Technology is neither good nor bad nor is it neutral. (It certainly can’t be un-invented.)

1. :
Technology is neither good nor bad
nor is it neutral.
(It certainly can’t be un-invented.)
THE INNOVATION & TECHNOLOGY

2. INNOVATION
“the process whereby new and improved
products, processes, materials, and
services are developed and transferred
to a plant and/or market where they are
appropriate”
Types of Innovation
Product Innovation
Developing a new product
It is concerned with increasing the
revenue.
Process Innovation
Improving the processes employed to
produce or deliver the product, and to
make it more efficient or productive
It is concerned with reducing the costs.

3. TOP
INNOVATIVE COMPANIES

4. HOW TO BE INNOVATIVE
Do what you love.
Put a dent in the universe.
Connect things to spark your
creativity.
Say no to 1,000’s of things.
Create insanely different
experiences.
Master the message.
Sell dreams, not products.

5. 3D PRINTING
Create objects by printing them, just input a
design and raw materials.
Status: typical technological innovation that
will get better, faster, cheaper exponentially.
Common in aerospace, orthopedic and dental
applications. Fast adoption in oil, gas and
military
Holy grail: Star Trek replicator, Nano-scale 3D
printing, instantiation of living things, synthetic
morphogenesis
Related technologies: additive manufacturing,
distributed manufacturing, nature’s
morphogenesis.
Status: unstoppable avalanche. Think years,
not decades.

6. AUTONOMOUS
VEHICLES
Remove the driver from the vehicle (car,
airplane, ship).
Status: closely follows the progress in
machine learning and artificial
intelligence though it does not need to
be a ML/AI solution itself.
As with all autonomous and AI-based
technology: ethical and legal issues to be
solved, certainly when applied for
military purposes.
Requires large investments in
infrastructure.
Status: very large industry effort to get
this thing going. General-purpose full
autonomy not anytime soon but already
very useable partial autonomy.

7. THE INTERNET OF THINGS
Everything connected to the internet, like a
bionic layer over planet earth.
From large industrial machines to MEMS
(micro electromechanical sensors).
Typical, predictable technological
innovation: will get faster, cheaper FAST!
Huge privacy and security issues, a hackers
paradise.
Status: unstoppable avalanche.
Think years, not decades

8. Programs that are ‘intelligent’
(confusion right there: intelligent does
not mean autonomous or sentient).
Experts agree ‘human AI’ not anytime
soon. I Doubt 100% human AI is
possible. No, Musk, Gates and Hawkin
are not experts.
‘By 2029 many computer or machine
intelligence will have passed the
Turing test’
Status: already widespread use for
specialized tasks, first general purpose
AI (the Alpha GO) self-teaches and
outplays humans on Go and Atari-
games.
Holy grail: emotions, self-awareness
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

9. BIONICS
(mind-controlled) exoskeletons, prosthetics, body-
parts and super-senses.
Partly in realm of engineering and as such will see the
same (albeit more uneven) exponential progress (3D-
printing, materials, electronics etc). The neurological /
biological part of the tech will remain difficult.
Successful neural interfaces within a decade.
Status: successful on disabled people but won’t be
popular among healthy people soon because
mechanics still very inferior to organics.
H+ (transhumanism or ‘the augmented human’) very
real.

10. PLATFORM IS THE NEW FACTORY
A platform is an organization that
crowdsources its resources and
coordinates crowd collaboration.
Extremely scalable. Extremely
lightweight: only a business core.
Problems: single point of control,
potentially a tool for ‘enslaving’ and
dronifying the many by the few.
Status: very mature concept,
implementations resisted by ‘something’,
will go gradually.
http://airbnb.com
http://uber.com

11. GLOBAL DECENTRALISED AUTONOMY
A global base layer of decentralized
autonomous platforms that
automates and democratizes social
utility and service functions, such as
governments, banks, payment-
systems, energy grids, health-care,
transportation, cloud-services,
exchanges, markets, etc.
Based on open-source software,
distributed collaboration and
blockchain technology.
The great equalizer.
Status: needs maturation of
blockchain technology, will be
resisted by ‘the powers that be’. Not
anytime soon.

12. THE BLOCKCHAIN
The decentralized ledger. Eliminates the need for
trusted or intermediate parties when transacting.
Blockchains enable property (incl. money) to be
exchanged and assigned instantly, undisputable, secure
and interneted.
Makes any property ‘cash’ property.
“On the blockchain, nobody knows you’re a fridge”,
allows machines to become economic actors.
Status: immature technology, will be huge, but not any
time soon. Solution looking for a problem.

13. ANTI-GRAVITY DEVICES
‘Electrogravitics’. Manipulating gravity like we can manipulate
electromagnetism and light.
To be able to generate, shield, store, emit etc. gravity.
Gravity is not described by quantum theory unlike all other (known)
fundamental forces. Only scientific theory is in classical physics not
particle physics.
Status: waiting for a very fundamental scientific breakthrough

14. OVERUNITY ENERGY DEVICES
The absolute holy grail of innovation and
technology: devices that produce more
energy than they use by drawing from ‘the
zero-point field’.
Limitless, free energy.
‘The legacy of Nikolai Tesla’
Status: still very much in the realm of myth
and conspiracy theory.
‘Proven in hundreds of laboratories around the world’ --
Dr. Brian O’Leary, Ph.D, scientist, author,
Princeton/Cornell physics professor, and former NASA
astronaut.

15. Organisms created to genetic
specification.
Status: overhyped, little progress
since the disappointing Human
Genome Project. Big ethical
issues. We can modify plants to
grow human collagen, not much
more
Genetic determinism still just an
dream. Genomics stumbling from
one failing hypothesis to another.
Being able to decode or edit a
genome does not mean
understanding it. At all. It takes
more than CRISPR.
Greedy investment climate
because of big, patentable
promises.
DESIGNER SPECIES

16. NATURE IS THE ULTIMATE TECHNOLOGY
Nature invented 3D printing billion years ago (morphogenesis).
Has been running an internet for millions of years (mycelia).
Is using quantum technology for millions of years (bird navigation).
Etc.
A human cell has 10 billion moving parts, more complicated than a
modern nuclear submarine. Your body has 370 trillion such cells.
Science not very successful in understanding nature because she
doesn’t fit the mechanistic paradigm. Her most common trick (self-
organization, homeostasis, anti-chaos) has no scientific explanation.
Nature is the master of exponentiality and crowdsourcing. It’s
everywhere.
For solutions, always look to nature first! Bio-mimicry.
‘The more technology evolves, the more it will become biological’

17. THANK YOU
Deepak Pareek, CEO
HNYB TECH-INCUBATIONS PRIVATE LIMITED
deepak@hnyb.in
+91 9898269489
www.hnyb.in / www.dpareek.com
Twitter @pareekdeepak