The Lab, as we may live in 2050. The possibility of collaboratories, universal innovation systems upon the Internet.

1. The Lab,
A possible world in 2050
Artur Serra
i2cat
Contribution to Futurium
Barcelona, October 29th, 2013

2. Index.
1. Upon the Net.
2.The Lab, the new hypothesis
3.Universal Innovation Systems?
4. Citizens’ labs.
5. Learning to innovate

3. I. Upon the Net.

4. Imaging every person, every thing
already connected to the Net

5. Results:
A new digital infrastructure
connecting
old economic ,social , political
structures

6. Possible future scenarios
1. Old structures reversing the new
infrastructure:
- The trustification of the Net. (Google,
Amazon, Facebook, Apple….
-Government control of the Net (NSA,
China,…)
2. New structures completing the new
infrastructure:
Birth to new cooperative and innovative
structures!!: Labs for everybody and
everywhere

7. II. The Lab
As we may live in 2050.

8. “The Lab” hypothesis
Is it possible the opening of the
innovation systems to everyone,
everywhere?
Is it possible to create a inter-
universal innovation system, open
and coopertive like Internet?8

9. “The Lab”:
the new meme.

10. III. Towards
Universal Innovation Systems.

11. Europe and the experience of
universal systems.

12. European
universal healtcare systems
Covering 100% of population
Intermediate
Clinics
Primary Health Centers
Speciallized
Hospitals

13. Spanish Healthcare System
http://saludamigos.blogspot.com.es/2011/10/lo-que-perdemos.html

14. Comparing with Innovation Systems
“The triple helix”
Universities,
company labs,
Federal labs. ….
An elite and minority
system.
?

15. The Lab motto.
ISOC (1991).
“Internet for everyone”
The Lab (2013)
“Innovation is for everyone”

16. First generation LLs

18. Cities and regions as laboratories
Next Generation LLs

19. “NYC as laboratory”, Bloomberg.
October 2013

21. Barcelona as citizens’s lab.

22. Europe as a living lab?

23. A new innovation models:
The Fourth Helix
http://tampub.uta.fi/bitstream/handle/10024/65758/978-951-44-8209-0.pdf?sequence=1

24. How to implement it?

25. III. Learning to innovate
Connecting the world of
innovation and learning

26. Current systems
of learning and innovation
Learning
systems
Innovatino
Systems
First , you all learn Then, some of you innovate

27. Longlife learning-to-innovate
process
You learn to innovate
Basic level You learn to innovate
Intermediate level
You learn to
innovate
Advanced level

28. Today basic curriculum:
Natural
languages
Formal
Languages

29. The new skills beyond OECD PISA
“The fundamental basis of the system is fatally
flawed”, says Linda Darling-Hammond, a professor
of education at Stanford and founding director of
the National Commission on Teaching and
America’s Future. “In 1970 the top three skills
required by the Fortune 500 were the three Rs:
reading, writing, and arithmetic. In 1999 the top
three skills in demand were teamwork, problem-
solving, and interpersonal skills. We need schools
that are developing these skills.”
How a Radical New Teaching Method Could
Unleash a Generation of Geniuses, )
http://www.wired.com/business/2013/10/free-thinkers/

30. The third general
purpose mental tool”
“
“ The most valuable acquisitions in a scientific
or technical education are the general-purpose
mental tools which remain serviceable for a
lifetime. I rate natural language and
mathematics as the most important of these
tools, and computer science as a third”.
WHAT TO DO TILL THE COMPUTER SCIENTIST COMES* 1968
GEORGE E. FORSYTHE, Computer Science Department, Stanford University

31. The Quintivium:
The language of innovation
a) Design Thinking
H. Simon, “The Sciences of Artificial” (1969).
CMU as design univ. (Serra 1990)
b) Computational Thinking. Jeannette Wing
(CMU), (Scratch, MIT).
c) Social Innovation. (NESTA, UK).
e) Innovation as new citizen’s ethics of liberty
and responsability. (Citilab)

32. Who are the new
innovators/teachers?
The moment of a new kind of scientists of
artificial:
-Technoanthropologists
-Technoeconomists
-Technopedagogians.
Like mathematicians and physicists became the
engineers of “computer technology”, and the
biologists became the engineers of
biotechnology, now social scientists will become
the engineers of new social, educational,
economic structures…,

33. New Methodologies for
learning to innovate
Dolors Solano, Seniorlab
Project based learning
Ricardo Torres, Digital Horchad
Personal learning environment
Jordi Delgado, Edutech
Computational thinking (Scratch)
Laia Sanchez:
Social Media literacy
Astrid Lubsen
User-driven design

34. Los pedagogos de
los procesos de innovación
Los living labs necesitamos cientificos sociales
que se hagan diseñadores:
-Innovacion social……Tecnoantropologos
-Innovacion educativa…Tecnopedagogos
-Innovacion económica…Tecnoempresarios
Como hace décadas hicieron los matemáticos
Y físicos que se hicieron diseñadores de los
Ordenadores y los lenguajes de programación

35. Fundació i2cat,
Internet 2 en Catalunya.

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