L01 new technology course description

New Technology 2012

Course Introduction

Copyright © 2012 Ólafur Andri Ragnarsson 1

Teacher
 Ólafur Andri Ragnarsson
– Adjunct at Reykjavik University – since 1989
– Chief Software Architect, Betware – since 1998

– andri@ru.is
– http://www.olafurandri.com
– http://twitter.com/olandri
– http://delicious.com/olandri

– Office hours after Friday lecture


Course Content
Study of Technology
Technology Innovations
Evolution of Technology
Technology Adoption
Disruptive Technology
Surviving Technology
Technology Trends
Mobile Communication
Wireless Machines that Count
Personal Comptuers Operating Systems TV
Local
Human Computer Interfaces Social
Gamification The Internet
Computer games
Future Trends New Business models

Study of Technology

What does technology mean?

How do we define technology?


Technology Innovations
How does innovation happen?

Why are things invented when they are?

Does science fiction influence technology?


Evolution of Technology
How does technology evolve?

When will Moore’s Law end?

Technology Life Cycle
Crossing the Chasm


Adoption of Technology
Why do people adopt new technology?

Why do good technologies fail and inferior succeed?

What are customers buying?


Disruptive Technology
Technologies that change everything

Why do businesses always fail to respond?

Reactions to disruptive technologies


Surviving Technology
Making all the right decisions and still failing

Why listening to your customers is fatal

The Innovator’s dilemma


Technology Trends
Can we track and understand technology trends?

The Prevailing Technology Trap

Principles of Disruptive Innovations


Communications
The ultimate market

Those who have access
to information tend to win

Telegraph, telephone,
wireless transmissions,
broadcasting


Mobile
Cellular networks

Generations

Smartphones

The iPhone effect


Wireless
The Wi-Fi revolution

Standards

RFID

Near-field communications


Machines that Count
From adding machines to
electronic brains to
general purpose computers

Disruption of Automation

Birth of the IT industry


Personal Computers
MITS Altair 8800

Birth of Microsoft

Apple Computer and the two Steves

How IBM created an industry


Operating Systems
Xerox Parc

The DEMO of the Century

Beginning of GUIs

OS for the consumers


Human Computer Interfaces

Beyond the Desktop

Touch, gesture and audio

New User Interfaces

Displays anywhere


TV

The transformation of the
TV industry is beginning

TV of the Future


The Internet

The Accidental network

Brief History of the Internet

The Future of the Internet


Social

P2P
UGC

Collaboration

Crowdsourcing

The Long Tail

Folksonomy


Local

Checking in

Mining the digital footprint

Exploiting context

Machine learning


New Business Models

The Business of Music

Beyond selling digital copies

Freeconomics

Freemiums


Computer Games

The rise of computer games

The crash of 1986
Casual games
Multiplayer games

Serious games

Future of games


Gamification

Getting people to do stuff they don’t like

Status and rewards

Player types

Player emotions


Future Trends
What’s next?

Genetics, nanotechnology and robotics

Virtual reality is
more real than reality

Your phone will tell you
what you need to know


Reading
 Textbook
– There is no printed text book
– New Technology text available
as PDF
– Reading material are articles
or videos from the Internet
– Some are posted on http://olafurandri.com
 Reading is either required or optional
– All readings will be posted on the course web


Interesting Books
 Engines That Move Markets
– Alasdair Nairn
 The Innovators Dilemma
– Clayton M. Christensen
 Crossing the Chasm
– Geoffrey A. Moore
 The Tipping Point
– Malcolm Gladwell
 The Invisible Computer
– Donald A. Norman

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Interesting Books
 Where do good ideas
come from
– Steve Johnson
 What Technology Wants
– Kevin Kelly
 Reality is Broken
– Jane McGonigal
 The Singularity is Near
– Ray Kurzweil
 The Future of the Internet
and how to Stop it
– Jonathan Zittrain
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Interesting Web Sites
 Economist - http://www.economist.com
 Technology Review -
http://www.technologyreview.com
 NY Times - http://www.nytimes.com
 Businessweek - http://www.businessweek.com/
 ZDNet technology News - http://news.zdnet.com/
 CNet - http://www.cnet.com/ (news.cnet.com)
 Google News - http://news.google.com
 Yahoo Finance News - http://finance.yahoo.com/
 Ars Technica - http://arstechnica.com/
 Wired - http://www.wired.com/
 Guardian - http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology
http://www.olafurandri.com/?page_id=1490

Grading
 Exams
– Three exams in class 20% (10% each)
 Study exercises
– Short in-class exercises 10%
 Assignments
– Two assignments 20% (10% each)
 Paper Peer-review
– Review of paper and comments 10%
 Research Paper
– Research of a particular topic 40%


Research
 Objectives
– Term project
– Study or research of a particular topic chosen by the
student
– Must be approved by the teacher
 Area of study
– Can be a device, a concept, a trend, a
standard, philosophy or a metaphor, or a particular
product
– Gather information and write a paper
– Best papers will be published
 Your research starts now!

Research
 These milestones are set:
– Topic selection is due 10.02
– Goals and outline are due 24.02
– Draft for Peer Review is due 09.03
– Peer-Review is due 16.03
– Paper is due 23.03 at 17:00

 Research Paper is an individual work and is
40% of the course grade
– Draft and Peer-review is 10%


Research Study Group
 Group of 4-5 students
– Will read your paper and give you review
– Valuable service
– Peer review


Web Site
 Course Web Site in MySchool

 Teacher’s web site: http://www.olafurandri.com
– Twitter: @olandri #nyti


Timeplan (stundaskrá)


Laptops
 Laptops and other communication devices
are forbidden in class
– You don’t need them!


Prerequisite
 None... except


Prerequisite
 No programming required
 Interest in technology and social change is
recommended
 Qualification test
– 2001 Space Odyssey
– The Matrix
– Minority Report
• http://www.minorityreport.com/


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