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Staying ahead of the curve
“In a time of drastic changeit is the learners who inherit the future.
The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer
exists”. (Eric Hoffer)www.polarity-
consulting.net
ENERGY
WATER
TECHNOLOGY
EDUCATION
HUMAN MOVEMENT
EXPLORATION
POLICE & DEFENCE
AGRICULTURE
INNOVATION
Education
The future of blackboards and chalk ...... There is no future !
Digital TV in the learning environment
Mobile to meet the needs of our continent
Gaming in education
“In a rapidly changing world those that play catch-up ball, will never catch up”
Energy
Fossil fuelsSolar
• District energy (e.g. St Pauls in Minnesota, USA)
WindWaveNuclear using U235 & Terrapower using both U235 and U238 & FusionBio-fuelsBatteries & storage
Issues with energy: loss during transmission, storage and waste, inconsistency from sustainable source energy vs consistency of fossil fuels but CO₂ pollution, use of arable land to grow bio-fuel cropsSolutions: Nanotechnology to reduce losses, smartGrids, interchangeability, use of alternative plants (algae), enhanced batteries using nanotechnology carbon tubes in Lithium Ion conductivity
St Pauls, Minnesota
Water
Water: just how is water going to be affected, by how much and where?
Purification & Restoration: optofluidics and the use of titanium dioxide nanoparticles in the cleaning up of toxins in polluted water.
In developing countries the decentralisationof water purification and a move towards purification at point-of-use
Desalination industries:
Global growth = 450% in 20 years
“Over 40 billion work hours are lost each year in Africa...to the need to fetch drinking water” (WHO, 2004)
Exploration
Space
Aerospace
Deep ocean
Innovation
Question the status quoObserveExperimentNetworkAssociate
Technology
Information Technology
• RFID chips and digital sensors (“smart dust”) detect temperature, weight, pressure and integrate into mobile and wireless communication devices
Robotics
Nanotechnology: technology > 1 nanometre , and < 100 nanometres.
a human hair is approx 80 000 nanometres wide.
Microtechnology: UAV’s
Electrotextiles (safe conduction of electricity in clothing towards wearable computerisation)
Medicine and the impact of nanotechnology
The world is becoming a “datasphere”, a place where information about people, their environment, & their actions is the primary driver
- Garfinkel
Agriculture
Regenerative agricultureTo reform soils as a carb0n sink by instilling organically managed farmingmethods. This could make use of the world 3.5 billion acres oftillable land as a means to remove 40% of the current carb0n overload.
Alternatives in agricultureAlgae vs Soya in bio-fuel farmingVertical farmingGMO’s
Police & Defence
“Some of the best future ideas in policing will likely come from disciplines that have nothing obviously to do
with law enforcement” Bubble curves in international demographics
Age
Population
Future African & Middle Eastern nation age demographics
Age
Population
Future developed nations’ age demographics
Police & Defence
“Some of the best future ideas in policing will likely come from disciplines that have nothing obviously to do
with law enforcement” Bubble curves in international demographics
Merged nation age demographics
Age
Population
Police & Defence
Culture shifts• Xenophobia, race, creed & culture shifts
Virtual and real-world resource theft & wars• Information theft• Natural resources• Energy• Human trafficking
Networking approachesNetwork centric policing (“net-centric”) models as a symptom of the Information Age
Human movement
Urbanisation trends & Megacities ( >10 000 000 people): by 2025 60% and by 2050 80% of the world’s population will live in urban areas, most of them in slums of the megacities.
What crises do you imagine?
What planning ?
UNHCR: 1 million people/dayare moving globally from rural to urban areas.
“Jo-Toria” by 2020
Work-from home trends
Thank you
“Be the change...that you would like to see in the world”
(Mahatma Gandhi)
www.polarity-consulting.net
