The document discusses trends in hardware development, including how the wheel was the first hardware made by humans. It then discusses how lifestyle devices like smart watches and trackers are changing, as well as how 3D printing and drones will transform manufacturing and logistics. The document also notes that robots will take over mundane tasks and reduce human workload, while human augmentation through devices is another trend in hardware.

1. Hardware Development

2. What was the first hardware man ever
made?
The Wheel

3. Incremental Vs Exponential
Year 1
0
300
600
900
1200
0 2.5 5 7.5 10

4. Hardware
• After the invention of the
transistor and the past war
product frenzy
• Through the 90’s software
played a larger role than
hardware - Think of all the big
companies from the 90s
• Microsoft, Adobe, Cisco,
Oracle
• Then Moore’s law really began
to catch up

5. Lifestyle Devices
• Trackers
• Smart Watches
• Object Trackers
• Sports Trackers
• Dog Tracker

6. 3D Printing
• Manufacturing is going to change completely in the next 20 years
• Hardware development will change completely in the next 20 years

7. Drones
• Drones will change logistics
for now and for always
• Many activities that are difficult
to carry out on ground will
become possible from the air
• The cost of being in air is
greatly reduced
• Matternet - Andreas
Raptopoulos

8. Robots
• Robots are not going to be
Terminator anytime soon
• Activity based robotics
• Programmable, efficient task
executioners
• Reducing mundane tasks that
do not require mental inputs

9. Human Augmentation