The document discusses the future of technology, emphasizing the importance of connected devices and real-time data services, illustrated by examples like the DARPA Grand Challenge and comments from industry leaders. It highlights the evolution of devices integrating sensory abilities, memory, and social connectivity. Additionally, it notes the shift from wireline to wireless, entrepreneurial efforts in tech sharing, and historical references to concepts like Vannevar Bush's memex.

2. The Future In One Picture
Tim O’Reilly
O’Reilly Media
Maker Faire Kansas City
June 24, 2011

4. 2005: Stanley Wins the DARPA Grand Challenge

5. DIY Meets the Global Brain
The “intelligent” devices of the future are connected to
real-time data services in the cloud

6. “We don’t have better algorithms. We just
have more data.”
- Peter Norvig, Chief Scientist, Google

7. “The future is here. It’s
just not evenly
distributed yet.”
- William Gibson

8. A device with eyes and
ears, with a sense of
place, and motion, and
proximity, with memory
of what it’s seen and
where it’s been, a
connection to the people
we know and love.

9. Beyond information
retrieval: real time
connection with other
people and what they
know.

10. Android + Arduino

11.  Ford and Google prediction API

13. Google KC Fiber deployment
 wireline to wireless transition - free up spectrum -
Negroponte comment - FCC initiative

17.  Entrepreneurship

20.  Online sharing of designs - thingaverse, ifixit,
instructables
 Saul’s stuff


21. Vannevar Bush’s Memex - 1945