:Technology is neither good nor bad

nor is it neutral.(It certainly can’t be un-invented.)

THE INNOVATION & TECHNOLOGY

INNOVATION

“the process whereby new and improvedproducts, processes, materials, andservices are developed and transferredto a plant and/or market where they areappropriate”

Types of InnovationProduct InnovationDeveloping a new productIt is concerned with increasing therevenue.

Process InnovationImproving the processes employed toproduce or deliver the product, and tomake it more efficient or productiveIt is concerned with reducing the costs.

TOP INNOVATIVE COMPANIES

HOW TO BE INNOVATIVE

Do what you love.Put a dent in the universe.Connect things to spark your creativity.Say no to 1,000’s of things.Create insanely different experiences.Master the message.Sell dreams, not products.

3D PRINTING

Create objects by printing them, just input a design and raw materials.

Status: typical technological innovation that will get better, faster, cheaper exponentially.

Common in aerospace, orthopedic and dental applications. Fast adoption in oil, gas and

military

Holy grail: Star Trek replicator, Nano-scale 3D printing, instantiation of living things, synthetic

morphogenesis

Related technologies: additive manufacturing, distributed manufacturing, nature’s

morphogenesis.

Status: unstoppable avalanche. Think years, not decades.

AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES

Remove the driver from the vehicle (car, airplane, ship).

Status: closely follows the progress in machine learning and artificial intelligence though it does not need to be a ML/AI solution itself.

As with all autonomous and AI-based technology: ethical and legal issues to be solved, certainly when applied for military purposes.

Requires large investments in infrastructure.

Status: very large industry effort to get this thing going. General-purpose full autonomy not anytime soon but already very useable partial autonomy.

THE INTERNET OF THINGS

Everything connected to the internet, like a bionic layer over planet earth.

From large industrial machines to MEMS (micro electromechanical sensors).

Typical, predictable technological innovation: will get faster, cheaper FAST!

Huge privacy and security issues, a hackers paradise.

Status: unstoppable avalanche. Think years, not decades

Programs that are ‘intelligent’ (confusion right there: intelligent does not mean autonomous or sentient).

Experts agree ‘human AI’ not anytime soon. I Doubt 100% human AI is possible. No, Musk, Gates and Hawkinare not experts.

‘By 2029 many computer or machine intelligence will have passed the Turing test’

Status: already widespread use for specialized tasks, first general purpose AI (the Alpha GO) self-teaches and outplays humans on Go and Atari-games.

Holy grail: emotions, self-awareness

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

BIONICS(mind-controlled) exoskeletons, prosthetics, body-parts and super-senses.

Partly in realm of engineering and as such will see the same (albeit more uneven) exponential progress (3D-printing, materials, electronics etc). The neurological / biological part of the tech will remain difficult.

Successful neural interfaces within a decade.

Status: successful on disabled people but won’t be popular among healthy people soon because mechanics still very inferior to organics.

H+ (transhumanism or ‘the augmented human’) very real.

PLATFORM IS THE NEW FACTORY

A platform is an organization that crowdsources its resources and coordinates crowd collaboration.

Extremely scalable. Extremely lightweight: only a business core.

Problems: single point of control, potentially a tool for ‘enslaving’ and dronifying the many by the few.

Status: very mature concept, implementations resisted by ‘something’, will go gradually.

http://airbnb.com

http://uber.com

GLOBAL DECENTRALISED AUTONOMY

A global base layer of decentralized autonomous platforms that automates and democratizes social utility and service functions, such as governments, banks, payment-systems, energy grids, health-care, transportation, cloud-services, exchanges, markets, etc.

Based on open-source software, distributed collaboration and blockchain technology.

The great equalizer.

Status: needs maturation of blockchain technology, will be resisted by ‘the powers that be’. Not anytime soon.

THE BLOCKCHAIN

The decentralized ledger. Eliminates the need for trusted or intermediate parties when transacting.

Blockchains enable property (incl. money) to be exchanged and assigned instantly, undisputable, secure

and interneted.

Makes any property ‘cash’ property.

“On the blockchain, nobody knows you’re a fridge”, allows machines to become economic actors.

Status: immature technology, will be huge, but not any time soon. Solution looking for a problem.

ANTI-GRAVITY DEVICES

‘Electrogravitics’. Manipulating gravity like we can manipulate electromagnetism and light.

To be able to generate, shield, store, emit etc. gravity.

Gravity is not described by quantum theory unlike all other (known) fundamental forces. Only scientific theory is in classical physics not particle physics.

Status: waiting for a very fundamental scientific breakthrough

OVERUNITY ENERGY DEVICES

The absolute holy grail of innovation and technology: devices that produce more energy than they use by drawing from ‘the zero-point field’.

Limitless, free energy.

‘The legacy of Nikolai Tesla’

Status: still very much in the realm of myth and conspiracy theory.

‘Proven in hundreds of laboratories around the world’ --Dr. Brian O’Leary, Ph.D, scientist, author, Princeton/Cornell physics professor, and former NASA astronaut.

Organisms created to genetic specification.

Status: overhyped, little progress since the disappointing Human Genome Project. Big ethical issues. We can modify plants to grow human collagen, not much more

Genetic determinism still just an dream. Genomics stumbling from one failing hypothesis to another.

Being able to decode or edit a genome does not mean understanding it. At all. It takes more than CRISPR.

Greedy investment climate because of big, patentable promises.

DESIGNER SPECIES

NATURE IS THE ULTIMATE TECHNOLOGY

Nature invented 3D printing billion years ago (morphogenesis). Has been running an internet for millions of years (mycelia).

Is using quantum technology for millions of years (bird navigation). Etc.

A human cell has 10 billion moving parts, more complicated than a modern nuclear submarine. Your body has 370 trillion such cells.

Science not very successful in understanding nature because she doesn’t fit the mechanistic paradigm. Her most common trick (self-

organization, homeostasis, anti-chaos) has no scientific explanation.

Nature is the master of exponentiality and crowdsourcing. It’s everywhere.

For solutions, always look to nature first! Bio-mimicry.

‘The more technology evolves, the more it will become biological’

THANK YOU

Deepak Pareek, CEO

HNYB TECH-INCUBATIONS PRIVATE LIMITED

deepak@hnyb.in

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