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Slides for my talk at IE Business School Venture Day in Lisbon on 25th June 2013. Mostly about how exponential technologies will change out lives in the coming years. Will be interesting to see the reaction that Slide 17 gets.
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The Singularity MomentSomething to believe in
Joe HaslamExecutive Director,
Owners & Entrepreneurs Management Program IE Business School
http://www.ownersandentrepreneurs.ie.edu/ IE Venture Day, LisbonTuesday June 25h 2013
Positivity and prosperity
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“the refusal to consider negative outcomes contributed directly to the current economic disaster”
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“In the next 25 years, 80% of global economic growth will originate in previously poor places”
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What is Singularity?
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“the point at which technology can start to make its own
technology and become more advanced than us”
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Progress we’ve made in this century
• Human life-expectancy more than doubled
• Infant mortality reduced by 90%
• Maternal mortality reduced by 99%
• Cost of electricity reduced by 20-fold
• Cost of transportation reduced 100-fold
• Telecom, information reduced by 1000-fold
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“more intelligence in a grain of sand than in our human brain”
Hugo de Garis
May 11, 1997Deep Blue v Kasparov (3½–2½)
January 2011 Watson has defeated two of Jeopardy's greatest players
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Alan Turing (1912 - 1954)
G Genetics (Biotech)N Nanotechnology (inside the body)R Robotics/Artificial Intelligence (biggest)
What women want?
“The Internet has mainly affected our leisure life.”
“liberation of women from manual labor has done more for democracy than the Internet”
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“entrepreneurs can do what only governments could before”Vivek Wadhwa
Joe HaslamChairman, Hot Hotels
Associate Prof, IE Business School
Lives in: Madrid, Spain
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Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
Samuel Beckett (1906- 1989)
Obrigado :-)
