar and nano-batteries
at economical level
 Wireless nano-paper that
delivers all content
 Nano-med machines, devices
 Singularity-level AI
 Physics discovery such as
tapping dark matter or zero
point energy
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24. Paradigm: The way we do things around here
We should move To…
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We should move From…
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25. The future is
something
we do.
The future is not
something that just
Glen Hiemstra
happens to us. Futurist.com
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