David Orban


The Evolving Data
     Sphere
   H+ Summit @ Harvard
     12-13 June, 2010
What Will Keep You
    Human?
David Orban
 Chairman, Humanity+
  twitter @davidorban
david@humanityplus.org




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What
Fred Armitage




             William Gibson
The future is already here. It is just not evenly distributed yet
Aswers beget questions


   Questions             Ignorance




                                 Kevin Kelly - kk.org
               Answers
What Do We Know?




                   Gaspa
What’s On Your Radar




                 Banksy / Robbiedangerous
Spime = SPace + tIME




    Bruce Sterling
Evolving Devices
1
A Granular World

 IPv4     ≈   10 9


 IPv6     ≈   10 38


Atoms     ≈   10 80
Drawing Fine Lines




                     Wonderlane
2
Necessary Autonomy
    Platform       Orders of magnitude

      PCs                ≈ 108

Mobiles ~ Humans         ≈ 109

     Spimes              > 1012
Around Us Already




                    Ryan Harvey
3
Network Evolution
Generation    Isotropy       Access

   Web          data        knowledge

 Web 2.0     applications     social

  Spimes       sensors        world
Redundancy Needed




                    NASA JPL
4
Changing Dialog
       Generation                 Bandwidth                M2M Index

      Industrial apps                 Kb/s                       1%

      Realtime Web                    Mb/s                      10%

    Spime Networks                    Gb/s                     99%+


M2M index: M2M/M2H, communications among machine in proportion to those with humans
Decision making




                  µµ
5
Not blind anymore

  Object       # sensors


Mobile phone      10


    Car         50-100
Awareness




            Volvo
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Who
kandinski




 Bruce Sterling
Forget trying to pass for normal
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<3>
Why
rosetechven.com




      David Rose
Integrity is the most important value
The Anthropocene
                1%    2%




 terrestrial                 humans
vertebrates                    pets
in the wild                   cattle



               99%     98%




        10.000 BC    Today
Unsustainable




                badjonni
Sense The World




                  bazusa
Sensing The Technium




                       Nite Owl
Adapt




        aussiegirl
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Examples
claren44




             Larry Smarr
Failure of imagination is a fundamental human defect
Current
• Spreading the Idea.         Involve people.

  First Quarter Action Plan
Future
Transportation




                 A.M. Kuchling
4G Communication




                   rmforall
Energy




         joyseyshowaa
Quantified Self




                 I Don’t Know Maybe
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<5>
When
Randy Stewart




          Bre Pettis
Things are changing faster than we can die
A process, not an event

1 < IoT< 25
Advanced Collaboration




                         Foxtongue
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What
should
happen
David Orban




                      Alex Lightman
In the future many groups will rule the world for 15 minutes
Earth




        Aussiegirl
Strange Place And Time




                         aussiegirl
Planetary Co-evolution




                         will_hybrid
Free To Be Human




                   me’nthedogs
Humanity+




            bingbing
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The Evolving Data Sphere - David Orban - H+ Summit @ Harvard