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The Future of Social Objects

Nov 10, 2010, London

<0> Warmup<1> Nature Doesn’t Care<2> Change<3> Today<4> Tomorrow

David OrbanFounder & Chief Evangelist

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Warmup

27 > 100

..., 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128

... 0.0156250.031250.06250.1250.51...

Questions

Answers

Ignorance

Kevin Kelly - kk.org

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NatureDoesn’t Care

How it Used to Be

“Mother NatureIs a Bitch!”

Edward A. Murphy, Jr. - 1949 ca.

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Change

What Changed?

...Then Changed...

...And Changed Again

Technology Isthe Means

Barriers to Adoption

SocialLegal

...

...Infrastructural

Economic

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Today We Can Fail

"The formula for success? Double your rate of failure."

Thomas J. Watson, IBM

“The Internet multiplied a thousandfold our failure rate,

without increasing the cost of our success”

Cory Doctorow

<Example>

<Yesterday>

Columbus

Water Hemisphere

<Today>

Web 2.0 Startups

</Example>

William Gibson

The future is already here. It is just not evenly distributed yet

Fred Armitage

The Open Internet Of Things

Evolving Devices

Spime = SPace + tIME

Bruce Sterling

Spime

memorycomputation

communicationlocationsensor

Social Object

a spime participating in structured groups w i t h h u m a n s , o r other spimes

1

UbiquitousConnectedness

IPv4

IPv6

Atoms

≈ 109

≈ 1038

≈ 1080

A Granular World

IPv6 & Our Cells

IF we assign a unique address to each cell in the human body

THEN we can handle a septillion individuals (10^24)

WITHOUT resorting to NAT! :)

Drawing Fine Lines

Wonderlane

2

Tight Feedback Loop

Necessary Autonomy

Platform Orders of magnitude

PCs ≈ 108

Mobiles ~ Humans ≈ 109

Spimes > 1010

Around Us Already

Ryan Harvey

3

Constantly Measuring Interaction

Network Evolution

Generation Isotropy Access

Web data knowledge

Web 2.0 applications social

Spimes sensors world

Redundancy of spimes

NASA JPL

4

Realtime Data

Changing Dialogue

Generation Bandwidth M2M Index

Industrial apps Kb/s 1%

Realtime Web Mb/s 10%

Spime Networks Gb/s 99%+

M2M index: M2M/M2H, communications among machine in proportion to those with humans

Data deluge

µµ

5

New ClassesOf Useful Objects

Not Blind Anymore

Object # sensors

Mobile phone 10

Car 50-100

Awareness

Volvo

Awareness

NY Times

6

Common Sense Understanding

privacyrelationships

needsemotions

Empathy

Engaget

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What Will Be Next?

What’s On Your Radar

Banksy / Robbiedangerous

Originality & Inventiveness

Work

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jimfischer/248752580/

Food & Shelter

http://www.flickr.com/photos/hamed/1552383685/#/

Democracy

http://www.flickr.com/photos/latitudes/135745767/

New Social Contract

http://www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc/4866242774/

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