4. ARGUMENT
This is a story with 6 parts.
1. Shit’s going to get Crazy
2. The Internet is about to become Aware of the World
5. ARGUMENT
This is a story with 6 parts.
1. Shit’s going to get Crazy
2. The Internet is about to become Aware of the World
3. That means there’s some Really Amazing Opportunities!
6. ARGUMENT
This is a story with 6 parts.
1. Shit’s going to get Crazy
2. The Internet is about to become Aware of the World
3. That means there’s some Really Amazing Opportunities!
4. But There’s Also a Big Problem (Privacy)
7. ARGUMENT
This is a story with 6 parts.
1. Shit’s going to get Crazy
2. The Internet is about to become Aware of the World
3. That means there’s some Really Amazing Opportunities!
4. But There’s Also a Big Problem (Privacy)
5. We can Do Something about it
8. ARGUMENT
This is a story with 6 parts.
1. Shit’s going to get Crazy
2. The Internet is about to become Aware of the World
3. That means there’s some Really Amazing Opportunities!
4. But There’s Also a Big Problem (Privacy)
5. We can Do Something about it
6. We can Design to Empower The People
9. ARGUMENT
This is a story with 6 parts.
1. Shit’s going to get crazy
2. The Internet is about to become Aware of the World
3. That means there’s some really amazing opportunities!
4. But There’s Also a Big Problem (Privacy)
5. We can Do Something about it
6. We can design to Empower The People
10. REVOLUTIONS IN COMMUNICATION
• Spoken Language: 40,000 years ago
• Written Language: 15,000 years ago
• Agricultural Revolution: 12,000 years ago
• Printing Press: 500 years ago (1439)
• Industrial Revolution: 350 years ago (1750’s)
• Public Internet: 20 years ago (1989)
• Ambient / Virtual Revolution: 2020’s – 2040’s
The Modern
Human
Evolves
11. REVOLUTIONS IN COMMUNICATION
• Spoken Language: 40,000 years ago
• Written Language: 15,000 years ago
• Agricultural Revolution: 12,000 years ago
• Printing Press: 500 years ago (1439)
• Industrial Revolution: 350 years ago (1750’s)
• Public Internet: 20 years ago (1989)
• Ambient / Virtual Revolution: 2020’s – 2040’s
Civilization
Began
10,000 BC
12. REVOLUTIONS IN COMMUNICATION
• Spoken Language: 40,000 years ago
• Written Language: 15,000 years ago
• Agricultural Revolution: 12,000 years ago
• Printing Press: 500 years ago (1439)
• Industrial Revolution: 350 years ago (1750’s)
• Public Internet: 20 years ago (1989)
• Ambient / Virtual Revolution: 2020’s – 2040’s
Material
Abundance
13. REVOLUTIONS IN COMMUNICATION
• Spoken Language: 40,000 years ago
• Written Language: 15,000 years ago
• Agricultural Revolution: 12,000 years ago
• Printing Press: 500 years ago (1439)
• Industrial Revolution: 350 years ago (1750’s)
• Public Internet: 20 years ago (1989)
• Ambient / Virtual Revolution: 2020’s – 2040’s
”What will the
future look
like?”
14. REVOLUTIONS IN COMMUNICATION
• Spoken Language: 40,000 years ago
• Written Language: 15,000 years ago
• Agricultural Revolution: 12,000 years ago
• Printing Press: 500 years ago (1439)
• Industrial Revolution: 350 years ago (1750’s)
• Public Internet: 20 years ago (1989)
• Ambient / Virtual Revolution: 2020’s – 2040’s
It’s going to
happen very
quickly.
15. ARGUMENT
This is a story with 6 parts.
1. Shit’s going to get crazy
2. The Internet is about to become Aware of the World
3. That means there’s some Really Amazing Opportunities!
4. But There’s Also a Big Problem (Privacy)
5. We can Do Something about it
6. We can Design to Empower The People
16. FUTURICA
Technologies
• 5g
• IoT
• Blockchain
• A.I.
• Mixed Reality
• Natural Language
A Tipping Point?
• The next 10 years will see the physical
world become digitized, significantly
deepening the roots of the digital
infrastructure.
• New forms of philosophy, language, and art
will expand our reality.
Virtual / Ambient Revolution
17. ARGUMENT
This is a story with 6 parts.
1. Shit’s going to get crazy
2. The Internet is about to become Aware of the World
3. That means there’s some Really Amazing Opportunities!
4. But There’s Also a Big Problem (Privacy)
5. We can Do Something about it
6. We can Design to Empower The People
18. INDUSTRIES
In the Factory
• There is a virtual model of the factory,
monitoring the movement of all the
materials, people, and machines, in real
time.
In Education
• Why go to university, or even public
school? Education happens in Mixed
Reality.
• Truth and Identity are defined by the
blockchain, not the ivory tower.
In Civics
• Truth and Identity get a physical
embodiment in the blockchain.
• Distributed and semi-automated legal
structures replace corporations.
In Healthcare
• The computer has a real time look into
your health, and all public health.
• Telepresence in medicine and surgery.
19. INDUSTRIES
In the Factory
• There is a virtual model of the factory,
monitoring the movement of all the
materials, people, and machines, in real
time.
In Education
• Why go to university, or even public
school? Education happens in Mixed
Reality.
• Truth and Identity are defined by the
blockchain, not the ivory tower.
In Civics
• Truth and Identity get a physical
embodiment in the blockchain.
• Distributed and semi-automated legal
structures replace corporations.
In Healthcare
• The computer has a real time look into
your health, and all public health.
• Telepresence in medicine and surgery.
20. INDUSTRIES
In the Factory
• There is a virtual model of the factory,
monitoring the movement of all the
materials, people, and machines, in real
time.
In Education
• Why go to university, or even public
school? Education happens in Mixed
Reality.
• Truth and Identity are defined by the
blockchain, not the ivory tower.
In Civics
• Truth and Identity get a physical
embodiment in the blockchain.
• Distributed and semi-automated legal
structures replace corporations.
In Healthcare
• The computer has a real time look into
your health, and all public health.
• Telepresence in medicine and surgery.
21. INDUSTRIES
In the Factory
• There is a virtual model of the factory,
monitoring the movement of all the
materials, people, and machines, in real
time.
In Education
• Why go to university, or even public
school? Education happens in Mixed
Reality.
• Truth and Identity are defined by the
blockchain, not the ivory tower.
In Civics
• Truth and Identity get a physical
embodiment in the blockchain.
• Distributed and semi-automated legal
structures replace corporations.
In Healthcare
• The computer has a real time look into
your health, and all public health.
• Telepresence in medicine and surgery.
22. SCENARIO 1
Agriculture
Will the next agricultural revolution
be genetically modified
monocultures?
Or will it be a distributed system of
semi-automated organic farms &
managed wilderness?
23. SCENARIO 2
Industry
Will the next set of factories be
owned by rich industrialists?
Or held in public trusts on the blockchain, so
that all may invest and share in the wealth of
their output?
24. ARGUMENT
There are 6 points I want to make.
1. Shit’s going to get crazy
2. The Internet is about to become Aware of the World
3. That means there’s some really amazing opportunities!
4. But There’s Also a Big Problem (Privacy)
5. We can Do Something about it
6. We can design to Empower The People
25. THE CHALLENGE
The Government is Collecting
All The Data, and Using It To
Predict Our Behavior
Private Corporations Are
Collecting All The Data,
and Using It To
Predict Our Behavior
27. ARGUMENT
This is a story with 6 parts.
1. Shit’s going to get Crazy
2. The Internet is about to become Aware of the World
3. That means there’s some Really Amazing Opportunities!
4. But There’s Also a Big Problem (Privacy)
5. We can Do Something about it
6. We can Design to Empower The People
28. THE PROMISE OF DESIGN
We Are Designers
If Anyone Can Design A Better Future, It’s Us
29. THE PROMISE OF DESIGN
We Are Designers
If Anyone Can Design A Better Future, It’s Us
Design Will Lead Development
It’s About Making It Work For People
30. THE PROMISE OF DESIGN
We Are Designers
If Anyone Can Design A Better Future, It’s Us
Design Will Lead Development
It’s About Making It Work For People
“Augmented Intelligence”
Teach a Man To Fish
31. ARGUMENT
This is a story with 6 parts.
1. Shit’s going to get Crazy
2. The Internet is about to become Aware of the World
3. That means there’s some Really Amazing Opportunities!
4. But There’s Also a Big Problem (Privacy)
5. We can Do Something about it
6. We can Design to Empower The People
32. COOPERATIVES
The Business Structure for the
Networked Economy
Economic Democracy
More Than
Business Software
We’re Designing
A New Economy
Worker
Owner
Investor
Buyer
Passion
Public Utilities
Service Economy
Social Organizations
Creatives
33. DAEMONS & THE AUTOBROWSER
Daemon.
1. Supernatural being
between gods and
humans.
2. Background process
not under the direct
control of a user.
3. Virtual Personal Digital
Assistant.
Compute (A.I.)
On Demand
Voice Is Code
The Self-Driving
Web Browser
Computers
Learn
To Use
Human Interfaces
34. BEHAVIORAL FUTURES MARKETS
& UNIVERSAL BASIC INCOME
Health, Financial, GPS, Web
History, Energy Usage
Price is set by a behavioral
futures market
Everyone is always producing
data, so it’s a guaranteed
stream of income
Work doesn’t pay
anymore, only
ownership does.
Stop Giving
Your Data
Away
Sell It
To The Highest
Bidder
UBI
35. ARGUMENT
This is a story with 6 parts.
1. Shit’s going to get Crazy
2. The Internet is about to become Aware of the World
3. That means there’s some Really Amazing Opportunities!
4. But There’s Also a Big Problem (Privacy)
5. We can Do Something about it
6. We can Design to Empower The People
36. DESIGN PRINCIPLES
1. Design for Augmented Intelligence vs. Artificial Intelligence
2. Design for Context: Is this a Teaching Moment or a Helping Moment?
3. Design for Individuality: Transparency, Accessibility, Comprehensibility
4. Design with Ethics: We are in a unique position to champion the end user.
5. Design with Care: What matters isn’t what happens between your ears, it’s what
happens between each other.
37. CONCLUSION
If not us, then who? If not now, then when?
Are you excited? Are you terrified? Great.
Let’s do this thing.
Editor's Notes
Is this when Neanderthals and Homo Erectus went extinct.
Just 20 years ago we went through another revolution. So it’s still just getting started.
Give an example of the speed of tech advances
“What could it be in the future?...”
It only took 2,000 20-year periods
First we need a quick primer on the foundational technologies of the Age, which I’ve put into three groups. Hardware, Interfaces, and Software.
First, let’s look at the hardware.
5G and AI come together to make Compute resources, a utility on tap, just like electricity or water.
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Hardware
Robotics
3D Printers
GPU, TPU, ASIC, FPGA
Interfaces
Daemons + Avatars
Software
Nootropics
Neural Revolution
Neural Lace
Transhumanism
Super Intelligence
Quantum Computing
At Work
Why drive to the office when you can meet and work with anyone from anywhere?
In Civics: I want to relate it to the systems we have in our body: immune, nervous, lymphatic, etc. I want to show that it will evolve through competition, but also cooperation, horizontal meme-transfer, and endosymbiosis (lynn marguilis)
At Work
Why drive to the office when you can meet and work with anyone from anywhere?
In Civics: I want to relate it to the systems we have in our body: immune, nervous, lymphatic, etc. I want to show that it will evolve through competition, but also cooperation, horizontal meme-transfer, and endosymbiosis (lynn marguilis)
At Work
Why drive to the office when you can meet and work with anyone from anywhere?
In Civics: I want to relate it to the systems we have in our body: immune, nervous, lymphatic, etc. I want to show that it will evolve through competition, but also cooperation, horizontal meme-transfer, and endosymbiosis (lynn marguilis)
Healthcare
Personalized Medicine
At Work
Why drive to the office when you can meet and work with anyone from anywhere?
In Civics: I want to relate it to the systems we have in our body: immune, nervous, lymphatic, etc. I want to show that it will evolve through competition, but also cooperation, horizontal meme-transfer, and endosymbiosis (lynn marguilis)
Humanity is an organism. To survive, it must be anti-fragile.
Diversity + Competition + Cooperation + Mimicry + Symbiosis = Evolution
One is the continuation of
We are just behavioral surplus. The world is collapsing around us, and we are lost and confused.
Suppression of Individuality to make us more predictable
Reduces the diversity we need for cultural anti-fragility
Is there another way?
Google, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft, Cambridge Analytica, etc.
Ask people how they feel about privacy.
We are just behavioral surplus. The world is collapsing around us, and we are lost and confused.
Suppression of Individuality to make us more predictable
Reduces the diversity we need for cultural anti-fragility
Is there another way?
It’s up to us to build the ethical tools and software that does not compromise the freedom and individuality of our users and everyone.
Social Listening – A term for listening to people on facebook
Corporations become the friction that gets competed out of the marketplace. Still need political democracy, market dynamics, and a favorable legal foundation. Will disintermediate the government at some point.
Unions are hierarchical, don’t work in a networked age.
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Companies are like children.
They need to be raised and nurtured.
But once they are old enough,
They are more served by a wide-open acceptance of the
World, and access to its anti-fragility.
Swarms & Hives (Non-hierarchical)
Hives take care of the steady-state
Swarms provide the dynamic evolutionary impulse
Definition of a daemon:
Supernatural being of a nature between gods and humans.
Background process not under the direct control of an interactive user
“Background Process”
https://app.getpocket.com/read/1383954279
OmniChannel – message, search, share, organize
Blockchain based Reliability Scores (fake news)
Language as Code
An AI that can browse any website, app, or standard visual interface in order to handle natural language queries.
Web and App domination. Facebook, Google, and all social media companies won’t be able to sell ad’s if your not looking at them.
Anonymous data. We need a Heisenberg Uncertainty for data. Perhaps if it is stored in an entangled quantum memory? I think it could be simpler than that, using mixing wallets, etc.
The behavioral futures market is where we get market growth without it being material growth. Access to a persons data is always valuable, but it requires no physical extraction.
UBI – what it is (not just what it stands for)
Your information is uploaded to a verified blockchain so that companies can trust it, even when it’s anonymous.
Wallets manage Identity
This allows anyone to make money by selling their information into a public trust blockchain, where companies can purchase that information to run their cloud services.
Start thinking about Augmented Intelligence vs. Artificial Intelligence
Design for Context
Foster Discovery rather than Destination
Jobs of the future will be a series of non-routine tasks, that require social intelligence, complex critical thinking, and creative problem-solving.
Design for Agency = Transparency, Accessibility, Comprehensibility
Empower users as individuals
Democratizing access to knowledge (data) will be of primary importance
Ethics: We are the link between Humans and Technology
Care for each other, care for our institutions, care for humanity, care for life – the care economy
Design for the Heart as well as the mind
What matters isn’t what happens between your ears, it’s what happens between each other.
Promote systems of: bottom-up, grassroots, evolutionary governance