Slides for my talk at IE Business School Venture Day in Lisbon on 25th June 2013. Mostly about how exponential technologies will change out lives in the coming years. Will be interesting to see the reaction that Slide 17 gets.
Understanding Entrepreneurship - “A Start-up is Not Just a Small Company”
The Singularity Moment - Something to believe in
1. The Singularity Moment
Something to believe in
Joe Haslam
Executive Director,
Owners & Entrepreneurs Management Program
IE Business School
http://www.ownersandentrepreneurs.ie.edu/ IE Venture Day, Lisbon
Tuesday June 25h
2013
13. Progress we’ve made in this century
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Human life-expectancy more than doubled
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Infant mortality reduced by 90%
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Maternal mortality reduced by 99%
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Cost of electricity reduced by 20-fold
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Cost of transportation reduced 100-fold
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Telecom, information reduced by 1000-fold
http://www.ownersandentrepreneurs.ie.edu/
15. May 11, 1997
Deep Blue v Kasparov (3½–2½)
January 2011
Watson has defeated two of Jeopardy's greatest players
http://www.ownersandentrepreneurs.ie.edu/
Alan Turing
(1912 - 1954)
16. G Genetics (Biotech)
N Nanotechnology (inside the body)
R Robotics/Artificial Intelligence (biggest)
18. “The Internet
has mainly
affected our
leisure life.”
“liberation of
women from
manual labor has
done more for
democracy than
the Internet”
http://www.ownersandentrepreneurs.ie.edu/