The document discusses emerging trends in technology and innovation, including: - Advancing computing power and digital storage capacity according to Moore's Law, Kryder's Law, and other technology laws. - The rise of wireless, smaller, more powerful and cheaper devices in the post-PC era. - How human communications and globalization will be enriched and accelerated by wireless technology, mobile internet services, and global/hyperlocal communities. - The opportunity we now have to use technology to drive positive social, political, and economic transformations.

1. On Technology & Innovation
Ed Fernandez @efernandez

2. 2540
A New world order
Advanced Technology
Individualistic beliefs
Happiness & Hedonism
#TEDxRaval @efernandez

3. The journey to singularity

4. Singularity
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5. Ray Kurzweil’s singularity
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6. Technology Trends

7. Technology evolution Laws
Computing capacity Moore’s Law
Computing power doubles every 18-24 months
Price cuts in half
Bandwidth capacity Gilder’s & Nielsen’s Law
Doubles every 2 years - wired
Doubles every 2.5 years - wireless (Cooper’s Law)
Digital storage capacity Kryder’s Law
Doubles every 2 years.

8. Wireless
Smaller
Powerful
Cheaper

10. Matt Murphy + Mary Meeker
http://kpcb.com/insights/top-10-mobile-internet-trends
[ Post PC era ]
Post

11. People
motivations are changing
1943 - Maslow 2011 - ?!?

15. RIM acquisitions

16. Facebook break-up seasonality

17. Matt Murphy + Mary Meeker
http://kpcb.com/insights/top-10-mobile-internet-trends

18. Matt Murphy + Mary Meeker
http://kpcb.com/insights/top-10-mobile-internet-trends

19. Anthony Guiddens & globalization
Sociologist, former Director of the
London School of Economics.
Writer of 34 books about globalization
Anthony Giddens is the most widely-
read and cited social theorist of his
generation.

20. Anthony Guiddens & globalization
Same patterns we have seen after one century of globalization
will apply for the second stage.
Human communications, driven & enriched by....
1. Wireless Technology
2. Mobile Internet services &
3. Global & Hyperlocal communities
...will accelerate exponentially social, political & economic
transformations.
(@efernandez #visiones21 #UIMP – August 2011).

21. "we have the chance to take over
where the 20th century failed,
technology has put every single one
of us in the front seat,
we are in control and we need to act
now“