The document discusses the evolution of different forms of communication and their impacts on human culture and society.
Speech enabled tribes with 10^7 bits of information, while writing led to city cultures with 10^11 bits enabled by printing and the Renaissance. The digital age now provides 10^25 bits but the impact on culture is still unknown. ICT is transforming work and requiring new skills while also enabling new forms of leaderless social movements and revolutions organized through social media. Overall technology and information availability is accelerating changes to society and culture at an increasing pace.
Economic Impact of Digital Revolution_JM_073015JIM MUKERJEE
Paper for Oxford University (Merton College) course on "Did the Victors lose the Peace?", Summer 2015.
(International Relations & Economics, 1945-2015)
Economic Impact of Digital Revolution_JM_073015JIM MUKERJEE
Paper for Oxford University (Merton College) course on "Did the Victors lose the Peace?", Summer 2015.
(International Relations & Economics, 1945-2015)
Presentation by David Wood of London Futurists at Transvision 2014, Paris, 20th Nov: Accelerating technology and increasing inequality. With Appendix slide covering Q&A at the event.
The latest in learning philosophy and technology, ICT and the Zettacosm, and the ICT trends and web 2.0 technologies that comprise the Learning 2.0 Ecosystem.
The disruptive impact of technology can either be interpreted as a dangerously destabilizing force or as an open door for creative change. In either case, there are winners and losers. It is difficult to ignore the disruptive aspects of technology in 2011. The bankruptcy of Borders, the US bookstore chain, was testimony both to the growing proliferation of e-readers like the iPad and the Kindle, and to the giant conglomerate’s failure to adjust to market changes quickly enough. It also raised serious questions about the future of the giant bricks-and-mortar discount chains when consumers can easily compare prices and order on line. Blockbuster, which had built its movie rental business on the ability of its networked computers to predict which movies were likely to be the most popular, suffered a similar fate. This time it was the consumer shift to watching streaming videos online. Conventional TV and cable companies also felt the pressure. Sony Pictures, which had cashed in on the growing fascination with gaming online and had turned out to be a major hit with its PlayStation network, was forced to suspend operations for a month in April because it had not taken sufficient security precautions to protect its network. LulzSec, a group estimated to be six youthful hackers, cracked into Sony servers and stole passwords and confidential information concerning a million customers. Clean-up and insurance costs from the debacle were estimated at more than US$ 170 million.
The Internet grew out of US efforts to build the ARPANET, a network of peer computers built during the cold war. The two major players were military and academia. The network was simple and required no efforts for security or social responsibility. The early Internet community was mainly highly educated and respectable scientist. In the early 1990s the World Wide Web, a hypertext system is introduced, and soon browsers start to appear, leading the commercialization of Net. New businesses emerge and a technology boom known as the dot-com era.
The network, now over 40, is being stretched. Problems such as spam, viruses, antisocial behaviour, and demands for more content are prompting reinvention of the Net and threatening its neutrality. Add to this government efforts to regulate and limit the network.
In this lecture we look at the Internet and the impact of the network. We will also look at the future of the Internet.
The Internet grew out of US efforts to build the ARPANET, a network of peer computers built during the cold war. The two major players were military and academia. The network was simple and required no efforts for security or social responsibility. The early Internet community was mainly highly educated and respectable scientist. In the early 1990s the World Wide Web, a hypertext system is introduced, and soon browsers start to appear, leading the commercialization of Net. New businesses emerge and a technology boom known as the dot-com era.
The network, now over 40, is being stretched. Problems such as spam, viruses, antisocial behaviour, and demands for more content are prompting reinvention of the Net and threatening its neutrality. Add to this government efforts to regulate and limit the network.
In this lecture we look at the Internet and the impact of the network. We will also look at the future of the Internet.
Future Consumers & Internet - Roope Mokka @ Telecom ForumDemos Helsinki
Roope Mokka's presentation on human centric megatrends – narritive structures that move the world – for Aalto Universty's Telecom Forum. Find the video (60 min) of the lecture here: http://ecmedia.fi/a/tcf_2011/11_10_2011/tcf_11_10_2011osa1.wmv
http://ecmedia.fi/a/tcf_2011/11_10_2011/tcf_11_10_2011osa2.wmv
Presentation by David Wood of London Futurists at Transvision 2014, Paris, 20th Nov: Accelerating technology and increasing inequality. With Appendix slide covering Q&A at the event.
The latest in learning philosophy and technology, ICT and the Zettacosm, and the ICT trends and web 2.0 technologies that comprise the Learning 2.0 Ecosystem.
The disruptive impact of technology can either be interpreted as a dangerously destabilizing force or as an open door for creative change. In either case, there are winners and losers. It is difficult to ignore the disruptive aspects of technology in 2011. The bankruptcy of Borders, the US bookstore chain, was testimony both to the growing proliferation of e-readers like the iPad and the Kindle, and to the giant conglomerate’s failure to adjust to market changes quickly enough. It also raised serious questions about the future of the giant bricks-and-mortar discount chains when consumers can easily compare prices and order on line. Blockbuster, which had built its movie rental business on the ability of its networked computers to predict which movies were likely to be the most popular, suffered a similar fate. This time it was the consumer shift to watching streaming videos online. Conventional TV and cable companies also felt the pressure. Sony Pictures, which had cashed in on the growing fascination with gaming online and had turned out to be a major hit with its PlayStation network, was forced to suspend operations for a month in April because it had not taken sufficient security precautions to protect its network. LulzSec, a group estimated to be six youthful hackers, cracked into Sony servers and stole passwords and confidential information concerning a million customers. Clean-up and insurance costs from the debacle were estimated at more than US$ 170 million.
The Internet grew out of US efforts to build the ARPANET, a network of peer computers built during the cold war. The two major players were military and academia. The network was simple and required no efforts for security or social responsibility. The early Internet community was mainly highly educated and respectable scientist. In the early 1990s the World Wide Web, a hypertext system is introduced, and soon browsers start to appear, leading the commercialization of Net. New businesses emerge and a technology boom known as the dot-com era.
The network, now over 40, is being stretched. Problems such as spam, viruses, antisocial behaviour, and demands for more content are prompting reinvention of the Net and threatening its neutrality. Add to this government efforts to regulate and limit the network.
In this lecture we look at the Internet and the impact of the network. We will also look at the future of the Internet.
The Internet grew out of US efforts to build the ARPANET, a network of peer computers built during the cold war. The two major players were military and academia. The network was simple and required no efforts for security or social responsibility. The early Internet community was mainly highly educated and respectable scientist. In the early 1990s the World Wide Web, a hypertext system is introduced, and soon browsers start to appear, leading the commercialization of Net. New businesses emerge and a technology boom known as the dot-com era.
The network, now over 40, is being stretched. Problems such as spam, viruses, antisocial behaviour, and demands for more content are prompting reinvention of the Net and threatening its neutrality. Add to this government efforts to regulate and limit the network.
In this lecture we look at the Internet and the impact of the network. We will also look at the future of the Internet.
Future Consumers & Internet - Roope Mokka @ Telecom ForumDemos Helsinki
Roope Mokka's presentation on human centric megatrends – narritive structures that move the world – for Aalto Universty's Telecom Forum. Find the video (60 min) of the lecture here: http://ecmedia.fi/a/tcf_2011/11_10_2011/tcf_11_10_2011osa1.wmv
http://ecmedia.fi/a/tcf_2011/11_10_2011/tcf_11_10_2011osa2.wmv
Some Increasingly Significant Technology by 2050 for the European Commisssion...Jerome Glenn
This is an overview of future technology for consideration by the European Commission's KT (Knowledge Triangle: Innovation, Research, and Higher Education) 2050 Scenarios Group.
What's Next? Megatrends Shaping Tomorrow's Society and Rebooting DemocracyNino Lo Cascio
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Traditionally our technology has spoken for us, but these days the products have become so sophisticated that the technology is becoming imperceptible. With that step; our roles in them, the careers they present and the business opportunities all diminish. Out of sight is out of mind; and out of mind is de-prioritised.
Connected World 2019 - chair's opening commentsDavid Terrar
My slides setting the scene for the Connected World Summit 2019 an event covering Emerging Technology for Smart Cities, Connected Places & Tomorrow's Digital World. I covered how we live in exponential times. There has never been a time of greater promise of greater peril. We are dealing with a digital enterprise wave that, with AI, 5G, IoT and Blockchain is turning in top a Digital Tsunami. We are creating data faster than ever, but watch the numbers game and make sure you get your facts and ideas straight. Just like the parable of the 6 blind men and the elephant, everyone sees the connected world topic differently.
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A Strategic Approach: GenAI in EducationPeter Windle
Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies such as Generative AI, Image Generators and Large Language Models have had a dramatic impact on teaching, learning and assessment over the past 18 months. The most immediate threat AI posed was to Academic Integrity with Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) focusing their efforts on combating the use of GenAI in assessment. Guidelines were developed for staff and students, policies put in place too. Innovative educators have forged paths in the use of Generative AI for teaching, learning and assessments leading to pockets of transformation springing up across HEIs, often with little or no top-down guidance, support or direction.
This Gasta posits a strategic approach to integrating AI into HEIs to prepare staff, students and the curriculum for an evolving world and workplace. We will highlight the advantages of working with these technologies beyond the realm of teaching, learning and assessment by considering prompt engineering skills, industry impact, curriculum changes, and the need for staff upskilling. In contrast, not engaging strategically with Generative AI poses risks, including falling behind peers, missed opportunities and failing to ensure our graduates remain employable. The rapid evolution of AI technologies necessitates a proactive and strategic approach if we are to remain relevant.
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Read| The latest issue of The Challenger is here! We are thrilled to announce that our school paper has qualified for the NATIONAL SCHOOLS PRESS CONFERENCE (NSPC) 2024. Thank you for your unwavering support and trust. Dive into the stories that made us stand out!
This presentation includes basic of PCOS their pathology and treatment and also Ayurveda correlation of PCOS and Ayurvedic line of treatment mentioned in classics.
5. Euro debt crises come and go
True megatrends reshape our societies for good
Climate change and environmental sustainability
– A growing part of economic growth is going to be used on emission control and adaptation
to climate change
Global demographic change
– The average Finnish age is about 40 years
• Half of Finnish voters are pensioners - a retired nation
– In developing countries the great generations are becoming adults
• Every third Egyptian is under 15 years of age
Global networking and dependency
– The rise of BRIC countires to economic, cultural and military superpowers
New technologies are shaping our societies
– ICT now penetrates our societies
6. Dependency ratio collapses … right about now
People under 15 and over 65 years of age per 100 working age people
0-14 yr olds Over 65 yr olds
Statistics Finland
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7. Baby booms
Nationmaster.com
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8. E.g. robot baby seals were used to comfort elderly
Japanese who had lost everything in the tsunami
(NHK Video screenshot)
9. Helsinki city is testing care robots for the elderly
www.tieke.fi
Center for Intelligent Robotics KIST, Korea.
11. Sea levels are not starting to rise
Global warming art.
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12. How high do you live?
Global warming art.
Post glacial rebound in Southern Finland.
13. Running out
With current usage we run out of (New Scientist)
indium, terbium, hafnium and lead on this decade
silver, tin, antimony and uranium on next decade
Nickel, platinum, tantalum, zinc, chrome, copper and gold on this century
New technologies influence demand for raw materials
In 2003 a kilogram of indium cost $60, in 2006 $1000
Fuel cells require loads of platinum
– Street dust is already “mined” for platinum falling off from car catalysers
– 1,5 / 1.000.000 street dust particles can be platinum
Efficient solar cells would be on market if there were enough indium and gallium
China has 95% of know reserves of rare earths and controls also African mines
– The civil war in Congo is a war to control local tantalum mines
Economic growth has been based on expanding consumption of
raw materials and energy
Future growth has to be based on increasing raw material productivity
China is already buying and storing electronic waste
15. Finland was one of the winners of globalisation
Why make pulp and paper in Finland in the Future…
• from slowly growing expensive trees?
• far away from still growing paper markets?
• with Finnish labour costs?
15
Verace Sustainability Report 2006
16. The World in 2050’s
GDP billion US$
70.000
60.000
Goldman Sachs, ECS Research
50.000
40.000
30.000
Brazil
Russia
20.000
China
India
USA
10.000
• Asia returns to the centre of the World
• Europe misses its chance to stay a world power
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17. Waves of technology
Fusion
Globalisation society
GNP Biotech ?? yrs
Complexity society
Speed of change 25 yrs
Information
society
50 yrs
Industrial You are here!
society
Agricultural 250 yrs
socety
6000-7000 yrs
Mika Mannermaa
Government and education have trouble keeping up.
www.kasvi.org
18. Forecasting is difficult
”I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.”
Thomas Watson, IBM CEO ,1943.
”Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons.”
Popular Mechanics magazine on development of science, 1949.
”There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.”
Ken Olson, President of DEC, World Future Society Convention, 1977
"You aren't going to turn passive consumers into active
trollers on the Internet."
Stephen Weiswasser, senior VP, ABC television, 1989
"The Internet? Bah!"
Newsweek headline, 1995
Science fiction has often been more accurate than
respectable futures research
True Names, Vernor Vinge.
19. E.g. ”Brain pacer”
Science fiction has inspired developers of ICT
(True24.9.2009 Neuromancer, …)
Names, www.kasvi.org 19
20. Which society?
Information society
Information is the key mean, object and
result of culture and economy
ICT society
Emphasises the role of technology as definer os socety: ”The code is law.”
Ubiquitous society
Technology is omnipresent and transparent to its users.
Network society
Emphasises the role of social networks and networking.
Postmodern society
Post industrial society with overlapping meanings and perspecives.
Fusion society
ICT combined with nano, bio, gene and cognitive technologies
21. Evolution of Internet
1980’s: Internet is a network of computers
Still the technological definition of Internet: Network of computers using the
TCP/IP-protocol
1990’s: Internet is a network of information
Ted Nelson’s Xanadu
WWW = URL addres & HTTP protocol & HTML language
2000’s: Internet is a network of people
Social media
CC 2.0 Generic Attribution Robert Scolbe
Networking and sharing
Tim Berners-Leen WWW-palvelin.
2010’s: Internet becomes a
network of things
Ubiquitous society
Ipv6, rfid
22. The next 50 years
Industrial revolution had two stages
The first ~50 years the technology evolved
The next ~50 years that technology reshaped
the basic structures of our societies
Now ICT has penetrated our society in ~50 years
The structures created by industrial revolution are crumbling
The pace of technological and societal change is rapidly increasing
It took 100-120 yrs to build the global wired telephone network.
It took 10 yrs to build a corresponding global wireless phone network
It took 2-3 years for social media to become a global phenomenon
In ten years time anything can be in everyday use even if it has not been
invented yet.
A child going to school this autumn is going to be working in the 2070’s.
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23. Horst Zuse
The pace of change
has not slowed since
these days.
US Army Photo
7.4.2008
www.kasvi.org
23
24. Era of sharing
Information is like money. It creates new
information and benefits society only when
it is used and invested.
Money locked in a money bin is as useless
ase information stored in a closed database.
Governments are opening their databases
Improves government transparency and exposes corruption
Increases growth of data intensive service SME’s
Enhances cross-government data use
– In EU the direct savings potential is 40 billion €/y and indirect 100 billion
”Knowldedge is not power anymore, sharing of knowledge is.”
– Teemu Arina
“The best way to get value from data is to give it away”
– Neelie Kroes, Vice-President of the European Commission and Commissioner of the Digital Agenda
25. Open data: a public service created by active citizens:
Combines data scraped from labour office web pages with map data and public transport timetables.
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26. Free is the new black
The most popular mobile game in the world is free
Over one billion downloads
The most popular search engines, map services and email services are free
But Facebook and Google are not charities!
The most popular Internet multi player game is free
Over 35 million registered players
One of the most awarded comics in the world is free
E.g. Hugo in 2009, 2010 and 2011
The most watched Finnish movie is free
3,5 – 4 million downloads in 2 months
Technology has always improved productivity and cut prices,
now almost to nothing …
Free is a new way to make money!
27. Cumulonimbus
Data, software and data processing are being
tranferred from own servers to the cloud ...
Capital not tied to own hardware
– Enables flexible adaptation and development
Optimises computing power and resource use
– E.g. The proposed U.K G-Cloud was estimated to save CC SA Attribution Sugree
£3,2 billion per year
... and becoming on-demand services
When data and applications are in different clouds and you control the API’s you
can tender and change service providers
The cloud does not respect geographic border, but borders do matter
Client, service provider, data and porcessing may be in different countries
– E.g. Consumer protection, data security and privacy legislation are different
– Server location determines juridistiction
International rules do not exist and even national laws are outdated
Contracts and EULA’s
28. E.g. Cloud television
Broadcast-television is becoming an on-demand
cloud service
In 2010 NetFlix created 20% of US Internet traffic
Finnish law carefully avoids the subject of Internet
television
Control transfers from TV companies to viewers
Broadcast channels are left with news and current
issues
Television companies and authorities react slowly
New companies are ready to take over the TV market
Old IPR contracts do not cover ipTV
Pirates’ P2P networks are still popular with better
selection, quality and service than legal content
providers
29. Media revolution
Internet has already replaced television
Finns spend as much time in Internet as watching TV
Watcher controlled ipTV
E-readers replace papers and books
Bookstores are facing the fate of record stores
Games have been a bigger industry than movies for 10 years
Finnish game development industry needs 600 new employees every year.
Mail delivery is ending
Paper bills and newspapers are disappearing
30. CC 3.0 SA BY Sebastien Delorme
Cultural revolution
• Digital divide becomes activity divide
• ICT gives active people new means to be
even more active members of the society
• Gives passive people new means to be even more passive
• Digital culture is easily overlooked
• A whole Finnish generation was in Habbo Hotel and IRC Gallery before “old
media” and society caught on social media
• Over 100.000 Finns were playing Internet poker before society took notice.
• What cultural change is going on at the moment without us noticing it?
• Technological imperative
• Everybody has to be able to use ICT in order to be a member of society
• ICT and digital services have to available, accessible and usable
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32. Revolution in 160 characters
Spontaneous self managed civil CC 2.0 Generic Vincent Diamante
movements sprout in days
Viral revolution: An SMS ”Go 2 EDSA. Wear Blck” was partly
responsible to Estrada’s resignation in 2001
Finnish copyright law demonstrations
Politicians and authorities do not know how to handle
leaderless self organising “mobs”
“Who the f*** is organising this?”
Social media facilitated Arab Spring.
Frustrated digital vigilantes
A culture of shared values, methods and ethos instead of organisation
Attacking corporations, authorities, politicians and crime cartels
No legal protection or provision for complaint
34. CC 3.0 SA BY Heikki Valve
Digitalization penetrates work
”A harvester is just a PC in a special box.”
”It is hard to find ppl with programming skills to drive harvesters.”
35. Basic-
New competency requirements Program ming
Life management skills
Hot to fit work, family and life together
Competency management skills
Life long updating of competencies
Knowledge management skills
Information fatigue is a major occupational hazard in information society
What about ICT competencies?
ICT competencies should be self evident citizen skills
Even young people have trouble using computers for something else than social
media and gaming
36. CC 2.0 Share alike Attribution Deryck Hodge
Information society citizen skills
Basic ICT use skills
Lacking in every age group
Media reading and writing skills
Everybody can be a mass media
Journalistic principles and amateur media
Data security skills
You cannot trust even respected data security companies any more
Digital social capital
How to be civil in social media
How and where do we learn these skills?
Finland is one of the only countries in Europe where ICT is not compulsory at school
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37. The fun times are only beginning
By 2015:
ICT goes to cloud and becomes an
on-demand service
Consumer protection, data protection, legal protection
Augmented reality becomes everyday reality
Mobile devices are forerunners, next cars
Garage hackers are back
Current market leaders were once in garages, why not the next ones
By 2020:
ICT evolves and becomes cheaper
3D-printing brings manufacturing to homes
NFC revolutionalises payment industry like rfid did
logistics
Technological breakthroughs on other sciences
Neuroscience, bio- and genescience, nano technology, …
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