The document outlines predictions for the Internet of Everything era across three main themes: hyperaware, predictive, and agile. It predicts that by 2025, devices will harvest their own power and sensor densities of 10,000 per room will be common. Big data will help with decision-making. A more connected world will fundamentally change how people live and work, requiring adaptability to disruption and new business models.

1. Top Predictions for the
Internet of Everything Era
Joseph M. Bradley
Vice President, IoE Practice, Cisco Consulting Services
February 23, 2015

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 Hyperaware:
A heightened sense of self and objects
beyond our imagination
 Predictive:
Big Judgment will come from Big Data
helping us to answer and make the Big
Decisions in our life and business
 Agile:
Accepting and adapting to change will
be more important than ever;
Being a more connected world will
fundamentally challenge, disrupt and
shape how we think, live, work, learn,
and play

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Hyperaware
A heightened sense of self and objects beyond what we can possibly imagine.

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 The battery life of
a mobile phone
will increase:
1,000% to 10 days
 Ultimately a smartphone
will harvest energy to
charge themselves
This Year…

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 If it doesn’t work
on mobile,
it doesn’t work
In the next 5 years…
Mobility will become the Heartbeat of Humanity

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 Intelligence can be put
into almost anything.
By 2020…
Smart Device Will Be Almost Invisible

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 Commercial deployment of
dust-sized mesh network
sensors will be common
 Networks will be run by
scavenging enough energy
from surrounding
environments
 Nano sensor densities of
10,000+ per room will be
achieved
By 2025…
Power for Devices will Become like the Air We Breathe…

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 Almost 70% of the human body will be covered
with connected wearables
 Sensors will drive 40% of Internet
traffic
By 2020…
We Become More Connected

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Computing power will be
closer than ever to the
human brain’s
processing speed
By 2025…
Computing Power = Brain Power

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 Internet moves into
space and other
planets
 Nano-satellites will
proliferate in space
By 2025…
Our awareness and influence will expand beyond
today’s earthly, physical and mental boundaries

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 90% of the cars will
be connected --
working together to
safely transport
people
 People will be able to
“drive” for nearly their
entire lives
By 2020…
Driving Will Be Obsolete

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Worldwide Internet Access Will Replace GDP as a Key
Economic Metric
Half of the 219
billion
unconnected
devices in the
manufacturing
sector will be “lit
up” (connected to
the Internet and
generating useful
data)

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 Connected devices will
track children within
inches of their
true location
In the Next 10 years…
“No Child Lost” Will Become a Reality

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Predictive
Big Judgment will come from Big Data, helping people make the right
decisions about the biggest questions in life and in business.

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 Consumerism…
Things will
arrive before you know
they’re needed
 Advertising…
 We will see 50% fewer ads
 The ones we do see will
be 90% relevant
By 2025…
The Network will Become Contextually Aware

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• Success or failure will be measured in
days rather than months
• Sports debates will end
• Financial decisions will become easier

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Contextually-Aware Networks Will Permeate Other
Industries, Disciplines, and Aspects of Our Lives…
Based on your child’s
Digital Persona…
• He or she will
be able to
attend a
virtual/physical
school tailored
to his or her
personality
and learning
style
• Dating will be based on mutual
compatibility rather than chance

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…will replace
your credit
score since it
will more
accurately
reflect who
you really are
Your Digital Persona…

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Agile
A more connected world will fundamentally change how we live, work, learn,
and play. Accepting and adapting to change will be more important than ever.
New business models will challenge, disrupt, and shape value creation,
investment strategies, business cultures, and corporate structures.

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 When the answers are
known…leaders will be
rewarded based on the
questions they ask rather
than the answers they give
 Creativity will be more
important than memorization
Digital Transformation Requires New Leadership Skills
and Ways of Thinking

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 Leaders will cope
with more
ambiguity
 Product creation
will become more
multi-disciplinary
Organizations Will Be Less Hierarchical

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 Only 5 of the
top 6 IT
players today
will exist
 In 25 years,
only one-third
of all major
enterprise
companies
will exist
In 5 years…
There will be brutal consolidation in IT
and Among Enterprises

23. By 2020…
Cisco will be the
#1 IT company

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…the first machine-generated
applications will emerge

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By 2020…
The First Fully Crowd-Run Business will be a Reality

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 51% of the available talent
required to succeed in the
digital world will be
freelance workers
In 5 years…A New Business Model for Unobstructed
Innovation Will Emerge

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…from being the
correct things to
do, to being the
profitable thing to
do.
Diversity and Inclusion Will Change...

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• Your primary physician may be
named, “Dr. Watson”
• Will free human doctors to expand
quality care worldwide
• Will create 500,000 software
programming jobs

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