1. Management and Leadership
in Health
and Humanitarianism
Class 7: Understanding Futures – Technology
A module of the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute
Eric JAMES, PhD
27 January 2013

2. Learning Objectives:
• Become familiar with the latest cutting-edge advancements in
technology that have a global social impact
• Gain a basic understanding of how these advances may disrupt health
and humanitarianism

4. What we take for granted: the telephone

5. Now…a medical device?
Credit: Daniel Kraft, MD

6. Encyclopedia of
medical knowledge
Health Apps and ‘Quantified Self’
Electronic
Self-Testing
Instruments
Cardiology
AliveCor iPhone ECG
Glucose Meter
iBGStar

7. Commercially available this decade
IBM Watson as
an AI Physician
Tattooed sensors
monitor heart, brain
and other activity
Ingestible
imaging
devices
Bionics
Source: Daniel Kraft, MD

8. How are we taught to think in
school?
Let’s take 30 steps…
Linear: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5…30
Exponential: 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32…
until 1,073,741,824 (i.e. 2³⁰)!!!

10. History of
Technology
Source: Peter
Diamandis

11. Exponential growth and law of accelerating
returns

12. Mobile devices
disrupting
banking and
commerce
Self-driving vehicles
Artificial
Intelligence
3D and additive
manufacturing
Robotics
Telemedicine

14. Thanks and ‘see’ you online