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Yuri van Geest
@vangeest (Twitter)
06-113 19 290
Yuri.vanGeest@SingularityU.org
August 7th
2013
Inspiration Session
Future technologies

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Who am I?

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Exponential growth of technology
will disrupt your industry and
change your life.

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EXPONENTIAL GROWTH &
THE LAW OF ACCELERATING RETURNS
Credit: Ray Kurzweil and KurzweilAI.net

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Technological Domains
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Bits Genes
Atoms Neurons
Strongly
influencing
each other
People
Goods
Organisms
DIY & P2P metatrends
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Bank Simple - DIY Banking
Do-it-Yourself

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Soylent - DIY Produce
Do-it-Yourself

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ABUNDANCE

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• Blogs (2003) / Typepad
• Photos (2004) / Flickr
• Videos (2005) / YouTube
• Tweets (2007) / Twitter
• Location (2009) / FourSquare
• Personal Health Data (2012) / Quantified Self (Nike Fuel)
• DNA (2013) / 23AndMe
• Brain (2015?) / NeuroSky
From the Outside World to our Inside Worlds
Evolution: More Openness
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We Make The Invisible
Visible and Social
Planned Serendipity
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Innovation
Lean Startup - Experiment & Test

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Local Food Lab - Startup Incubators
Innovation

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ICT & mobile technology
‘Technology leveraging the internet to
enable access to products and services.’

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Square - Mobile Payment solutions

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Mobile Payment - Overview

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GoPago - Location based services

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LendingClub - Micro financing / Loans

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Kickstarter - Crowdfunding

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eToro - Crowdsourcing

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Quirky - Co-creation & Crowdsourcing

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Khan Academy - MOOCs / Education

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ProPath - Personal Performance Dashboard

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ICT & mobile technology
| New Interfaces

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Google Glass - Heads-up Display

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Leap Motion - Gesture control

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Sensoring
‘Electronic devices used to detect or sense a
signal or a physical condition and respond to
this.’

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Biometrics

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InsideTracker - Quantified Self

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LifeWatch V - QS Sensor Phone

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MC10 - Nano Tattoos

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Galvanic PIP - Stress & Relaxation

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Scanadu Scout - Medical Tricorder

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3D printing / Manufacturing
‘Additive process of making a three-
dimensional solid object of virtually any
shape from a digital model.’

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3D Systems - 3D printing

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Contour Crafting - 3D manufacturing

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TechShop - DIY/Hackerspaces

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Imagine 3D printer - Food printing

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Chemputer - 3D printed Pills

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Organovo - 3D printed Cells & Organs

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Artificial Intelligence
‘Computer science concerned with making
machines and software behave like humans.’

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Watson - Information delivery

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Google Now - Assistance & advice

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Moto X Smartphone - Sensors & AI

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Palantir - Big Data & Algorithms

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Beyond Verbal - Voice Pattern Recognition

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Google Car - Autonomous vehicles

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Neurotech
‘Technology to understand, improve and
repair the brain and various aspects of
consciousness and thought.’

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ThirdSight - Facial coding

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Affectiva - Expression Recognition

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NeuroSky - Brain-computer Interface

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Ogilvy & Myndplay - Neurotech Marketing

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TDCS - Brain stimulation

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Valkee - Mood Stimulation

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Robotics
‘Technology that deals with the design,
construction and programming of robots and
computer systems.’

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Baxter - Customizable Robot

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Swarm Robots

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Boston Dynamics - Petman

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Robot Prosthetics

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Drones
‘Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) controlled
remotely by a human or autonomously by
computers.’

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Team BlackSheep

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Drone Initiatives

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Matternet - Drone Transport

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Biotech
‘Technological applications that use living
systems and organisms to develop or make
useful products.’

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23andMe - DNA sequencing

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PulseNet (CDC) - DNA Fingerprinting Food

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Modern Meadow - 3D printed Meat

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uBiome - Microbiome sequencing

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BioCurious - DIY/Hackerspaces for Biotech

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Synthetic Biology

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Nanotech
‘Manipulating and engineering functional
systems from matter on a molecular scale.’

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Graphene - Nano Materials

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Tufts University - Edible Nano Sensors

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New energy & sustainability
‘Innovative systems that provide renewable
and sustainable energy or production so it
will minimally affect our environment.’

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Slingshot - Water Purifier

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Alta Devices - Greener Energy

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Masdar City - Smart Cities

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Biology & Technology
Man & Machine
slowly merge

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We Make The Invisible
Visible and Social
Planned Serendipity and
Synchronicity
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Connected World
Key Enabler of
Intention Economy / VRM
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“Man knows himself only to the extent that he
knows the world; he becomes aware of
himself only within the world, and aware of
the world only within himself.”
“Every object, well contemplated, opens up a
new organ of perception within us.”
(Goethe)
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We will become more of
ourselves and more
(uniquely) human (creative,
bottom up, purpose, soul,
passion, connected)
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Exponential growth of technology
will disrupt your industry and
change your life.

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Yuri van Geest
@vangeest
+31 6 113 19 290
yurivangeest@gmail.com
Thank you!