Architecting Smart City Solutions: Analytics-based Financial EngineeringScott Mongeau
An integrated approach to designing Smart City solutions via analytics-driven financial engineering. Whereas emerging technologies are opening new vistas, the success of Smart City initiatives depend upon socio-organizational coordination. This presentation proposes structured financial engineering and business analytics as a strategic implementation guide.
Architecting Smart City Solutions: Analytics-based Financial EngineeringScott Mongeau
An integrated approach to designing Smart City solutions via analytics-driven financial engineering. Whereas emerging technologies are opening new vistas, the success of Smart City initiatives depend upon socio-organizational coordination. This presentation proposes structured financial engineering and business analytics as a strategic implementation guide.
Branded Content (in Mobile) by Chris SchaumannChris Schaumann
Content is what we really want - Entertainment, Excitement and Education. On any screen, anytime.
The pace of change in the Advertising & Technology landscape is accelerating and new engagement techniques and formats evolve rapidly. Content and it's fluidity should be curated to ensure it's most wanted.
This presentation outlines my view on the latest technology trends and examples for a more digital content powered marketing paradigm.
Fight for Yourself: How to Sell Your Ideas and Crush PresentationsDigital Surgeons
Don't let your blood, sweat, and pixels be overlooked, great creative doesn't sell itself.
Every presentation is a story, an opportunity to sell not just your work, but what people actually buy — YOU.
This presentation will walk viewers through three core aspects of winning at any presentation, Confidence, Comprehension, and Conviction.
These concepts, central to your work as a creative professional, are backed by science and bolstered by thoughts from some of the world’s leading creative professionals.
17 Ways to Design a Presentation People Want to ViewJim MacLeod
Tired of boring PowerPoint presentations? Me too. Here are 17 tips to help you create a presentation that not only engages the audience, but forces them to remember what you want them to remember.
Study: The Future of VR, AR and Self-Driving CarsLinkedIn
We asked LinkedIn members worldwide about their levels of interest in the latest wave of technology: whether they’re using wearables, and whether they intend to buy self-driving cars and VR headsets as they become available. We asked them too about their attitudes to technology and to the growing role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the devices that they use. The answers were fascinating – and in many cases, surprising.
This SlideShare explores the full results of this study, including detailed market-by-market breakdowns of intention levels for each technology – and how attitudes change with age, location and seniority level. If you’re marketing a tech brand – or planning to use VR and wearables to reach a professional audience – then these are insights you won’t want to miss.
The technologies and people we are designing experiences for are constantly changing, in most cases they are changing at a rate that is difficult keep up with. When we think about how our teams are structured and the design processes we use in light of this challenge, a new design problem (or problem space) emerges, one that requires us to focus inward. How do we structure our teams and processes to be resilient? What would happen if we looked at our teams and design process as IA’s, Designers, Researchers? What strategies would we put in place to help them be successful? This talk will look at challenges we face leading, supporting, or simply being a part of design teams creating experiences for user groups with changing technological needs.
How to Become a Thought Leader in Your NicheLeslie Samuel
Are bloggers thought leaders? Here are some tips on how you can become one. Provide great value, put awesome content out there on a regular basis, and help others.
Technology as a Cultural Practice - UX AustraliaRachel Hinman
How do you design a mobile money service for people in rural Uganda who’ve never had a bank account? How do you test the usability of a mobile phone’s address book for users in rural India who’ve never had an address… yet alone an analog address book?
As cheap PCs and inexpensive mobile phones flood the global market, usability and user experience professionals will encounter more and more questions like these – questions that challenge not only our research tools and methodologies, but our fundamental assumptions about how people engage with technology. In this talk, Rachel will share insights she’s gained through creating experiences that must scale across vastly different cultures. She’ll share her thoughts on the challenges and opportunities designing for global markets will present to the user experience industry 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
Branded Content (in Mobile) by Chris SchaumannChris Schaumann
Content is what we really want - Entertainment, Excitement and Education. On any screen, anytime.
The pace of change in the Advertising & Technology landscape is accelerating and new engagement techniques and formats evolve rapidly. Content and it's fluidity should be curated to ensure it's most wanted.
This presentation outlines my view on the latest technology trends and examples for a more digital content powered marketing paradigm.
Fight for Yourself: How to Sell Your Ideas and Crush PresentationsDigital Surgeons
Don't let your blood, sweat, and pixels be overlooked, great creative doesn't sell itself.
Every presentation is a story, an opportunity to sell not just your work, but what people actually buy — YOU.
This presentation will walk viewers through three core aspects of winning at any presentation, Confidence, Comprehension, and Conviction.
These concepts, central to your work as a creative professional, are backed by science and bolstered by thoughts from some of the world’s leading creative professionals.
17 Ways to Design a Presentation People Want to ViewJim MacLeod
Tired of boring PowerPoint presentations? Me too. Here are 17 tips to help you create a presentation that not only engages the audience, but forces them to remember what you want them to remember.
Study: The Future of VR, AR and Self-Driving CarsLinkedIn
We asked LinkedIn members worldwide about their levels of interest in the latest wave of technology: whether they’re using wearables, and whether they intend to buy self-driving cars and VR headsets as they become available. We asked them too about their attitudes to technology and to the growing role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the devices that they use. The answers were fascinating – and in many cases, surprising.
This SlideShare explores the full results of this study, including detailed market-by-market breakdowns of intention levels for each technology – and how attitudes change with age, location and seniority level. If you’re marketing a tech brand – or planning to use VR and wearables to reach a professional audience – then these are insights you won’t want to miss.
The technologies and people we are designing experiences for are constantly changing, in most cases they are changing at a rate that is difficult keep up with. When we think about how our teams are structured and the design processes we use in light of this challenge, a new design problem (or problem space) emerges, one that requires us to focus inward. How do we structure our teams and processes to be resilient? What would happen if we looked at our teams and design process as IA’s, Designers, Researchers? What strategies would we put in place to help them be successful? This talk will look at challenges we face leading, supporting, or simply being a part of design teams creating experiences for user groups with changing technological needs.
How to Become a Thought Leader in Your NicheLeslie Samuel
Are bloggers thought leaders? Here are some tips on how you can become one. Provide great value, put awesome content out there on a regular basis, and help others.
Technology as a Cultural Practice - UX AustraliaRachel Hinman
How do you design a mobile money service for people in rural Uganda who’ve never had a bank account? How do you test the usability of a mobile phone’s address book for users in rural India who’ve never had an address… yet alone an analog address book?
As cheap PCs and inexpensive mobile phones flood the global market, usability and user experience professionals will encounter more and more questions like these – questions that challenge not only our research tools and methodologies, but our fundamental assumptions about how people engage with technology. In this talk, Rachel will share insights she’s gained through creating experiences that must scale across vastly different cultures. She’ll share her thoughts on the challenges and opportunities designing for global markets will present to the user experience industry 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
A research in progress on smart cities globally. We look at cases in China, Japan, Malaysia, United States and Spain within Europe. We are also working on an ecosystem of people interested in smart city development and policies we invite you to join at https://plus.google.com/communities/108050236028662715756?partnerid=ogpy0
Slides from my lecture at KTH - Royal Institute of Technology in October 2014, http://dm2571-2014.blogspot.se/2014/09/lecture-12-wed-oct-1-10-12-teigland.html
I grandi cambiamenti avvenuti negli ultimi decenni hanno modificato i sistemi di riferimento e di interpretazione del mondo contemporaneo. Allo stesso tempo, la riflessione sul futuro delle nostre società e civiltà diventa sempre più urgente, perché un mondo globalizzato come il nostro ha bisogno non solo di identificare le tendenze che guidano i suoi cambiamenti, ma anche di intervenire attraverso processi di innovazione avanzati nella configurazione di quell'orizzonte.
Questa lezione è pertanto orientata a offrire una riflessione su cosa significa lavorare all'interno di una logica di sistema e a istituire approcci transdisciplinari alla comprensione delle tendenze per sviluppare capacità di soluzioni alternative.
Inspiration Tours and Factfinding Missions 2023.pdfNiki Skene
Silicon Valley Inspiration Tours was established in 2012 and has conducted over 160 Inspiration Tours and Factfinding Missions in Silicon Valley, New York, London, Berlin, Vienna, Tel Aviv, Dubai, Mumbai and Hongkong.
The 5* rated program is the best experience, money can buy to inspire future leaders.
8. City Science: Urban Big Data and New Urban SystemsMITEF México
Data-driven analysis of economic
activity, human behavior, mobility
patterns, resource consumption, etc.
in order to inform an evidence-based
process of designing new cities
Orlando Technology Growth Trends And Why Startup Communities MatterSPLYT
Originally presented April 24, 2014 to the Orlando Chamber of Commerce's Business Roundtable attendees by Philip Holt, CEO and co-founder of SPLYT and co-founder of Canvs. Philip gives an overview of tech growth trends around the world and reveals why startup communities are so important to a city's economy.
GraphSummit Singapore | The Art of the Possible with Graph - Q2 2024Neo4j
Neha Bajwa, Vice President of Product Marketing, Neo4j
Join us as we explore breakthrough innovations enabled by interconnected data and AI. Discover firsthand how organizations use relationships in data to uncover contextual insights and solve our most pressing challenges – from optimizing supply chains, detecting fraud, and improving customer experiences to accelerating drug discoveries.
Pushing the limits of ePRTC: 100ns holdover for 100 daysAdtran
At WSTS 2024, Alon Stern explored the topic of parametric holdover and explained how recent research findings can be implemented in real-world PNT networks to achieve 100 nanoseconds of accuracy for up to 100 days.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
Generative AI Deep Dive: Advancing from Proof of Concept to ProductionAggregage
Join Maher Hanafi, VP of Engineering at Betterworks, in this new session where he'll share a practical framework to transform Gen AI prototypes into impactful products! He'll delve into the complexities of data collection and management, model selection and optimization, and ensuring security, scalability, and responsible use.
Alt. GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using ...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.
Climate Impact of Software Testing at Nordic Testing DaysKari Kakkonen
My slides at Nordic Testing Days 6.6.2024
Climate impact / sustainability of software testing discussed on the talk. ICT and testing must carry their part of global responsibility to help with the climat warming. We can minimize the carbon footprint but we can also have a carbon handprint, a positive impact on the climate. Quality characteristics can be added with sustainability, and then measured continuously. Test environments can be used less, and in smaller scale and on demand. Test techniques can be used in optimizing or minimizing number of tests. Test automation can be used to speed up testing.
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
Threats to mobile devices are more prevalent and increasing in scope and complexity. Users of mobile devices desire to take full advantage of the features
available on those devices, but many of the features provide convenience and capability but sacrifice security. This best practices guide outlines steps the users can take to better protect personal devices and information.
Why You Should Replace Windows 11 with Nitrux Linux 3.5.0 for enhanced perfor...SOFTTECHHUB
The choice of an operating system plays a pivotal role in shaping our computing experience. For decades, Microsoft's Windows has dominated the market, offering a familiar and widely adopted platform for personal and professional use. However, as technological advancements continue to push the boundaries of innovation, alternative operating systems have emerged, challenging the status quo and offering users a fresh perspective on computing.
One such alternative that has garnered significant attention and acclaim is Nitrux Linux 3.5.0, a sleek, powerful, and user-friendly Linux distribution that promises to redefine the way we interact with our devices. With its focus on performance, security, and customization, Nitrux Linux presents a compelling case for those seeking to break free from the constraints of proprietary software and embrace the freedom and flexibility of open-source computing.
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!
Securing your Kubernetes cluster_ a step-by-step guide to success !KatiaHIMEUR1
Today, after several years of existence, an extremely active community and an ultra-dynamic ecosystem, Kubernetes has established itself as the de facto standard in container orchestration. Thanks to a wide range of managed services, it has never been so easy to set up a ready-to-use Kubernetes cluster.
However, this ease of use means that the subject of security in Kubernetes is often left for later, or even neglected. This exposes companies to significant risks.
In this talk, I'll show you step-by-step how to secure your Kubernetes cluster for greater peace of mind and reliability.
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.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Unlocking Productivity: Leveraging the Potential of Copilot in Microsoft 365, a presentation by Christoforos Vlachos, Senior Solutions Manager – Modern Workplace, Uni Systems
10. The Hybrid Age: A New Socio-Technical
Nexus
• Technologies merging with each other
• Humans merging with technologies
11. 3 Concepts to Understand the Hybrid Age
Human-Technology Co-evolution
• Technology evolution patterns
– Brian Arthur: combinatorial technological evolution
– Kevin Kelly: Technium includes man/nature
• Human evolution patterns
– Charles Darwin: modification by descent
– Robert Fogel: techno-physio evolution
• Hybrid Age: Evolution as Flow
– Adrian Bejan: constructal law
12. 3 Concepts to Understand the Hybrid Age
Technik
• Historical Usage
– Lewis Mumford: culture, technology, people, processes, rules
– Oswald Spengler: economic, political, cultural, educational
systems
• Technik in the Hybrid Age
– Between scientific determinism and social constructivism
– Capacity to harness emerging technologies
13. 3 Concepts to Understand the Hybrid Age
Generativity
• The Structural Property of Capacity for Creation
– Noam Chomsky: grammar from few rules
– Jonathan Zittrain: capacity for unexpected users/products
• Social Systems in Hybrid Age Exhibiting Generativity
– Healthcare, education, economy, governance systems begin to
exhibit expansive capacity to connect users and enable them to
create new values and outputs
• Generativity as Value-Neutral Property
– Open to all. Potential for egalitarianism or monopolism
15. GeoTechnology as a Driver in 21st Century
Major trends have technology at root:
• Shift to multipolarity
• Shrinking of space
• Convergence of economies
• Spread of innovation
• New forms of collaboration
17. BUT Isn’t the Singularity Near…?
Machines connect humans and
Information Age process knowledge and instructions
Machines become integrated,
Hybrid Age ubiquitous, intelligent and social
Machine intelligence becomes
Singularity Age greater than human intelligence
32. Scenario 4: Emergence of the Global Brain
Sebastian Thrun
2007 – Professor at Stanford
University
33. Scenario 4: Emergence of the Global Brain
Sebastian Thrun
2007 – Professor at Stanford
University
2010 – He launched the
Google Driverless car
34. Scenario 4: Emergence of the Global Brain
Sebastian Thrun
2007 – Professor at Stanford
University
2010 – He launched the
Google Driverless car
2011 – He taught a free online
course on artificial intelligence
to 160,000 students
35. Scenario 4: Emergence of the Global Brain
Sebastian Thrun
2007 – Professor at Stanford
University
2010 – He launched the Google
Driverless car
2011 – He taught a free online
course on artificial intelligence to
160,000 students
2012 – Left Stanford and started
Udacity
39. A New Age, A New Scale: The Rise of the City
• Massive urbanization
– 70% world population will live in cities by 2050
• Building of new cities
– UN estimates we need 9000 new cities
• Shift in identity
– Daniel Bell: “city-zen” is the new citizen
40. Networked Infrastructure and Internet of Things:
City as a Platform
Smart Homes
Smart Traffic
Smart Power
Smart Profiles
Smart Trees?
43. Rush to Create New Smart Cities/Districts
and Retrofit Existing Cities
Stockholm★ ★Skolkovo
Toronto ★ Amsterdam ★
New York ★
PlanIT Valley ★
Chongqing ★Songdo
Austin ★ Nano City ★ ★
Masdar ★
King Abdullah ★ ★ Wuxi
Economic City Lavasa ★ Ho Chi Min City
★
Singapore ★
Rio ★
48. The Path to Good Technik
Embedding Values
• Universal Rights: Access, transparency and equity
• Is Internet a Human Right? (UN/Finland/France vs. Cerf)
Techno-Pragmatism
• Building capacity in leading sectors
• Measurement: Income, Human Development, Connectivity
Mindfulness about “Design”
• Resolving the structure/agency tension
• Filter Bubble and “Walled Gardens”
Managing Your Identities
• Personal Identity Ecology: Physical Individual, Virtual Avatar,
Robotic Companion
• Feedback Loops and Sense of Self
49. Good vs. Bad Technik
GOOD
• more economic participants
• growing transparency and self-governance
• lower cost of education
BAD
• Gene co-efficient growing
• Global class struggle
• Collective digital system crash
We define our eras by the pattern of socio-technical relationsBeginning approximately 2 million years ago, we began to use stone tools to dominate other species, as we evolved into Homo Sapiens
The transition from hunting and gathering to settled agriculture involving crop cultivation began with Neolithic revolution around 10,000 BC and brought us into the agrarian age.
The Industrial Revolution began almost 300 years ago as technologies in manufacturing, resource extraction, power generation, and transportation enabled mass industrial society.
The Information Age began with the invention of the personal computer and Internet in 1970s that has given rise to mass communications and the knowledge economy.
We believe we’re entering the frontier of the Information Age which we call the Hybrid Age.
(These eras are additive)Integrated: In the Hybrid Age, information technology is integrating with equally important other fields biology, neuroscience, physics, mathematics which are themselves merging with each other.Ubiquitous: one consequence of this integration of technologies has also been their growing ubiquity. Technologies are now becoming all-pervasive with nanotech, sensors, and the Internet of ThingsIntelligent: it’s no longer a one-way relationship but has a two-way street where analytics enables technologies to give us intelligent feedbackSocial: our interaction with technology is increasingly life-like and we’ll begin to see technologies like robots and avatars as social entities Now we’re not only talking about nano, bio, neuro technologies are coming togetherIt’s not just informationSocio-technical eras are additiveThis makes them small enough
The Hybrid Age is unfolding as technologies merge with each other and humans merge with technology
Complex entanglement; diminishing distinction b/w human domain and tech domain
Complex entanglement; diminishing distinction b/w human domain and tech domainValues + technology design = good technic
Complex entanglement; diminishing distinction b/w human domain and tech domainThe underlying principle that will transform our major social systems in hybrid reality is generativity.Generative systems have a nearly endless capacity to connect users and enable them to create new values and outputs.
Main 21st century trends have tech at root: shrinking of space, convergence of economies, new forms of collaborationHybrid Age occurs against a backdrop of Geotechnology
It’s not a bad thing that more low-cost efficient robots are coming to the market – humans need to work with them by integrating them into ourselves and we need to keep moving up the value chain.KOREAA shortage of English teachers has compelled South Korea to take the next logical step and plan a $45 million rollout of robotic teaching assistants. The robotic teachers would deploy in 500 preschools by 2011, and 8,000 preschools and kindergartens by 2013. In the short run, that could help address the lack of English teachers in rural areas or remote islands. Learning English represents a necessary educational step for competitive South Korean students, and especially those aiming to study abroad at major universities in the U.S.But South Korean robotics experts have already begun predicting that the bots could replace more than 30,000 native English teachers in Korea's language institutes within the not-so distant future, according to the Korea Times. Most of those teachers hail from the U.S., Canada, UK and Australia.FOXCONNA million robots – that’s a LOT of robots. About half the population of Estonia.One million robots doing the labor formerly done by hand would double the company’s current workforce of around 920,000.MILITARY DRONESSource: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=post-911-military-tech-drones6000 in US Army/ 4000 deployed in S AsiaLEGAL ROBOTShttp://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/05/science/05legal.html?pagewanted=allHATSUNE MIKUHatsuneMiku, a Japanese virtual pop idol whose computer-generated singing and holographic performances have sparked a new form of musical entertainment,http://singularityhub.com/2011/04/12/160000-watch-virtual-popstar-hatsune-miku-return-to-the-stage-video-2/
DeVincirobot — $1.39 million for the machine and $140,000 a year for the service contract, according to Intuitive
Blackstone discovery
It’s not a bad thing that more low-cost efficient robots are coming to the market – humans need to work with them by integrating them into ourselves and we need to keep moving up the value chain.KOREAA shortage of English teachers has compelled South Korea to take the next logical step and plan a $45 million rollout of robotic teaching assistants. The robotic teachers would deploy in 500 preschools by 2011, and 8,000 preschools and kindergartens by 2013. In the short run, that could help address the lack of English teachers in rural areas or remote islands. Learning English represents a necessary educational step for competitive South Korean students, and especially those aiming to study abroad at major universities in the U.S.But South Korean robotics experts have already begun predicting that the bots could replace more than 30,000 native English teachers in Korea's language institutes within the not-so distant future, according to the Korea Times. Most of those teachers hail from the U.S., Canada, UK and Australia.FOXCONNA million robots – that’s a LOT of robots. About half the population of Estonia.One million robots doing the labor formerly done by hand would double the company’s current workforce of around 920,000.MILITARY DRONESSource: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=post-911-military-tech-drones6000 in US Army/ 4000 deployed in S AsiaLEGAL ROBOTShttp://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/05/science/05legal.html?pagewanted=allHATSUNE MIKUHatsuneMiku, a Japanese virtual pop idol whose computer-generated singing and holographic performances have sparked a new form of musical entertainment,http://singularityhub.com/2011/04/12/160000-watch-virtual-popstar-hatsune-miku-return-to-the-stage-video-2/
How to you become more than human?For us biotechnology has been linked close to medicine, which means prevent disease and treat diseaseBut we are moving to a point when drugs can make us alert longer, where the brain can directly link with the computer and so process huge amounts of information, where prosthetics can actually make us run faster, hear at different frequencies, and where we can live upto 150 years, and even have children later by restarting the biological clockThis is not therapy. This is enhancement. Becoming more than human. Integrating technology within ourselves and becoming a cyborg
In 2011, Anthony Atala, professor in the United States, used stem cells to print out a human kidney on stage.He has carefully transplanted bladders, trachea, muscle, blood vessels in patients. All off-the-shelf human organs.Today, he can print it out. Tomorrow, you can ELECTIVELY opt for a new one, a stronger heart.This is a new version of health – It includes enhancement!
The case of Beijing Genomics Institute – world’s premier DNA sequencing institute. BGI will receive US$1.5 billion in “collaborative funds” over the next 10 years from the China Development Bank.128 IlluminaHiSeq 2000 SequencersWith better understanding of genetics, they are not only importing knowledge, they are investing in creating and innovating. Let me tell you, you can’t compete with an enhanced human. In the West, you will have to pay for it yourself or your government will give scholarships. I suggest you don’t just save for college education for your kids. You also save for enhancement.Facebook for China with young aggressive engineers/entrepreneurs/biologistsSigned up for every competition in the worldThen they bought the largest order of sequencers in the world from the USThen they got all the techniques – from USThen they quickly scanned the panda, xx,yyAre you seriously convinced yourself that they wont start innovating soon. Remember that no innovation took place in the US – it was in Europe. Now we hardly consider Europe the bastion of innovationSo what would they do with this knowledge?First, they’ll begin to manufacture drugs that they’ll sell to us. It’s a trillions dollar industry. But China will do then become a biotech superpowrMany of these will be cognitive enhancers which we will want to buy but will haggle over insurance.Second, they’ll subsidize their own people having these drugs.Why?
109 countries and of the 290 people who had a perfect score, none of them were Stanford students.Democratization of education, the toughest type of education.
Rise of non-state actors that are doing things that does not fit in with the collective goodDean Kamen came up with a water filteration system that uses nanoparticles to reduce contamination at very low cost.With 3D printers and global knowledge, other people can build it and innovate on it.Global connected brain is also vulnerable. Organized criminals, cyberthiefs, The same person who can build a water filtration system can also print out a gun (which was recently done in the US)
Responsive environmentPersonalized to your needs/ optimized to better service delivery
Geostrategy – who is investing/who can afford itHow are they doing it? Different approaches
- Songdo is held up to be the largest/most ambitious smart city project, but is actually the accidental marriage of a major real estate project led by the Korean government and Posco and an American property developer (Gale Int’l) that only recently began to brand itself as green- Near Incheon; partially reclaimed land; close to airport; alternative to Seoul- Partnership with Cisco as well; nexus of tech provider, local government, property developer- High # of LEED certified building; impeccable urban plan with concert halls, opera house, Chadwick School, Central Park, etc.- Political uncertainties due to Korean government; lottery system for properties; not cosmopolitan enough
Privacy: Privacy will be something that can only be bought because it wont be the default anymore. Louis Brandeis (later a Supreme Court justice) and another young lawyer, Samuel D. Warren, published an article called 'The Right to Privacy' in the Harvard Law Review in 1890 arguing that the constitution and the common law allowed for the deduction of a general "right to privacy".[5]
The problem is that with ubiquitous machines, they are also getting smarterSo they don’t just watch you, they can be used to influence youThere is great research at Jeremy Baileson’s lab and at BJ Fogg’s lab at Stanford University in what is called Persuasive technology, or how technology can be used to change our behavior. At a minimum, we’ve seen this with Facebook which is just one big persuasive technology using experimental psychology to change our behavior.Machines that are intelligent are not cold and evil, they are smart and human-like, we engage with them in a natural way, and in doing so we become susceptible to them. Even vending machines in Japan know your age and gender. Billboards watch how long you are staring at them.Anyone who’s owned a rhumba will admit that they think the poor thing is getting tired … it’s a machine. Sherry Turkle wrote a great book about it too.An avatar that tells us to go the gym is more successful, and that’s a sign of positive behavioral change. That’s great.But these machines also know us. So imagine what Amazon could achieve. Not only does it know us better, but now it has constant access to us. Technolgy is a two-way street.Machine intelligence can also be used to influence Behavioral changeThe Good – healthy/ go on walks/ we are more amenable to avatars telling us to exercise than we are to ourselvesThe Bad – influence you to do all kinds of things/neural marketing/
Values can be codified into ethics, but remember that values change and vary over cultures. Some universal values should be codified however such as equity, transparency, accessOvercoming vast differentials in TechnikImproving income, human development, connectivityValues are dynamic and differ across cultures: eg. Japan - robots as substitutes for humans;