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Day of the Entrepreneur 2009
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Technology, innovation
and progress – thoughts
on the big picture
Yanki Margalit
Disclaimer
My personal thoughts and an intuitive collection of anecdotes. Not a scientific paper
Photos, graphs and slides were copied from many other sources. I did my best to state the origin of materials. If you feel I should have not used specific images or text please let
me know and I will stop using it.Wikipedia – of course – has been a great compass
My thoughtsMinor Scale
• The BIG timeline - When did it all start?• Saw-tooth - Progress and decline• The last second - From year 0 to 2000• Explosion? - Accelerating technology• Windows of opportunities – Is one open now?• The Silicon Wadi - The Israeli perspective• Why - A personal question - What drives us?• The future – What is next and our responsibility
The BIG timeline• -4B -200K Developing the Homo Sapiens• -200K -40K Developing Language, Stone• -40K -12K Getting ready• -12K -5K The Neolithic revolution• -6K The Wheel• 0 2K The last second • 2K+ Nano, bio, clean, cyber
Ex-planet, Social
ProgressEnergy, pattern, direction
Good Saw-tooth(worst exists)
I feel good
I am afraid
2008 Global
Economic Data
• CIA - The World Fact Book
Time to market
1000-2000 yearsA spoked wheel on display at The National Museum of Iran, in Tehran. The wheel is dated late 2nd millennium BC and was
excavated at Choqa Zanbil.
So what is next?
• Brave new world– The ultimate promise of
technology
• Explosion
Windows for entrepreneurship
• Big and small windows
• Technology windows
• Culture & Social windows
• Personal windows
Innovation Productisation Industrialization Consolidation
• Is the software window closed?
• Is the Internet apps window still open?
• What is the next window?
The Car Industry
Consolidation
The Silicon Wadi
In and Out?
Israel
What drives us?• Greed• Fear
• Laziness• Curiosity
• Natural selection
• Self fulfillment
The FuTURE
The future
There'll be the breaking of the ancient western code
Your private life will suddenly explode There'll be phantoms There'll be fires on the road and the white man dancing
Mingle and Network
• The MIT Forum Mixer
• Tomo – Thursday 18:00
• My place – Carmeli 6 – Ramat Hen
• Networking and fun talk
• Food of the future
• To avoid payment say “Yanki invited me”
Explosion?