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The future of work, business, technology and communications
www.futuristgerd.com ENG www.gerdleonhard.de DE
@gleonhard
What does a Futurist do?
“Fascinating”
Fascinating and sometimes a bit scary exponential change
Everything that can be digitised or automated… will be*
http://frankdiana.wordpress.com/2014/04/03/the-smart-home/
Technology and humanity are increasingly overlapping
http://frankdiana.wordpress.com/2014/04/03/the-smart-home/
Technology and humanity are increasingly overlapping
Connecting People
Connecting Things
Connecting People
Connecting Things
Connecting Intelligence
http://frankdiana.wordpress.com/2014/04/03/the-smart-home/
Source: https://frankdiana.wordpress.com/2014/08/12/combinations-and-disruption/
Combinatorial, exponential, interdependent…
Computing: from ‘systems of records’ to
Systems of Engagement and Intelligence
“How does a man go broke? Gradually then suddenly”(Hemingway)
http://frankdiana.wordpress.com/2014/04/03/the-smart-home/
Digital transformation of every industry
IndustriesArenas
Transformation example: the thing formerly known as ‘television’
Is some of what you do, today, digitally contestable?
“The single biggest reason that companies fail is that they over-invest in what is, as opposed to what might be” Gary Hamel
Rapid deployment of artificial intelligence in many products and services
Interface (r)evolutions: re-setting human-machine relationships
Twitter: @gleonhard
Computers are no longer ‘that other thing’, outside of us
Image of BP platform via US Coast Guard
Technology becomes invisible; moves inside (of us, too)
Image: Minority Report The Movie
Image of BP platform via US Coast Guard
Predictive analytics and anticipatory services will become a default
Image: Minority Report The Movie
Not omniscience but deeper understanding and context
Via Exponential Organizations (book)
Another kind of VUCA: Velocity. Unorthodoxy. Collaboration. Awesomeness.
The future is exponential & combinatorial: “gradually then suddenly”
Consider and invest more in ‘what might be’
Deploy systems of engagement and intelligence
The new VUCA: velocity, unorthodoxy,
collaboration, awesomeness
@gleonhard
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The future will be ‘fantastic’