diy days speech on innovation
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My talk today at DIY days - the audio and text of speech is crucial and hope to link soon, but here's the slide.TRANSCRIPT
Re:nventingInnovation
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Innovation
Innovation
Repetition
Stagnation
Strategies for Innovation
Futile Repetition is worse that disastrous innovation. The avant-garde is most needed during periods of redundancy.
Apollinaire (paraphrased)
"Without tubes of paint, there would have been no impressionism.” Renoir
Cutting Edge Technology +
Cutting Edge Technology + Theory
Cutting Edge Technology +
Text
+ Cutting Edge Theory
= Surrealism
Un Chien Andalou, Bunuel and Dali
Cutting Edge Technology + Theory
Cutting Edge Technology + Theory
Next in tech?Augmented Reality Electronic translation
Touch technology Virtual worlds
Geo-location Open source
Controller-less games Tagging metadata to clip level
Social Robotics Collaborative “cloud” editing
Online/Offline social networks Application Program Interface (API)
Film/Video/Animation Micro-projectors
Visual Search Quick-Response (QR) Codes
3D (& 3D Printers) Brain-computer Interface (BCI)
Laptop Quantum Computers What else?
Next in theory?Climate Change Evolutionary Psychology
Bio-Engineering Molecular Biology
Genetics - Decoding of genome Nanotechnology
Quantum Physics “Beyond Standard Model” Physics
Wave theory Terrorism/Security
Network Effects Privacy
Creation of artificial life forms Apocalyptic Theories
Singularity Inequality/Great Recession
Artificial Intelligence What else?
No Fucking Clue
The best way to predict the future is to invent itAlan Kay
Phonograph could be used to record the "Family Record"--a registry of sayings, reminiscences, etc., by members of a family in their own voices, and of the last words of dying persons. Edison, North American Review, 1887.
My Plea
Innovation
The definition of catastrophe is to have missed the opportunity.
Walter Benjamin
Invent the Future We Deserve
