Glen Hiemstra, Founder and CEO of Futurist.com presents the closing Keynote to the annual meeting of the Virginia Cable TV Association on Nov. 12, 2013 in Williamsburg, Virginia. Glen reviews the most important events, trends, and developments shaping the coming decade, from customer demographics to sustainability and home security, to economic disparity and ability to pay, to industry churn and the issues of privacy and transparency. The major focus is the future of technology including 3D connectivity, internet of things, artificial intelligence, quantified health, big data, new currencies, and more.

1. futurist.com
glen@futurist.com
twitter.com/glenhiemstra

2. what is your image
of the future?

5. mobile
video
big
data
local
social
cloud
content
OTT

6. most planning is a search for more
efficient past...
rather than search for new future

7. the future creates the present…

8. full-on networked society

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per%test%and%takes%five%
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also%poten+ally%be%used%
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lung%cancer,%both%of%
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mesothelin.
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demographic dynamics
sustainability imperative
economic disparity
technology acceleration
industry churn
transparency

12. 27%Florida’s%by%2025
States%where%at%least%20%%of
The%popula+on%will%be%elderly

13. median age of native-born
Latinos is 18
 median age all Latinos is 27
vs. 42 for non-Hispanic
whites in U.S.
 67,000 U.S. Latinos turn 18
each month, (93% are
citizens)
 40% of U.S. population
growth 2013-2030 will be
Hispanic (77% of growth will
be minorities)
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14. Millennial workers 18-31 years old
 Comfortable with diversity, globalization, 24/7
connectivity, rapid change
 50% would rather have no job than hate their job
 Expect fast advancement, high expectations
 Want variety
 Skilled at information seeking


15. 1980M2000
Birth%1991:
%PCs%are%10%years%old
Age%2:%World%Wide%Web
Age%5:%Google
Age%10:%Fist%iPod%sold
Age%9:%Blogs
Age%8:%Napster
Age%14:%YouTube
Age%22%
3D%%Kinected%
Tweeted%World
Age%13:%Facebook

16. digital natives
digital
immigrants
Marc Prensky originated
“digital native” term and this list
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17. digital immigrants

18. people of the screen do not
accept old limitations...
Based%on:%Gerd%Leonhard

21. bring your own brain

22. sustainability imperative

23. the canary

24. security | resilience

25. 9 seconds of sun = 1 day of
all humanity’s energy use

26. solar roadways

27. jobs ... to
stints

29. constant
search

30. technology
acceleration

31. connectivity | convergence | 3D
nano | bio | info | cogno | robo

32. really smart coming on fast

33. In the next 20 years PC’s will be
replaced by millions of tiny
intelligent systems embedded in
our clothes, jewelry, cars,
furniture, and walls. They will
recognize voice commands and
carry out simple wishes. They
will cost less than a penny, less
than scrap paper, so companies
which do not put chips
[intelligence] in all their products
will be at a severe disadvantage.
Michio Kaku

34. Game Changers

35. quantified
heatlh

36. the end of massvertising

37. from ads to content in context...

38. data is the new oil...

39. It’s%a%revolu+on,”%says%Gary%King,%director%of%
Harvard’s%Ins+tute%for%Quan+ta+ve%Social%Science.%
“We’re%really%just%gebng%under%way.%But%the%march%
of%quan+fica+on,%made%possible%by%enormous%new%
sources%of%data,%will%sweep%through%academia,%
business%and%government.%There%is%no%area%that%is%
going%to%be%untouched.”%(NYT,%2012)

40. reality:
people buy differently

41. world’s first bitcoin atm in vancouver bc
Jackson Warren (left) and Mitchell Demeter examine the Robocoin. Photo: David Ryder/WIRED

42. fly me to the moon

43. transparency

44. what is your image
of the future?

45. knowledge value
it’s what a
product or
service - or
person knows

46. the future is
something we do
the future is not
something that
just happens to us

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twitter.com/glenhiemstra
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