This document provides an overview of key technology trends and topics from Mike Butcher's perspective. It discusses emerging areas like health tech, wearables, privacy, drones, internet of things, smart cities, and more. It also covers future technologies such as graphene, memristors, battery tech, quantum computing, AI, blockchain, and implications of these advances. The document emphasizes that technology is rapidly changing and digital platforms are disrupting traditional industries by controlling interfaces rather than assets.

1. Mike Butcher
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2. TechHub.com
Coadec.com
The Soma Salon
Facebook.com/groups/TheSomaSalon
The Europas Awards & Conference
Political Party?

4. London’s Eastern Tech
Startup Cluster in 2009

5. Only 2 years later

6. ‘Silicon Allee’ in Berlin

7. ‘Silicon Sentier’ in Paris

8. In fact, we can graph this:

9. Startups are sexy!

10. Geeks in
Fashion
Magazines?!

11. Key Tech Trends

12. Key Tech Trends
• Health and technology: Apple Watch and
Health kit will make this mainstream

13. • Wearables: Over 30% of the ‘Wearables’ market
will simply be Smart Watches.

14. • Live video streaming, is
HOT.
• Meerkat
• Periscope
• TV Rights?!

15. • Privacy & distrust.
• Privacy is therefore an
opportunity
• Zendo
• Wickr

16. • Virtual and augmented
reality

17. • MOBILE, MOBILE,
MOBILE!
• By 2017, mobile phone
penetration will rise to
69.4% of the global
population
• People spend an average
of 89% of media time in
mobile on apps
• Verizon / Aol…

18. • Mobile Payments: Apple Pay is live in
220,000 outlets in the US

19. • Connected Vehicles: Tesla already updates
its cars’ software over-the-air to improve
performance.
• Apple reportedly working on ‘Project Titan’ to
develop car technologies (or even an actual
car).
• Driverless vehicles inside 5 years.

20. • Drones:
Emerging world
Deliveries
Agriculture
Industry
Ground drones?

21. • Internet of Things:
Smart locks, air conditioners, speakers, cooking
appliances, tracking inventory etc
Smarter homes

22. Key Mobile App Trends
• “Sharing economy” (travel and
transportation) apps grew 30% year-over-
year.
• Mobile video streaming app downloads
grew 44% year-over-year.
• Games based on movies and TV shows still
ranked in the top 10 games by downloads.

23. • Smart Cities: (Qualcommmmmm…)

24. Corporates (oh dear)
• Most Public companies unable to innovate.
• Unicorns are rampant: Uber owning transport,
AirBnB owning housing etc
• Many public company PE ratios don’t stack up
• Corporate accelerators don’t rebuild the
mothership
• AT&T didn’t buy Twilio and now it’s about to
IPO

25. On the Horizon
• Humans As Platform:
Biohacking and
transhumanist advances
(including
nootropics/smart drugs,
extended longevity,
implants etc)
• Biohacking technologies
are like genetic
enhancement

26. On the Horizon
• Graphene:
• Graphene is an
allotrope of
carbon in the form
of a two-
dimensional,
atomic-scale,
hexagonal lattice
in which one atom
forms each
vertex.

27. On the Horizon
• Memristors: This can pave the way for
computers that will instantly turn on and off like
a light bulb and never lose data: the RAM, or
memory, will no longer be erased when the
machine is turned off, without the need to save
anything to hard drives as with current
technology

28. On the Horizon
• Battery-tech

29. On the Horizon
• Quantum computing: Has the potential for
things like drug discovery, drug design,
chemical design, and bio-hacking,
you name it.

30. On the Horizon
• Smart Lens: Google is now testing a smart
contact lens that’s built to measure glucose
levels in tears (diabetes)

31. On the Horizon
• Imagine: you go to the
Apple retail store and get
injected.

32. “The Interface Is
Where the Profit Is”
• “Uber, the world’s largest
taxi company, owns no
vehicles. Facebook, the
world’s most popular
media owner, creates no
content. Alibaba, the most
valuable retailer, has no
inventory. And Airbnb, the
world’s largest
accommodation provider,
owns no real estate.
• Tom Goodwin,
Havas Media.

33. Kurzwell
• (Singularity University)
• 2010s, glasses will beam images directly onto
the retina.
• 2020s driveless cars
• 2030 Virtual reality IS reality
• 2040s non-biological intelligence a billion
times more capable than biological
intelligence
• 2045, we will multiply our intelligence a
billionfold by linking wirelessly from our
neocortex to a synthetic neocortex in the
cloud.

35. On the Horizon
• Artificial Intelligence:
Google DeepMind in
London has developed
“Deep Q” which can learn
and adapt to unexpected
things. These types of
systems are more human-
like in the way they learn.
• Up to 60% of human work
will, within 20 years, be
entirely replaced by
machines.

36. Blockchain
• With Blockchain as the verification layer,
means you could retrofit the Internet with an
ownership layer

37. Blockchain
• Solve ownership of content online

38. Blockchain
• Art, antique and collectibles market has
around 50€ Billion in turnover annually. 1.5
times bigger than the entire advertising
market

39. As you can see, things are only going to get
more complicated.

40. Your next startup?
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41. @MikeButcher