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.
Smartphones for futurists: What Smartphones Teach Us About the Radical Future of Technology,Business, & Society. Presentation by David Wood at the World Future 2014 event, Orlando Florida, 12th July 2014.
Please contact the author to invite him to present animated and/or extended versions of these slides in front of an audience of your choosing. (Commercial rates will apply for commercial settings.)
State of the Future 2015-16: Report from the Millennium ProjectDavid Wood
Slides used by David Wood, Chair of London Futurists, to preview the London Futurists event, http://www.meetup.com/London-Futurists/events/224799635/, held at Bloomberg HQ London on 13th November 2015. These slides are derived from a set created by Jerome C. Glenn, The Millennium Project. Topics include the State of the Future Index 1995-2025, 15 Global Challenges, the inevitability of New Economics, Technological Unemployment, and Basic Income Guarantee.
Slides presented by David Wood, Executive Director of Transpolitica, at the London Futurists event "Anticipating Tomorrow's Politics" on Saturday 21st March 2015. See http://www.meetup.com/London-Futurists/events/220967752/ for more about this meeting, and http://transpolitica.org/ for more about Transpolitica.
Smartphones for futurists: What Smartphones Teach Us About the Radical Future of Technology,Business, & Society. Presentation by David Wood at the World Future 2014 event, Orlando Florida, 12th July 2014.
Please contact the author to invite him to present animated and/or extended versions of these slides in front of an audience of your choosing. (Commercial rates will apply for commercial settings.)
State of the Future 2015-16: Report from the Millennium ProjectDavid Wood
Slides used by David Wood, Chair of London Futurists, to preview the London Futurists event, http://www.meetup.com/London-Futurists/events/224799635/, held at Bloomberg HQ London on 13th November 2015. These slides are derived from a set created by Jerome C. Glenn, The Millennium Project. Topics include the State of the Future Index 1995-2025, 15 Global Challenges, the inevitability of New Economics, Technological Unemployment, and Basic Income Guarantee.
Slides presented by David Wood, Executive Director of Transpolitica, at the London Futurists event "Anticipating Tomorrow's Politics" on Saturday 21st March 2015. See http://www.meetup.com/London-Futurists/events/220967752/ for more about this meeting, and http://transpolitica.org/ for more about Transpolitica.
9 megatrends that will shape the World in 2030 Ranju Mohan
9 MEGATRENDS THAT WILL SHAPE THE WORLD IN 2030:
1. We all will live longer
2. Two-thirds of us will live in cities.
3. The world will become even more open — and less private.
4. The world will be prone to extreme climate changes
5. The world will be faced with increasing resource constraints.
6. Increase use of Clean Tech
7. Shift in use of Technology
8. The Global Policies and Organizations
9. The rise of nationalism and regionalism
Organisations will need to plan & develop strategies to manage this.
Global socio-economic, demographic and technological forces which HP calls Megatrends will have a sustained and transformative impact on businesses, societies, economies, cultures and our personal lives in unimaginable ways in the years to come.
Interested in learning more about Megatrends? Visit hpmegatrends.com.
Global socio-economic, demographic and technological forces that HP calls Megatrends will have a sustained and transformative impact on businesses, societies, economies, cultures and our personal lives in unimaginable ways in the years to come.
Interested in learning more about Megatrends? Visit hpmegatrends.com.
**Please note this presentation was developed prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, so although we don’t address it directly, we do speak to the innovations and solutions that exist beyond it. We hope this knowledge opens a window of hope and possibility to what awaits us on the road ahead.
A brochure-style presentation to introduce the big picture vision for R7 Partners, a venture capital firm that finds, funds, and builds early-stage startups with ambitious innovation.
What's Next? Megatrends Shaping Tomorrow's Society and Rebooting DemocracyNino Lo Cascio
Megatrends Shaping Tomorrow's Society & Rebooting Democracy;
- IT Industrialisation
- Information Explosion
- "Everyware" - The Mobile Internet
- Natural UI
- Aging Population
- Digital Natives
- New emerging democracy model
- Scenarios 2020
Global socio-economic, demographic and technological forces which HP calls Megatrends will have a sustained and transformative impact on businesses, societies, economies, cultures and our personal lives in unimaginable ways in the years to come.
Interested in learning more about Megatrends? Visit hpmegatrends.com.
Contributors: Andrew Bolwell, Prianka Srinivasan, Luke Thomas, Greg Blythe
Design and Edits by Doubleshot Creative: Patty Tulloch and Meghan Cordella
Contributors: Luke Thomas, Andrew Bolwell, Prianka Srinivasan and Greg Blythe
Interested in learning more about Megatrends? Reach out to me on Twitter: @lukeeboy
Global socio-economic, demographic and technological forces which HP calls Megatrends will have a sustained and transformative impact on businesses, societies, economies, cultures and our personal lives in unimaginable ways in the years to come.
SOAR Connect your Economy Practical Seminar: GallardoKevin Loux
Dr. Roberto Gallardo's presentation regarding the digital age and broadband as means of economic development at the SOAR Connect your Economy Practical Seminar in Pikeville on December 15th 2016
Three keys to a radically better society?David Wood
David Wood, chair of London Futurists, reviews the most important actions needed to build a society of abundance, freedom, and collaboration. The presentation assesses the roles of technology, transhumanism, and TZM (The Zeitgeist Movement). The presentation is from a joint meetup of London Futurists and the London Chapter of TZM, held on 17th June 2014
9 megatrends that will shape the World in 2030 Ranju Mohan
9 MEGATRENDS THAT WILL SHAPE THE WORLD IN 2030:
1. We all will live longer
2. Two-thirds of us will live in cities.
3. The world will become even more open — and less private.
4. The world will be prone to extreme climate changes
5. The world will be faced with increasing resource constraints.
6. Increase use of Clean Tech
7. Shift in use of Technology
8. The Global Policies and Organizations
9. The rise of nationalism and regionalism
Organisations will need to plan & develop strategies to manage this.
Global socio-economic, demographic and technological forces which HP calls Megatrends will have a sustained and transformative impact on businesses, societies, economies, cultures and our personal lives in unimaginable ways in the years to come.
Interested in learning more about Megatrends? Visit hpmegatrends.com.
Global socio-economic, demographic and technological forces that HP calls Megatrends will have a sustained and transformative impact on businesses, societies, economies, cultures and our personal lives in unimaginable ways in the years to come.
Interested in learning more about Megatrends? Visit hpmegatrends.com.
**Please note this presentation was developed prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, so although we don’t address it directly, we do speak to the innovations and solutions that exist beyond it. We hope this knowledge opens a window of hope and possibility to what awaits us on the road ahead.
A brochure-style presentation to introduce the big picture vision for R7 Partners, a venture capital firm that finds, funds, and builds early-stage startups with ambitious innovation.
What's Next? Megatrends Shaping Tomorrow's Society and Rebooting DemocracyNino Lo Cascio
Megatrends Shaping Tomorrow's Society & Rebooting Democracy;
- IT Industrialisation
- Information Explosion
- "Everyware" - The Mobile Internet
- Natural UI
- Aging Population
- Digital Natives
- New emerging democracy model
- Scenarios 2020
Global socio-economic, demographic and technological forces which HP calls Megatrends will have a sustained and transformative impact on businesses, societies, economies, cultures and our personal lives in unimaginable ways in the years to come.
Interested in learning more about Megatrends? Visit hpmegatrends.com.
Contributors: Andrew Bolwell, Prianka Srinivasan, Luke Thomas, Greg Blythe
Design and Edits by Doubleshot Creative: Patty Tulloch and Meghan Cordella
Contributors: Luke Thomas, Andrew Bolwell, Prianka Srinivasan and Greg Blythe
Interested in learning more about Megatrends? Reach out to me on Twitter: @lukeeboy
Global socio-economic, demographic and technological forces which HP calls Megatrends will have a sustained and transformative impact on businesses, societies, economies, cultures and our personal lives in unimaginable ways in the years to come.
SOAR Connect your Economy Practical Seminar: GallardoKevin Loux
Dr. Roberto Gallardo's presentation regarding the digital age and broadband as means of economic development at the SOAR Connect your Economy Practical Seminar in Pikeville on December 15th 2016
Three keys to a radically better society?David Wood
David Wood, chair of London Futurists, reviews the most important actions needed to build a society of abundance, freedom, and collaboration. The presentation assesses the roles of technology, transhumanism, and TZM (The Zeitgeist Movement). The presentation is from a joint meetup of London Futurists and the London Chapter of TZM, held on 17th June 2014
A presentation on Government 2.0, President Obama's Open Government Initiative, Open Data and key examples of social media. As presented by Walter Schwabe, Chief Evolution Officer of fusedlogic inc at the ALI Social Media for Government Conference in Edmonton, Alberta
Evolution of Social Media and its effects on Knowledge OrganisationCollabor8now Ltd
There has been a lot of hype around social media, social networks and social business, much of it unhelpful in understanding what this is all about. For some people, “social” will always mean frivolity and time wasting. For others, social media just means marketing and communications.
The evolution of social media over the past several years has made it easier than ever before to find, connect and engage with “experts” and people with similar interests. Enlightened organisations have recognised that investment in social technologies and (most importantly) the organisational change required in order to nurture and embed a collaborative culture, can overcome the limitations of silo’d structures that have traditionally inhibited information flows and opportunities for innovation.
In a broader context, the pervasive and ubiquitous availability of social media in almost all aspects of daily life, from the way we communicate, get information, buy and sell, travel, live and learn is adding to the pressure on organisations to provide a more porous interface between internal (behind the firewall) and external services. Knowledge workers are increasingly making their own decisions on what tools, products and services that they need to work more effectively and will become increasingly disaffected if these are not available within the work environment.
This presentation looks at industry trends on how social media and social technologies are changing the way that we generate, organise and consume knowledge, and how this is driving emergent digital literacies for knowledge workers.
The world economy is change. The model of the 20th century corporation need to be adapted toward a 21st century model: flat, connected, focused on innovation, collaborative, global.
Global Risk 2018-Your Guide To The Year AheadMiguel Miranda
Excellent recap on important geopolitical events in 2017. Anyone working in education, finance, government, and technology should read this to get the right frame of mind for the year ahead.
Three challenges faced by ethical systems in the modern world, and four possible responses to these challenges. Presentation used by David Wood at an event at Newspeak House on 11th January 2017, advocating a technoprogessive approach. For more details of the event, see https://www.meetup.com/London-Futurists/events/235828492/. For a recording of a live video stream of the event, see https://www.youtube.com/edit?video_id=TThdPAkB68M.
A comprehensive, clickable tour on Equity Market Wisdom is available at http://www.wisdomnetworks.im/networks/equity-market .
A 3 minute video titled "How to achieve Global Wisdom and prosperity in 3 steps in 3 years" ( http://is.gd/wisdomin15 ) provides a quick introduction to wisdom. This is the first video of three in a 15 minute crash course of Global Wisdom available at www.wisdomnetworks.im .
Future-oriented schools: Preparing students for the new millenium rather than the industrial age. A presentation given to the Minneapolis Public Schools. January 19, 2006. Dr. Scott McLeod, CASTLE, www.schooltechleadership.org & www.dangerouslyirrelevant.org.
Fort d’une expérience de 30 ans dans l’environnement des systèmes d’information, Bart Schutte, directeur Web et Architecture à la DSI de Saint Gobain, ne cache pas son enthousiasme pour le logiciel social. Il estime que les entreprises, toujours soucieuses de mieux communiquer et collaborer, ont désormais des possibilités que ne leur permettait pas le simple usage de l’e-mail; plus particulièrement entrer en contact et partager de l’infor- mation entre équipes distribuées pour être plus innovant, rapide et davantage orienté service.
With 30 years experience in information systems environnement, Bart Schutte, Director of Web Architecture of Saint Gobain, does not hide his enthusiasm for social software. He considers that companies, always eager to improve communication and collaboration, have now opportunities that the simple use of e-mail did not allow namely get in touch and share information with team members in order to be more innovative, reactive as well as service oriented.
“The prosperity the United States enjoys today is due in no small part to investments the nation has made in research and development at universities, corporations, and national laboratories over the last 50 years.”
Assessing the risks of AI catastrophe - presentation given by David Wood on 1...David Wood
How should we respond to claims that forthcoming new versions of AI pose unacceptable risks of human catastrophe?
These slides were presented at a London Futurists webinar on 16th March 2024, by David Wood, chair of the organisation. They are an updated version of a presentation he originally shared at the recent BGI unconference in Panama City, https://bgi24.ai/. That talk was described by a number of participants as "the best of the entire event", but others said that it was "a mistake that so much time was given to this subject".
Ahead of this webinar, the talk given in Panama was significantly revised in light of feedback received at the BGI unconference.
The talk aims to improve understanding of which risks are the most credible and serious (as opposed to fanciful or unfounded). It also reviews a variety of options for how to respond to these risks. This includes varieties of so-called "accelerationism" and "singularity activism".
For more about the event, see https://www.meetup.com/london-futurists/events/299727151/.
For a recording of the event, see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYK4eYTZmXU
A summary of discussions of five different groups on the subject of AI in the closing session (on 21st January 2024) of TransVision Utrecht. David Wood facilitated these discussions and compiled these notes.
From the Eclipse Foundation to the Symbian FoundationDavid Wood
A talk given by David Wood (at that time, EVP of Research of Symbian) at the OSS Watch Business and Sustainability Models workshop at the University of Oxford, 12 January 2009.
The subtitle of the presentation is "Running a Foundation to Contain your Code"
For general background to the ideas covered in this talk, see chapters 21 to 24 of the 2014 book "Smartphones and beyond: Lessons from the remarkable rise and fall of Symbian" https://smartphonesandbeyond.com/
(This talk has tangential notability as being the prompt for David Wood to join Twitter, since various people in the audience were using Twitter to share real-time comments on what the speakers were saying: https://twitter.com/dw2/status/1746898120674246873)
Anticipating and managing the future of AIDavid Wood
Slides presented by David Wood in "Module 4: Looking to the Future" of the event "AI and ESG for Corporates 2022" hosted by the Centre for AI and Prosperity (CAP).
See https://www.meetup.com/london-futurists/events/289128254/
Copy of the slides "The Singularity Principles: Anticipating and Managing Cataclysmically Disruptive Technologies" presented by David Wood at the World Talent Economy Forum on 20th June 2022
A recording of the event is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-X5Fxx-By8
A short update (three slides) on progress and opportunities with the Vital Syllabus project.
For more details, see https://londonfuturists.com/education/ and the pages linked from there
The Abolition of Aging - An update for 2022.pdfDavid Wood
Slides used by David Wood, Chair of London Futurists, in his presentation on 24th March 2022 for the Church of Perpetual Life. The presentation weighed up arguments for and against the possibility of widespread low-cost access, by 2040, of treatments providing comprehensive rejuvenation (reversal of aging) in both body and mind. In particular, the presentation looks at how that balance of probabilities has shifted in the six years since these arguments were first aired in the 2016 book "The Abolition of Aging".
A recording of this presentation can be viewed at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSETLmTKzqg
These slides were presented at the start of a London Futurists open discussion event on Tuesday 15th March 2022. In these slides, David Wood, Chair of London Futurists, provides answers to five questions about the "Vital Syllabus" project: Why?, Who?, What?, How?, and What's next?
He also issued a call for collaboration and support of the project.
For a recording of this presentation, see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mea38ims1OQ
Slides to be presented from the UK node at the Millennium Project Planning Committee on 15 Dec 2021. Subject to change.
The page containing all the videos listed on the fifth slide: https://londonfuturists.com/education/singularity/
The videos themselves:
"The Singularitarian Stance": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieCFn0JzC3E
"The Singularity Shadow": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DgeP27zJeg
"The Denial of the Singularity": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMHDkllMiKs
"Introduction to the Singularity Principles": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RY6uu4mfUAM
"The Singularity Principles": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_N0ptuB1sfo
Transhumanism 2024: A new future for politics?David Wood
Presentation made by David Wood on 2nd October 2021 to the London Futurists event "A new future for politics?" This includes 15 possible policies for mayoral campaigns in major cities in the UK in 2024.
A video recording of this presentation, along with subsequent discussion, can be viewed at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJLHx5T8BFI
DW Augmented Humanity - Opportunity or ThreatDavid Wood
Slides used by David Wood in his keynote in the #StreamAroundTheClock #WeNeedAChange session "Augmented Humanity - Opportunity or Threat" on 5th September 2020 https://leanbase.de/streamaroundtheclock/we-need-a-change
Copy of the slides shared by David Wood in the first session "Accelerating a new Kind of Thinking & Science for a Sustainable Future" in the #WeNeedAChange of the #StreamAroundTheClock Formwelten conference on 4th Sept 2020, https://leanbase.de/streamaroundtheclock/we-need-a-change
AI in 5-10 years time: 12 ways it could be very different from todayDavid Wood
Slides used by David Wood, Chair of London Futurists, in a Fast Future webinar on "The Future of AI". For a recording of the entire webinar, see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcKtuXIRPTk. This particular presentation starts 1 hour and 6 minutes into the recording
Roadmapping the UK's future, 2019-2025-2035David Wood
Thanks to breakthroughs in science and technology, the future could be profoundly better than the present – provided we recognise this opportunity, and take appropriate actions.
In this vision, there will be an abundance of all-round human flourishing. Everyone will have the means to live better than well - healthier and fitter than ever before; nourished emotionally and spiritually as well as physically; and living at peace with ourselves, the environment, and our neighbours both near and far.
That's the vision of the Transhumanist Party UK. The Party is developing a set of bold top level targets for the UK to seek to achieve by 2035. These goals are intended to be memorable, clear, and inspiring.
This set of slides was presented by David Wood, Co-leader of the Transhumanist Party UK, at an event at London's Newspeak House on 1st July 2019.
This meeting was a chance for members, supporters, friends, and critics of the Transhumanist Party UK to take this discussion further forward:
*) What are the strengths and weaknesses of the Party's current set of goals for 2035?
*) What are the most important steps to take to significantly enhance all-round human flourishing by 2035?
*) And bearing in mind both the potential and constraints of both technology and politics, what transformations would need to be well advanced by 2025?
For more information about the event, see https://www.meetup.com/London-Futurists/events/262210389/.
For more information about the Transhumanist Party UK, see http://transhumanistparty.org.uk/.
For a Discourse thread discussing the ideas in this presentation, see https://discourse.transhumanistparty.org.uk/t/goals-for-2035-update-3rd-july/95/1
Slides presented by David Wood, chair of London Futurists and Principal of Delta Wisdom, at the Funzing event at Café 1001, Brick Lane, on 26th June 2017: http://uk.funzing.com/funz/ldn-talks-night-is-tech-the-end-of-getting-old-9331
Lessons from 10 years of public meetups addressing existential riskDavid Wood
Slides used by David Wood in his presentation on 13 Dec 2016 to the Cambridge Conference of Catastrophic Risks, http://cser.org/cccr2016/: "Lessons from 10 years of public meetups addressing existential risk - 8 recommendations to improve the public conversation"
Presentation by David Wood at Terasem Island, Second Life, in the Terasem 10th annual colloquium on the law of futuristic persons, 10th Dec 2015. The presentation seeks to draw lessons from the current example of regulations governing genome editing, with particular mention of arguments raised at http://progress.org.uk/conference2015 in London on 9th Dec 2015.
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
See how to accelerate model training and optimize model performance with active learning
Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
👩🏫 Lenka Dulovicova, Product Program Manager, UiPath
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
91mobiles recently conducted a Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey in which we asked over 3,000 respondents about the TV they own, aspects they look at on a new TV, and their TV buying preferences.
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
Elevating Tactical DDD Patterns Through Object CalisthenicsDorra BARTAGUIZ
After immersing yourself in the blue book and its red counterpart, attending DDD-focused conferences, and applying tactical patterns, you're left with a crucial question: How do I ensure my design is effective? Tactical patterns within Domain-Driven Design (DDD) serve as guiding principles for creating clear and manageable domain models. However, achieving success with these patterns requires additional guidance. Interestingly, we've observed that a set of constraints initially designed for training purposes remarkably aligns with effective pattern implementation, offering a more ‘mechanical’ approach. Let's explore together how Object Calisthenics can elevate the design of your tactical DDD patterns, offering concrete help for those venturing into DDD for the first time!
De-mystifying Zero to One: Design Informed Techniques for Greenfield Innovati...
Technology and inequality
1. Technology and inequality
Principal, Delta Wisdom
Chair, London Futurists
londonfuturists.com
deltawisdom.com
Recent history & future scenarios
Radical opportunity & radical risk
David Wood
@dw2
2. @dw2
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Extra longevity
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Worse climate
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humans
Extra intelligence
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Extra longevity
Extra experience
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humanity
Worse terrorism
Worse surveillance
Worse climate
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individuals
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Alongside smart R&D and the power
of free enterprise, we also need
wise regulation and smart governance
1
2
And perhaps new social systems
Governments needn’t be corrupt
4. @dw2
Page 4
http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/360347
The most important problem we are facing now, today… is
Robert Shiller,
Nobel prize winner for Economics,
14 October 2013
rising inequality
5. @dw2
Page 5
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/post/theres-been-class-warfare-for- the-last-20-years-and-my-class-has-won/2011/03/03/gIQApaFbAL_blog.html
There’s been class warfare going on for the last 20 years, and my class has won. We’re the ones that have gotten our tax rates reduced dramatically
Warren Buffett,
Investor, “Sage of Omaha”,
2011
Top 400 taxpayers
Average income
Tax rate
1992
$40M
29%
2010
$227M
21%
8. @dw2
Page 8
http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21631129-it-001-who-are- really-getting-ahead-america-forget-1
“The really, really rich get much, much richer”
“The 16,000 families making up the richest 0.01%, with an average net worth of $371M, now control 11.2% of total wealth—back to the 1916 share, which is the highest on record”
11. @dw2
Page 11
Positive
feedback
cycle
The three inequality questions
1.Is inequality really a problem?
–Or is it just a perceived problem?
2.Is powerful new technology likely to make the problem worse?
–For example, via adverse positive feedback cycles?
–What kind of scenarios are credible for the future?
3.What can be done to avoid escalating inequality?
–Roles of politics, philosophy, and (yes) technology?
12. @dw2
Page 12
The problems with inequality
1.Is inequality really a problem?
–Or is it just a perceived problem?
A.A more unequal society is worse for everyone
B.Equality of opportunity is declining too
–“The disappearing middle class”
C.A more unequal society is more explosive
–And technology risks making it even more explosive
Positive
feedback
cycle
21. @dw2
Page 21
http://www.thersa.org/events/video/archive/rsa-debates-the-spirit-level
“Kate Pickett,
Richard Wilkinson, Peter Saunders, and Chrisopher Snowdon debate the influential book The Spirit Level and ask whether the benefits of egalitarianism can be statistically proven”
22. @dw2
Page 22
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/12/04/the-best-speech- obama-has-given-on-the-economy/
…I believe this is the defining challenge of our time
4 December 2013
A dangerous and growing inequality… has jeopardized middle-class America’s basic bargain:
– that if you work hard,
you have a chance to get ahead
While we don’t promise equal outcomes, we have strived to deliver equal opportunity – the idea that success doesn’t depend on being born into wealth or privilege, it depends on effort and merit.
27. @dw2
Page 27
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/12/04/the-best-speech- obama-has-given-on-the-economy/
4 December 2013
The problem is that alongside increased inequality, we’ve seen diminished levels of upward mobility in recent years.
A child born in the top 20% has about a 2-in-3 chance of staying at or near the top.
A child born into the bottom 20% has a less than 1-in- 20 shot at making it to the top.
He’s 10 times likelier to stay where he is.
28. @dw2
Page 28
The problem isn’t that we have inequality.
Some inequality is intrinsic to any high-functioning capitalist economy. The problem is that inequality is at historically high levels and getting worse every day…
Unless our policies change dramatically, the middle class will disappear, and we will be back to late 18th-century France. Before the revolution.
And so I have a message for my fellow filthy rich, for all of us who live in our gated bubble worlds:
Wake up, people. It won’t last.
If we don’t do something to fix the glaring inequities in this economy, the pitchforks are going to come for us.
No society can sustain this kind of rising inequality. In fact, there is no example in human history where wealth accumulated like this and the pitchforks didn’t eventually come out. You show me a highly unequal society, and I will show you a police state. Or an uprising.
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/06/the-pitchforks-are-coming-for-us-plutocrats-108014.html
Nick Hanauer
30. @dw2
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Locking in advantage: 5 factors
1.Capital growth exceeds economic growth (r > g: Piketty)
–More money -> investment -> even more money
2.Education
–More money -> better education -> better career -> more money
3.“Winner takes all”
–Better skills -> disproportionately higher reward
31. @dw2
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Purchased by Facebook in April 2012
With 13 employees
And 100 million registered users
For approx $1 billion in cash and stock
Launched in October 2010
Sociable
Usable
Winner takes a larger reward
Compare Kodak
1997 valuation $30B
86,000 employees
2,000x productivity?!
32. @dw2
Page 32
Purchased by Facebook in April 2012
With 13 employees
And 100 million registered users
For approx $1 billion in cash and stock
Launched in October 2010
Winner takes a larger reward
Compare Kodak
1997 valuation $30B
86,000 employees
2,000x productivity?!
Created seven billionaires!
Each with a net worth ten times greater than George Eastman!
33. @dw2
Page 33
Purchased by Facebook in Feb 2014
With 55 employees
And 420 million active users
For approx $19 billion in cash & stock
Launched in March 2009
Sociable
Usable
Winner takes a larger reward
34. @dw2
Page 34
“Winner takes all”: The Second Machine Age
Gold medal >> Silver medal
1.The digitization of more and more information, goods, and services
2.The vast improvements in telecommunications and transport
–The best products can be used in every market
3.The increased importance of networks and standards
–New capabilities and new ideas can be combined and recombined more quickly
http://www.secondmachineage.com/
Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee, MIT
35. @dw2
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http://www.technologyreview.com/featuredstory/531726/technology-and-inequality/
Steve Jurvetson
Managing Director, Draper Fisher Jurvetson Venture Capitalist investor in Hotmail
“It just seems so obvious to me [that] technology is accelerating the rich-poor gap…”
“The elephant in the room, stomping around, banging off the walls”
36. @dw2
Page 36
Locking in advantage: 5 factors
1.Capital growth exceeds economic growth (r > g: Piketty)
–More money -> investment -> even more money
2.Education
–More money -> better education -> better career -> more money
3.“Winner takes all”
–Better skills -> disproportionately higher reward
4.Technology to enhance your health (body power)
–Fitter -> work more effectively -> better rewards
5.Technology to enhance your intelligence (brain power)
–Smarter -> work more effectively -> better rewards
47. @dw2
Page 47
Examples of rate of change
Source: “Exponential Organizations”
Technology
Average cost for equivalent functionality
Scale
3D printing
$40,000 (2007) to $100 (2014)
400x in 7 years
Industrial robots
$500,000 (2008) to $22,000 (2013)
23x in 5 years
Drones
$100,000 (2007) to $700 (2013)
142x in 6 years
Solar energy
$30 per kWh (1984) to $0.16 per kWh (2014)
200x in 20 years
3D LIDAR Sensors
$20,000 (2009) to $79 (2014)
250x in 5 years
DNA genome seq
$10,000,000 (2007) to $1,000 (2014)
10,000x in 7 years
BCI neuro devices
$4,000 (2006) to $90 (2011)
44x in 5 years
Full body med scan
$10,000 (2000) to $500 (2014)
20x in 14 years
http://www.slideshare.net/vangeest/exponential-organizations-h
49. @dw2
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Four future scenarios
1.Inequality accepted – through “practical abundance” despite inequality
–Majority of people will become comparatively poorer, but goods will reduce in expense
–People remain relatively happy and acquiescent
–Even though the 1% have more abundance than everyone else
–People may spend lots of time in virtual worlds and soap operas
2.Inequality exploded: Pitchforks, revolution, and worse
–Some important goods will only be affordable by the super-rich
–Specialised healthcare? Rejuvenation technology?
–“Practical abundance” is not enough
–Growing societal tensions -> risk of explosions, pitchforks, horrific terrorism, WMD
3.Inequality controlled: Transhumanism for the 1%
–New tech will make some humans super-intelligent (brain-enhanced) & super-powerful
–Much bigger & faster differentiation than existing educational benefits
–That new ruling class will be able to suppress all dissent: super-effective police state
4.Inequality vanquished: Transhumanism for all
–Determined social pressure to ensure access to new technologies by everyone
–Don’t leave social evolution up to the forces of “free market liberalism”
–Improve on social organisation, just like we believe we can improve on bio-evolution
50. @dw2
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Enhancing
humans
Extra intelligence
Extra health
Extra longevity
Extra experience
Disturbing
humanity
Worse terrorism
Worse surveillance
Worse climate
Robot employment
Extra opportunities Existential risks
Benefits
individuals
Threatens
society
If we allow individuals to enhance
themselves
through smart R&D and free enterprise
– without government interference –
the world’s social problems will be
solved as a by-product
Alongside smart R&D and the power
of free enterprise, we also need
wise regulation and smart governance
1
2
And perhaps new social systems
Governments needn’t be corrupt
51. @dw2
Page 51
Appendix: What can be done to avoid escalating inequality?
•Deepen our awareness of impacts of social factors on alienation and initiative
–Sharpen our understanding of which kinds of inequality matter the most (and most need fixing)
–Local experimentation (at city, region, or country levels) will make us collectively wiser
–Expect a big role for a Basic Income Guarantee, especially as Technological Unemployment grows
•Encourage growth, where appropriate, of “collaborative commons” voluntary sector
•Elevate the power of “conscious capitalism” over “crony capitalism” & “vested interests”
–Encourage visions other than just pursuit of greater profit (“man cannot live by bread alone”)
–Enable societies to adopt “massive transformational purpose” (MTP – term used by Singularity Univ)
–A good MTP could be something like “transhumanism for all”
•Re-invigorate democratic systems – Democracy 2.0 – building on success of e.g. MOOCs
–Better use of technology to involve more people at right times in relevant decision-making processes
–The blockchain tech (which underlies Bitcoin) can enable DAOs (Distributed Autonomous Orgs)
•Develop smart drugs and other systems that make us all (with our permission) not just smarter and stronger but also kinder and more empathetic
–With that new spirit, more people in the “1%” will be moved to champion inclusivity
–This is “inner transhumanism” as opposed to just “outer transhumanism”
http://dw2blog.com/2011/04/17/towards-inner-humanity/
52. Principal, Delta Wisdom
Chair, London Futurists
David Wood
@dw2
londonfuturists.com
deltawisdom.com
Technology and inequality
Recent history & future scenarios
Radical opportunity & radical risk