for Nov 2014 #MNBroadband Conference

1. “Grasp Your Goal Before Your Feet
Hit the Ground!”
Blandin
Foundation
&
Connect
Minnesota
by:
Jim Bensen
Cragun’s Resort
Brainerd, MN
11-19-14
Boarder-to-Boarder
BROADBAND
“No Community Left Behind!”

2. UNRIVALED
BROADBAND
SPEED
AND THE
FREEDOM
TO CHOOSE
GIGAZONE – GIGABIT FIBER NETWORK
Paul Bunyan Communications is bringing you one of the largest
Gigabit networks in the United States. Capable of download
and upload speeds of 1000 Mbps. GigaZone is the future of
broadband Internet.

3. “In the end, it is not the years in your life that count.
“The dogmas of the quiet
past, are inadequate to the
storms of the present….
So we must think anew,
and act anew.”
Abraham Lincoln
It is the life in your years.”
“You cannot evade the
responsibilities of
tomorrow by ignoring
them today.”

4. Need
another
plan!
You look up and here comes trouble!

5. Crank Up the “Speedy” Computer!
It is time up upgrade the system!

6. We are all good at reacting and responding, putting
out fires and crisis management. In addition
organizations large & small have learned to be lean
& agile, and how to execute at a high level.
However, despite these skills, General Motors still
declared bankruptcy, Blockbuster closed its last
store, & Blackberry quickly went from leading to
bleeding.
And, lets not forget Hewlett-Packard, Sony, Dell
and a host of other companies who have failed to
thrive despite its leaders & workers being
responsive, agile, and executing well.
To thrive in this new age of hyper-change &
growing uncertainty, it is now imperative to learn a
new competency – how to anticipate the future.
That may seem impossible,
but it is not. Much of the
future is there for you to see
when you know where &
when to look for it.
And when you and your
employees master this skill,
you will be able to create
what I call an Anticipatory
Organization. Dan Burrus
Being Anticipatory –
The Missing Competency!

7. Tip “Status Quo” on its Head!
You never change things
by fighting the existing
reality.
To change something,
build a new model
that makes the existing
model obsolete!
R. Buckminster Fuller
WOW!

8. What holds us back from creating and
designing a new & exciting future?
Take away the
stump?????
“The inertia of normalcy…”

9. “Only those who risk going too far can possibly
find out how far it is possible to go!”
T. S. Elliot

10. A Human Perspective!
“The stupid are
cocksure, while
the intelligent
are full of doubt!”
Bertrand Russell

11. “In times of change, the learners will inherit the earth,
while the learned will be well prepared to live
in a world that no longer exists. Eric Hoffer
Learning,
learning,
always
learning!
Learn to paddle,
learn to dive.
Then learn to fly
to stay alive!
Jim Bensen

12. Bucky Fuller!
A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist,
inventor, mechanic, objective economist, and
evolutionary strategist.”
R. Buckminster Fuller
We are not going to be able to
operate our Spaceship Earth
successfully, nor for much
longer, unless we see it as a
whole spaceship and our fate as
common. It has to be everybody
or nobody.

13. Century Focus of “Know-How”
21st
20th
19th
Age of Abstraction
Age of Electricity
Age of Machines
18th Age of Natural Power

14. THE STRAIGHT DOPE
Fighting Ignorance Since 1973
(It’s taking longer than we thought)
Cecil Adams
“World’s smartest human”
Dear Cecil:
Since light has a particle nature, &
since photons have mass, & since
our sun has been shining for 15
billion years, why aren’t we knee
deep in photons? GGlateful
Cecil replies:
Foolish creature. Photons don’t have mass. Since Vatican II even Catholics don’t
have mass. Still, we and the entire universe are knee-deep in photons in the form of
background radiation & elevates even the frozen depths of space to 3 degrees
Kelvin. You say you’re tired of the constant drone of existence & you just want to get
away from it all? Sorry, Bub, you can’t.
Cecil Adams

15. Strangled
by Lack of
Vision!
I try to buy stock in companies that are so wonderful
that an idiot can run them. Because, sooner or later,
one will. Warren Buffett

16. FROM!
To…
Toward
Futures Planning!

17. In 1995 technological breakthroughs in North America arrived once every
17 minutes ….with 10 associated services with each breakthrough!
In the Hot Seat
With a Hot Idea!
25,000 a
Day!
Today, we witness 17 major breakthroughs every minute, with 200
associated services following on their heels!
Jeff Davidson, Managing with Confidence in a World of Change

18. Quantified Knowledge!
2 Miles
Peter Lyman & Hal Varian, University of California, quantified the world’s information
again in 2002, finding that we had doubled the amount in 2000.
This time they had to employ a new term of measurement: the exabyte, or a million
terabytes. (a terabyte is a million megabytes)
In 2002 people generated 5 exabytes of information, the equivalent of a half a million
new libraries the size of the Library of Congress.
With the world’s population of 6.3 billion, that’s about 800 megabytes of recorded
information produced per person, which would take 30 feet of books to store on paper!
1,800 Exabytes in 2011!
+/-
5 Exabytes
30 ft. of books

19. Dan Burrus,
Burrus Research
When we talk about making machines “smart” we are talking about sensors. They
measure, evaluate, in short, gather data. Cloud-based applications are the key to
leveraged data as it interprets and translates the flow. The cloud permits the apps
to work for you anytime, anywhere!
Everything around us, from bridges, to cars, to homes, to work, to play, to cities
and countries, become “smart”!

20. Internet
of
Things!
When we truly consider the ramifications of connecting a vast array of data-gathering
sensors, devices and machines together, what’s important is to realize
is that information will be translated into action at a rate that we have never
seen before. We are closing in on a world with infinitesimal reaction times,
immediate responses to changing conditions, and unparalleled control in
managing assets and resources. Dan Burrus

21. The Envelope of Change!
It is no longer good enough to be on the leading edge!
Heat!
Pressure!
Ambiguity!
Risk!
Uncertainty!
Unknowns!
Failure!

22. Moore’s Law …and more!
The number of transistors on integrated circuits
double every 18 months.
--DOUBLING TIMES--
*Kevin Kelly, What Technology Wants
TECHNOLOGY METRICS MONTHS
Fiber-optic throughput Wavelengths per fiber 9
Optical network Dollars per bit 9
Wireless Bits per second 10
Communications Bits per dollar 12
Magnetic areal storage Gigabits per square inch 12
Digital cameras Pixels per dollar 12
Microprocessor Dollars per cycle 13
Supercomputer power FLOPS 14
RAM Megabytes per dollar 16
Transistor Dollars per transistor 18
PCU power consumption Watts per square centimeter 1 8
Pixels Per array 18
Hard-drive storage Gigabytes per dollar 20
Chip MIPS 21
DNA sequencing Dollars per base pair 22
Trunk-line data speed Bits per second 22
Microprocessor Transistors per chip 24
Chip processor Megahertz per dollar 27
Bandwidth Kilobits per second per
dollar
30
Microprocessor Hertz 36
Exponential
growth for
half a
century!!!

23. Viewing Personal Time!
1,000,000th Sec
10th Sec. 100th Sec 1,000th Sec
Hours! Minutes! Seconds!
Months Weeks! Days!
Generations! Lifetimes! Years!

24. How Fast ……..is Really, Really, Really Fast?
Faster!
Faster!
Faster!
+ Nano Second (billion)
+ Pica Second (trillion)
+ Femto Second (quadrillion)
…the length of time it takes light to
travel across a single cell!
+Atta Second (quintillion)
…the length of time it takes light to
travel across a single atom!
Wavecrest Corp-
Eden Prairie, MN
Ratio: 1p/sec. = 1 sec/32,000 yrs.

25. SPEED…..!
The speed of light is 186,000 feet per second or……..
700,000,000 feet per hour!
OK… so how fast is the speed of …..
DARK?
Steven Wright

26. If your car could travel at the speed of light, would your
headlights work? Steven Wright

27. Keep Track of….
…”fly by night ideas”!

28. How to
upgrade
democracy in
the Internet
era!
TED Talk
Pia Mancini, Argentina
October, 2014

29. SINGULARITY!
The point in time when
current trends may go wildly
off the charts – known as
the “Singularity” – is now
getting serious attention.
What it suggests is that
technological change will
soon become so rapid that
we cannot possibly envision
its results.
POW!

30. Swiss Solar Plane!
A Swiss-made solar plane made a 2 ½ hour flight in Western Switzerland
successfully in preparation for an around the world flight. Bertrand Picard &
Andre Borschberg, founders, say it can theoretically stay airborne indefinitely!
The Solar Impulse 2 is a
bigger & better version of a
single seat prototype that
first took flight 5 years ago.
The plane soaks up energy
from the sun through
17,200 solar cells on its
massive wings which span
235 feet.
Associated Press 6-2-14

31. Thoughts about space….
There are approximately
up to 400 billion stars in the
Galaxy of the Milky Way!
There are projections of 500 billion
GALAXIES in the universe!
There are more atoms in
“a” DNA molecule than
stars in the Milky Way!
Make an atom nucleus a
basketball & electrons
rotate at 8,000 miles!

32. This is NOT a HEMI!
Physicists at Berkley labs have constructed what may be the
world’s smallest motor. The synthetic rotational nanomotor is
about 300 times smaller than the diameter of a human hair,&
future versions may be up to five times smaller.
The tiny motor was constructed by attaching a gold paddle-shaped
rotor (between 100 & 3000 nanometers long) to a carbon
nanotube shaft that is less than 10 nanometers in diameter. The
carbon bonds that connect the components are virtually
frictionless, so the parts never wear out.
It can hold up under the most extreme environments & is
unaffected by radiation. Although the developers have measured
its speed at 33,000 cycles per second, they believe it is capable
of reaching up to a billion cycles per second.
Blood pressure monitors, environmental sensors, tire sensors,
and PDA are only a few of the potential application for the tiny
motors. (TECHNOTrends, 7-04)
Motor, on single
molecule, car
Dodge RAM!

33. Narrative
Science!
Your tweets are why the
next Walter Cronkite
will be a robot!
Of all the technology companies disrupting the field of journalism, none hits home quite
like Narrative Science. The Chicago based company which is up for a Moxie Award,
has developed an algorithm that can mimic human writing that few experts can tell
which was written by the robot.
“We can pull information from Twitter
conversations and source data and
generate stories.”
Stuart Frankel, CEO
“Good journalism isn’t about writing like
a human. It is about trust. And as trust
in conventional authoritative sources
continues to erode , robots may be
lying in the wait to pick up the slack.”

34. Jet Edge Machining!
“slicing steel with water”
High pressure water, (70,000 psi), with a
corundum crystal orifice, & induced
abrasives, allows the precision machining
of metal, stone, glass & other materials.
Ability to cut material without interfering
with its inherent structure as there is not
“heat-affected” zone.
Rough cutting, such as concrete road beds,
on to ultra high precision manufacturing are
made possible by 5 axis high performance
control systems.
Contour Sculpture
5-Axis

35. Synthetic Biology!
By programming cells as if they were computers, synthetic biologists are finding
ways to fabricate medications & dispose of radioactive waste. Ron Weiss,
Princeton University, relates that this emerging field could include “tissue
engineering, molecular fabrication of biomaterials & nanostructures , synthesis
of pharmaceutical products and bio-sensing….
What distinguishes synthetic biology from its post-genomic laboratory cousins –
genetic modification , grounded in conventional biology & biochemistry, or
nanotechnology, grounded in carbon chemistry – is that synthetic biology looks
more like computer systems engineering. Its focus is the genetic circuitry that
governs particular cellular and intercellular behaviors, explains Weiss…
Cells also exchange signals among themselves: They communicate
back & forth to coordinate responses to inputs from their environment.
So synthetic biologists are simultaneously designing genetic regulatory
& information-processing networks that exploit the power of multicellular
reactions….” (David Ollier Weber, Health Forum Publications Archives).

36. A Hand-Held DNA Sequencer
for less than $900!
Oxford Nanopore
Technologies, is entering
the genetic sequencing
race with a new portable
device that will allow
people to analyze DNA
on the go!
“The USB stick is an absolute game changer”,
Gordon Sanghera, CEO announced,
“it’s plug-and-play, on-the-go DNA sequencing!”

37. Nano-
Stethoscope!
Listen Carefully!
Our individual cells give off an acoustical
sound as they function within our bodies. The
nano-stethoscope can pick up and record the
individual acoustics to establish a base-line of
healthy cells.
A cancerous cell has a different
acoustical pattern than a healthy
one..
A secondary cancerous cell has a
different pattern than a primary one!
The Robard Institute in
Canada will have a
library of all cancer
acoustics in 6 months!

38. Self-Sculpting Sand!
No longer suppressed…. …it can form itself!

39. Smart Sand! MIT
A programmable matter system is capable of forming shapes and creating objects
through self-disassembly. Each of the disassembly phases is dependent upon a
distributed, localized message passing algorithms executing each module.
Given a bag of Smart Sand, the user conveys
the desired object to the modules and then
begins shaking the bag. As the particles in the
bag come in contact & exchange information,
they decide when to bond to their neighbors.
After this selective bonding process, the user
opens the bag, grabs the object, brushes off
the extra material, and uses the object for the
task at hand.
After the user is done with the object, it is
tossed back in the bag where it disintegrates
so that the modules can be used indefinitely!

40. Nanotubes!
A nanotube “wire” one sixth the thickness of
a human hair could suspend a fully loaded
semi-trailer!
Fullerene technology, created by
expanding the capabilities of the
“Bucky Ball”
Multi-Wall Nanotubes

41. Programmable Tattoo!

42. Is Origami
the Secret of Tech?
Professors Demaine & Rus, MIT, & Professor Wood, Harvard, work collaboratively on
folding technology utilizing biologically inspired engineering. Flowers, leaves, wings,
proteins, eyelids, ears, DNA, -- all are created by folding.
Developers are looking at how materials and
molecules wrinkle, drape, flex, and crease, using
folding to design everything from robots to cancer
drugs, from airbags to mirrors on satellite
telescopes.
Origami folding is used to create a fabric of
densely layered nanotubes that can generate
power from body heat!
RoboBee Drone!
It takes a week to assemble a
RoboBee by hand – a fraction
of a second by
pop-up folding
fabrication!

43. Aerogels
++ Solid Smoke++
Aerogels are the world’s lightest
solid materials, composed of up to
99.98% air!
Transparent superinsulating silica
aerogels exhibit the lowest thermal
conductivity of any solid known.
Ultrahigh surface area carbon
aerogels power today’s fastest
charging supercapacitors.
Ultrastrong, bendable x-aerogels
are the lowest-density structural
materials ever developed.

44. Microelectromechanical Systems: MEMS
Tiny machines so small
that they can’t be seen
with the naked eye.
Parts measure 1 to 100
microns, about the
thickness of a human
hair.
They usually consist of a central unit that
processes data (the microprocessor) and
several components that interact with the
surroundings such as microsensors.
They merge at the nano-scale into
nanoelectromechanical systems. (NEMS)
IBM is spending $1.8 billion a year to secure
their market share.
HP believes a $10 billion investment will
establish dominance in the field.

45. MEMS Technology!
A $11.1 billion industry,
estimated to grow 63,000%
by 2017.
There are at least 50 MEMS in most
new cars.
The average cell phone has 11
MEMS in it, but that will jump to 25
very soon!

46. Lockheed Martin Announces Breakthrough
on Fusion Energy!
Lockheed Martin reported that they have
made a technological breakthrough in
developing a power source based on
nuclear fusion, and the first reactors, small
enough to fit on the back of a truck could be
ready for use within the decade.
Initial work demonstrates the feasibility of
building a 100-megawatt reactor measuring
seven feet by ten feet.
The effort seeks to harness energy released
during nuclear fusion, when atoms combine
into more stable forms.
10-20-14
BOOM!

47. Researchers Flock
to Twitter’s Data!
ill
More than 1,000 applicants are seeking access to its tweet “fire
hose”. About 500,000,000 Tweets are made a day. Called, “back
testing”, researchers back-test their hypotheses.
Beyond social monitoring, researchers are studying health care,
food borne illnesses, branding, etc. “The digital epidemiology field
is really coming into its own over the last couple years.”
Mohana Ravindranath

48. Graphene!
Strongest, thinnest, material known to exist!
Conducts heat and electricity better than anything else!
Hardest material in the world….also one of the most pliable!
It is only one atom thick and is a wonder material!
One ounce of Graphene could cover 28 football fields!
Make electronics thinner, faster, & cheaper than anything
based on silicon, with the option of making them clear and
flexible. Long lasting batteries can be submerged in water.
Cell phones would be thin as paper. Gas sensors, light
sensors & biosensors will be far smaller. Electronics will be
flexible and wearable. Can be submerged in liquids without
oxidizing, unlike other electronics. Implants read nervous
system & talk to your cells….. and, more….
Graphene
is the
future!

49. Oculus Rift
Palmer Luckey dreamed of playing video games in simulated 3-D
worlds and designed his first working prototype in his garage at the
age of 16.
Today, the 21-year-old is the founder of Oculus VR, a company that is
on the verge of releasing the Rift, an affordable virtual-reality headset
for playing ultra-immersive-video games.
Facebook bought the company for $2 billion this
spring!

50. ENTHUSIASM!
What an essential role enthusiasm plays in our lives!
It is the key ingredient that frees us from the
cramping, dark, overheated confinement of a task.
When the odds are against us, the hours are long,
and the end is not yet in view, enthusiasm rescues
us from the temptation to quit – or run away – or
complain. It takes the grit and grind out of boredom.
It calls for fresh troops when the battle gets long and
the body gets weary.
Athletes feed on it. Salesmen are motivated by it.
Teachers count on it. Students fail without it.
Few characteristics are more contagious, more
magnetic. I am convinced that one of the reasons
that God gives us so many personal promises in his
Word is to stir up our enthusiasm – to build a bonfire
in the “steam-room” of our souls.
Chuck Swindoll
Nothing
great was
ever
achieved
without
enthusiasm!
Ralph Waldo Emerson

51. Let your horses run!

52. I must hurry, for there they go…
and, I am their leader!

53. “When you are discouraged,
and, feeling a little blue,
take a look at the mighty oak,
and see what a nut can do!”
Adrian Rogers

54. Those who build the future are those who know that greater things are yet
to come, and that they themselves will help bring them about. Their minds
are illuminated by the blazing sun of hope. They never stop to doubt.
They haven’t time.”
++Melvin J. Evans++

55. When things go wrong, as they sometimes will,
When the road you’re trudging seem all up hill,
When the funds are low, and the debt are high,
When you want to smile, but you have to sigh,
When care is pressing you down a bit,
Rest, if you must, but don’t you quit.
Life is queer, with its twists and turns,
As everyone of us sometimes learns,
And many a failure turns about,
When he might have won, if he stuck it out;
Don’t give up, though the pace is slow,
You may succeed with one more blow.
Success is failure turned inside out,
The silver tint of clouds of doubt,
And you can never tell how close you are,
It may be near when it seems so far;
So stick to the fight, when the hardest hit,
Its when things seem worse, that you must not quit!
Don’t Quit!
Author Unknown

56. Thank
You!
Stay Focused!