This document discusses the exponential growth of technology and its potential to disrupt industries and change lives through convergence of various technological domains like AI, biotech, and 3D printing. It emphasizes themes of openness and innovation, showcasing examples of DIY and co-creation initiatives across diverse fields. The overall message highlights that as technology advances, it will deepen our understanding of ourselves and the world around us.

1. Yuri van Geest
@vangeest (Twitter)
06-113 19 290
Yuri.vanGeest@SingularityU.org
August 7th
2013
Inspiration Session
Future technologies

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Who am I?

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Exponential growth of technology
will disrupt your industry and
change your life.

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EXPONENTIAL GROWTH &
THE LAW OF ACCELERATING RETURNS
Credit: Ray Kurzweil and KurzweilAI.net

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Technological Domains
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Bits Genes
Atoms Neurons
Strongly
influencing
each other
People
Goods
Organisms
DIY & P2P metatrends
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Bank Simple - DIY Banking
Do-it-Yourself

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Soylent - DIY Produce
Do-it-Yourself

12. ABUNDANCE

13. • Blogs (2003) / Typepad
• Photos (2004) / Flickr
• Videos (2005) / YouTube
• Tweets (2007) / Twitter
• Location (2009) / FourSquare
• Personal Health Data (2012) / Quantified Self (Nike Fuel)
• DNA (2013) / 23AndMe
• Brain (2015?) / NeuroSky
From the Outside World to our Inside Worlds
Evolution: More Openness
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14. We Make The Invisible
Visible and Social
Planned Serendipity
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Innovation
Lean Startup - Experiment & Test

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Local Food Lab - Startup Incubators
Innovation

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ICT & mobile technology
‘Technology leveraging the internet to
enable access to products and services.’

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Square - Mobile Payment solutions

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Mobile Payment - Overview

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GoPago - Location based services

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LendingClub - Micro financing / Loans

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Kickstarter - Crowdfunding

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eToro - Crowdsourcing

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Quirky - Co-creation & Crowdsourcing

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Khan Academy - MOOCs / Education

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ProPath - Personal Performance Dashboard

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ICT & mobile technology
| New Interfaces

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Google Glass - Heads-up Display

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Leap Motion - Gesture control

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Sensoring
‘Electronic devices used to detect or sense a
signal or a physical condition and respond to
this.’

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Biometrics

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InsideTracker - Quantified Self

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LifeWatch V - QS Sensor Phone

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MC10 - Nano Tattoos

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Galvanic PIP - Stress & Relaxation

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Scanadu Scout - Medical Tricorder

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3D printing / Manufacturing
‘Additive process of making a three-
dimensional solid object of virtually any
shape from a digital model.’

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3D Systems - 3D printing

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Contour Crafting - 3D manufacturing

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TechShop - DIY/Hackerspaces

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Imagine 3D printer - Food printing

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Chemputer - 3D printed Pills

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Organovo - 3D printed Cells & Organs

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Artificial Intelligence
‘Computer science concerned with making
machines and software behave like humans.’

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Watson - Information delivery

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Google Now - Assistance & advice

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Moto X Smartphone - Sensors & AI

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Palantir - Big Data & Algorithms

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Beyond Verbal - Voice Pattern Recognition

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Google Car - Autonomous vehicles

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Neurotech
‘Technology to understand, improve and
repair the brain and various aspects of
consciousness and thought.’

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ThirdSight - Facial coding

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Affectiva - Expression Recognition

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NeuroSky - Brain-computer Interface

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Ogilvy & Myndplay - Neurotech Marketing

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TDCS - Brain stimulation

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Valkee - Mood Stimulation

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Robotics
‘Technology that deals with the design,
construction and programming of robots and
computer systems.’

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Baxter - Customizable Robot

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Swarm Robots

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Boston Dynamics - Petman

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Robot Prosthetics

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Drones
‘Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) controlled
remotely by a human or autonomously by
computers.’

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Team BlackSheep

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Drone Initiatives

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Matternet - Drone Transport

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Biotech
‘Technological applications that use living
systems and organisms to develop or make
useful products.’

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23andMe - DNA sequencing

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PulseNet (CDC) - DNA Fingerprinting Food

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Modern Meadow - 3D printed Meat

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uBiome - Microbiome sequencing

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BioCurious - DIY/Hackerspaces for Biotech

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Synthetic Biology

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Nanotech
‘Manipulating and engineering functional
systems from matter on a molecular scale.’

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Graphene - Nano Materials

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Tufts University - Edible Nano Sensors

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New energy & sustainability
‘Innovative systems that provide renewable
and sustainable energy or production so it
will minimally affect our environment.’

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Slingshot - Water Purifier

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Alta Devices - Greener Energy

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Masdar City - Smart Cities

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82. Biology & Technology
Man & Machine
slowly merge

83. We Make The Invisible
Visible and Social
Planned Serendipity and
Synchronicity
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84. Connected World
Key Enabler of
Intention Economy / VRM
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85. “Man knows himself only to the extent that he
knows the world; he becomes aware of
himself only within the world, and aware of
the world only within himself.”
“Every object, well contemplated, opens up a
new organ of perception within us.”
(Goethe)
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86. We will become more of
ourselves and more
(uniquely) human (creative,
bottom up, purpose, soul,
passion, connected)
Burning Man86

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Exponential growth of technology
will disrupt your industry and
change your life.

88. Yuri van Geest
@vangeest
+31 6 113 19 290
yurivangeest@gmail.com
Thank you!