We have to have some idea of the world we are headed for sowhat we do will matter. It makes no sense to build a better mousetrap unless there will still be mice to trap. In this session, Stowe Boyd will explore some deep trends to help today’s startup entrepreneurs head in a profitable direction, like these:* It is the business of the future to be dangerous * Whatever the Web touches, it consumes * Technology is everything that was invented after you were thirteen * The next frontier will be the ruins of the unsustainable * The central economic imperative of the new economy is to amplify relationships.

1. What Will Matter In The Future?

2. What Will Matter In The Future?

3. What Will Matter In The Future?
Stowe Boyd
Work Talk Research

4. What Will Matter In The Future?
Stowe Boyd
Work Talk Research

5. Speculative Design
Not Science Or Art

6. Speculative Design
Not Science Or Art

7. Speculative Design

8. Speculative Design
This speculative design process doesn't necessarily
define a specific problem to solve, but establishes
a provocative starting point from which a design
process emerges. The result is an evolution of
fluctuating iteration and reflection using designed
objects to provoke questions and stimulate
discussion in academic and research settings.

9. Speculative Design
This speculative design process doesn't necessarily
define a specific problem to solve, but establishes
a provocative starting point from which a design
process emerges. The result is an evolution of
fluctuating iteration and reflection using designed
objects to provoke questions and stimulate
discussion in academic and research settings.
Nikhil Mitter

10. Speculative Design
This speculative design process doesn't necessarily
define a specific problem to solve, but establishes
a provocative starting point from which a design
process emerges. The result is an evolution of
fluctuating iteration and reflection using designed
objects to provoke questions and stimulate
discussion in academic and research settings.
Nikhil Mitter

11. It is the business of the future
to be dangerous.

12. It is the business of the future
to be dangerous.

13. It is the business of the future
to be dangerous.
Alfred North Whitehead

14. Whatever the Web touches,
it consumes.

15. Whatever the Web touches,
it consumes.

16. The world is changing from solid to liquid.

17. The world is changing from solid to liquid.

18. Technology is everything invented after
you turn thirteen.

19. Technology is everything invented after
you turn thirteen.

20. Jamais Cascio
Technology is everything invented after
you turn thirteen.

21. The frontiers of the future will be
the ruins of the unsustainable.

22. The frontiers of the future will be
the ruins of the unsustainable.

23. Bruce Sterling
The frontiers of the future will be
the ruins of the unsustainable.

24. The central economic imperative of
the new economy is to

25. The central economic imperative of
the new economy is to
amplify relationships.

26. The central economic imperative of
the new economy is to
amplify relationships.

27. Kevin Kelly
The central economic imperative of
the new economy is to
amplify relationships.

28. What Will Matter In The Future?
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