Talk on the Future Tech track at Nine Worlds 2015 - an overview of some interesting areas of emerging technology

1. Imagining the Future - When the
Future is already Now
Andy Piper
@andypiper
#NineWorlds @FutureTechTrack

2. Welcome to the Future

3. Hoverboards, flying cars,
self-tying shoelaces
1989 (showing 2015)

4. Predicting the future is hard
more visions from the past

5. 1987 - Star Trek TNG “PADD”

6. iPad
2010

7. Apocalypse then 1991 (predicting 1997)
“In three years, Cyberdyne will become the largest supplier of
military computer systems. All stealth bombers are upgraded with
Cyberdyne computers, becoming fully unmanned. Afterwards,
they fly with a perfect operational record.
The Skynet Funding Bill is passed. The system goes online
August 4th, 1997. Human decisions are removed from strategic
defense. Skynet begins to learn at a geometric rate.
It becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, August 29th.
In a panic, they try to pull the plug.”

8. Meanwhile, in 2015

9. We’re on a road to…
somewhere?
Gartner Hype Cycle, Aug 2014

10. • virtual reality
• 3D printing
• nano / biotech
• AI / Deep Learning
• wearables / embeddables
• autonomous transport

11. Virtual Reality

12. “Lawnmower Man era” 1992-2000

13. Second Life / online late 2000s

14. Oculus and beyond the future is now (again)

15. 3D printing

16. Scan, copy, repeat…

17. Reprap

18. Food is just the start of more

19. nano/biotech

20. From images… 1990

21. … to “movies”… 2014

22. … to transistors! 2015

23. wearables / embeddables

24. Transforming health

25. Monitoring and detection

26. AI / Deep Learning

27. autonomous transport

28. Elon Musk

31. Final thoughts

32. Making the future real

33. 2011: Nike release
“Air Mag” shoes
LEGO version by
Alex Jones / “Orion Pax”

34. Hover boards
… nearly cracked it!

35. argh OK… so they have cracked it

37. – Sarah Connor
“August 29, 1997, came and went. Nothing much happened.
Michael Jackson turned 40. There was no Judgment Day.
People went to work as they always do. Laughed,
complained, watched TV, made love.
I wanted to run through the street yelling to grab them all and
say, "Every day from this day on is a gift. Use it well."”

38. • Google/MIT algorithm separating reflections from photos
• Braille Smartwatch
• “Star Trek” SCiO Sprectrometer scanner
• Graphene!

39. I’m doneThank you

40. Connect
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41. Image credits
• Cities of the Future https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/
File:Depiction_of_a_futuristic_city.jpg
• Gartner hype cycle http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/2819918
• Oculus https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Oculus_Rift_development_kit_2.jpg
• LEGO Nike Mag http://www.flickr.com/photos/orion_pax/6158500167/in/photostream/
• Skynet comic http://xkcd.com/1046/
• Others author’s own, or royalty-free and CC-licensed works
from sxu.hu and Wikimedia Commons
• see also http://www.zenka.org/history-of-virtual-reality-and-augmented-reality-timeline/