The Future of the Internet, Commerce and Communications - Gerd Leonhard

Gerd LeonhardFuturist, Author

& CEOTheFuturesAgency

Big Data - Big Mobile . Big Social. Big bucks - Big noise - Big machines? The Future of the Internet

#askgerd *ask me anything!

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Next 3 years: SoLoMo Re-Imagination of...everything:)

Source: Mary Meeker State of the Internet Report 2012 / KPCB

* Meme started by Clive Humby AMA

Big Money @ Big Data = Big Temptation

Big Data: we must do better than Big Oil!

Big Data: we must do better than Big Oil!

“If you take more out than you put in the ecosystem eventually fails”

Tim O’Reilly

The center of growth will shift

Get ready to become a really global brain;)

“If you don’t measure the right thing, you don’t do the right thing”

Economist Joseph Stiglitz

From stuff to bits

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Cloud-Everything

First media, now... stuffData, Design and Emotions become the real assets

Brands: The Intangibles take over: Likes. Love. Sentiments

Image via Carola Riegler on Flickr

But ‘Liking’ is a lot more complicated than this...

Touchingdata

changes us

In-Hand ➲ With-Voice ➲ On-Glasses ➲ On-Iris ➲ Implanted ➲ ?

Mobile devices are becoming External Brains

Do you agree or disagree?We will be able to (re)-engineer ourselves - and our planet, too

What purpose should ‘amazing technology’ have?

Source: YouTube ADmented Reality - Google Glasses Remixed with Google Ads

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Google Glass 1955?

Human-to-Data-to-Human

Interfacesi.e. Sense-Making

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data oil

How will humans interface with very smart,fast, friendly and powerful data ie machines?

Real machine intelligence is coming within reach

What will define

‘human’ 5 years

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NOT Science Fiction?

‘Internet Inside’ ETA: 3-5 years

Language barriers becoming a thing of the past...?

Source: Youtube/Docomo

Re-Imagining Human-Data Relationships

From centralized to de-centralized

Locked LiquidLoose

The Future of Data: Decline of Empires, Rise of Networks

The new ‘inter-relating’

Rise of the ‘Global Village’

Ai Wei-Wei Gangnam style on Youtube @aiww

The new ‘inter-relating’...

New EnergyEcosystem

New MediaEcosystem

New EducationEcosystem New Money

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New DataEcosystem

Networked Business Models - or bust

From independent to interdependent

Video via Youtube, Tiffany Shain: Connected the Film

The Big Data Society?

http://www.wired.com/autopia/2010/09/bump-is-a-social-network-for-your-license-plate/

Totally just the tip of the iceberg...

Every thought in the open...?

Data spills are becoming increasingly likely

Do you agree or disagree:We can rely on algorithms to measure most of what and who matters

The ‘hedonic treadmill’ will get old :=)

But the Publicy Default is accelerating

But regardless of value, control and trustwe will probably start paying real $ for privacy

Source: Embleton Banksy on Flickr

Sense-Making | Curation | Filtering

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