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Disruptive TechnologiesBy Bader Abdulaziz Kanoo

Research & Innovation Summit

March 8th 2017

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Disruptive TechnologiesA disruptive technology is one that

displaces an established technology and shakes up the industry or a ground-breaking

product that creates a completely new industry.

3D PRINTING

Create objects by printing them, just input a design and raw materials.

Status: typical technological innovation that will get better, faster, cheaper exponentially.

Common in aerospace, orthopedic and dental applications. Fast adoption in oil, gas and

military

Status: unstoppable avalanche. Think years, not decades.

AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES

Remove the driver from the vehicle (car, airplane, ship).

Status: closely follows the progress in machine learning and artificial intelligence though it does not need to be a ML/AI solution itself.

As with all autonomous and AI-based technology: ethical and legal issues to be solved, certainly when applied for military purposes.

Requires large investments in infrastructure.

Status: very large industry effort to get this thing going. General-purpose full autonomy not anytime soon but already very useable partial autonomy.

THE INTERNET OF THINGS

Everything connected to the internet, like a bionic layer over planet earth.

From large industrial machines to MEMS (micro electromechanical sensors).

Typical, predictable technological innovation: will get faster, cheaper FAST!

Huge privacy and security issues, a hackers paradise.

Status: unstoppable avalanche. Think years, not decades

Programs that are ‘intelligent’

‘By 2029 no computer or machine intelligence will have passed the Turing test’

Status: already widespread use for specialized tasks, first general purpose AI (the Alpha GO) self-teaches and outplays humans on Go and Atari-games.

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Organisms created to genetic specification.

Status: overhyped, little progress since the disappointing Human Genome Project. Big ethical issues. We can modify plants to grow human collagen, not much more

Genetic determinism still just an dream. Genomics stumbling from one failing hypothesis to another.

Being able to decode or edit a genome does not mean understanding it. At all. It takes more than CRISPR.

Greedy investment climate because of big, patentable promises.

DESIGNER SPECIES

BIONICS(mind-controlled) exoskeletons, prosthetics, body-parts and super-senses.

Partly in realm of engineering and as such will see the same (albeit more uneven) exponential progress (3D-printing, materials, electronics etc). The neurological / biological part of the tech will remain difficult.

Successful neural interfaces within a decade.

Status: successful on disabled people but won’t be popular among healthy people soon because mechanics still very inferior to organics.

THE COLLABORATIVE ECONOMYAn economy in which machines,

algorithms and people are producing and sharing things without much bureaucracy or central planning.

An ecosystem of platforms.

Task-based economy, not job-based. Very compatible with robots and AI.

Like the industrial economy, it too will be owned by a few people.

Status: taking over right now, resisted big time. Think decades not years.

BITCOIN

Cash money over the internet.

No need for banks or governments.

First application of ‘the blockchain’.

Decentralizing technology.

Status: proven, stable, secure technology. Ready for take off. All it needs is a good old fashioned financial crisis.

THE BLOCKCHAIN

The decentralized ledger. Eliminates the need for trusted or intermediate parties when transacting.

Blockchains enable property (incl. money) to be exchanged and assigned instantly, undisputable, secure

and internetted.

Makes any property ‘cash’ property.

“On the blockchain, nobody knows you’re a fridge”, allows machines to become economic actors.

ANTI-GRAVITY DEVICES

‘Electrogravitics’. Manipulating gravity like we can manipulate electromagnetism and light.

To be able to generate, shield, store, emit etc. gravity.

Gravity is not described by quantum theory unlike all other (known) fundamental forces. Only scientific theory is in classical physics not particle physics.

Status: waiting for a very fundamental scientific breakthrough

OVERUNITY ENERGY DEVICES

The absolute holy grail of innovation and technology: devices that produce more energy than they use by drawing from ‘the zero-point field’.

Limitless, free energy.

Would instantly promote mankind to a type I or II civilization on the Kardashev scale.

‘The legacy of Nikolai Tesla’

Status: still very much in the realm of myth and conspiracy theory.

‘Proven in hundreds of laboratories around the world’ --Dr. Brian O’Leary, Ph.D, scientist, author, Princeton/Cornell physics professor, and former NASA astronaut.

BIOLOGY IS THE ULTIMATE TECHNOLOGY

Nature invented 3D printing billion years ago (morphogenesis). Has been running an internet for millions of years (mycelia).

Is using quantum technology for millions of years (bird navigation). Etc.

A human cell has 10 billion moving parts, more complicated than a modern nuclear submarine. Your body has 370 trillion such cells.

Science not very successful in understanding nature because she doesn’t fit the mechanistic paradigm. Her most common trick (self-

organization, homeostasis, anti-chaos) has no scientific explanation.

Nature is the master of exponentiality and crowdsourcing. It’s everywhere.

For solutions, always look to nature first! Bio-mimicry.

‘The more technology evolves, the more it will become biological’

FACTORY WORKER

FACTORY WORKER

Cost: $5 per replaced worker

per day!

AMAZON AUTOMATED WAREHOUSE

SECURITY GUARD, UBER PARKING

SNIPER

PIZZA DELIVERY GUY

ROBO CHEFF

AI LAWYER ‘ROSS’

FARM WORKERS

LET US HOPE FOR THE BEST

Houston

Technology Center-

Middle East

US -Asia- Middle East

Technology Pipeline

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“1 of 10 Technology

Incubators Changing

the World”

“1 of 12 Business

Incubators Changing

the World”

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International Business Magazine

Open Innovation = Better R&D

HTC- Middle East will accelerate and optimize the R&D efforts of

leading multinational corporations via Open Innovation

“The central idea behind open innovation is that, in a world of widely distributed

knowledge, companies cannot afford to rely entirely on their own research,

but should instead buy or license processes or inventions (i.e. patents) from other

companies.”*

“Open innovation is a paradigm that assumes that firms can and should use

external ideas as well as internal ideas, and internal and external paths to

market, as the firms look to advance their technology”**

Open Innovation was first promoted by Henry Chesbrough, a professor and

executive director at the Center for Open Innovation at the University of California,

Berkeley.

“It is understood as the systematic encouragement and exploration of a wide

range of internal and external sources for innovative opportunities, the

integration of this exploration with firm capabilities and resources, and the

exploitation of these opportunities through multiple channels.”***

HTC’s “Open InnovationProcess” intimately embeds corporate partners

within its growing ecosystem of hundreds of start up U.S. technology

companies. HTC is an external extension and accelerator for your internal

technology scouting and R&D teams.

*Chesbrough, Henry William (2003). "The era of open innovation". MIT Sloan Management Review

**Chesbrough, Henry William (1 March 2003). Open Innovation: The new imperative for creating and profiting from technology. Boston: Harvard Business Schoo

***West, J.; Gallagher, S. (2006). "Challenges of open innovation: The paradox of firm investment in open-source software". R and D Management

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Start Ups + Large Companies

HTC – Middle East connects BIGIDEAS to solve BIG PROBLEMSfor BIG COMPANIES

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OPPORTUNITIES

Connect corporations with an extensive ecosystem of

emerging disruptive technologies:

JV’s International

Licensing

Product

Testing

Strategic

Partnerships

Business

Development

Corporate

Venture

Capital

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Win-Win Collaborations

Start ups are great at

innovating but have

trouble commercializing

and scaling….

Big companies are great

at commercializing and

scaling but have trouble

innovating.

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How does USA.inc manage innovation

•Collaboration with innovators

•Support of Startups

•Acquisition of ideas and companies that

are early stratus

•Decentralized innovation model which is

highly cost effective

Focused Divisions

ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES –

Fossil, Petro-Chemicals, CCUS,

Clean, Green, Renewable

Alternative, & Water Technologies

LIFE SCIENCES –

Bio & Nano Technologies

& Medical Devices

INDUSTRIAL ITNASA –

Aerospace,

Aeronautics,

Robotics

A nexus of new ideas, technological innovation, and entrepreneurship for these four verticals.

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THANK YOU!!