wireless wednesday -futurist simon anderson
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Wireless Wednesday
Wireless & Future Trends
Presented by: Simon AndersonFounder of Futur1st.com
April 24th, 2013
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• “Television won’t last. It’s a flash in the pan.”
-Mary Somerville, pioneer of radio educational broadcasts, 1948
• "Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons."
-Popular Mechanics, forecasting the relentless march of science, 1949
• "The iPhone’s impact on our business will be minimal”
-Jim Balsillie, CEO, RIM (Blackberry), 2007
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5 Exabytes =
Enough data to fill ten million
high-end laptops
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“What a difference 8 years makes.
St. Peter's Square in 2005
vs. 2013.”
- @NBCNew
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• Generational Trends - The Importance of Digital Natives
• Workforce Trends
• Mobile 3.0
• The “Internet of Things”
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Generational Trends:
The Importance ofDigital Natives
10Digital Natives
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The Old “American Dream”
Bureaucracy12
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Airbnb Growth Stats 9-08 to 2-13
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Workforce and Workplace
Trends:“I can’t work 9-to-
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No More 9-516
Only 11% think...
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Great Co-Working SpaceCocoMSP.com
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Mobile 3.0Contextually Aware
and New Form Factors
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Mobile 1.0
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Mobile 2.0
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Google Now
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Education 2.0Anywhere,Anytime
The “Internet of Things”
Machine-to-MachineCommunication
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New Bridge with Sensors
I-35 BridgeCollapse
2007
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