1. Dr.K.Prabhakar, Professor, SRM University Innovations for
Next 30 Years and Business
2. Let us do some flip learning 4/1/2014Annamalai University2
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3. Future way of getting information 4/1/2014Annamalai
University3 One of the things about learning how to read we have
been doing a lot of consuming of information through our eyes and
so on that may be a very inefficient channel. So my prediction is
that were going to ingest information. Youre going to swallow a
pill and know English. Youre going to swallow a pill and know
Shakespeare. The way to do it is through the bloodstream; once its
in your bloodstream, it basically goes through and gets into the
brain and when it knows its in the brain it deposits the
information in the right places. Ive been hanging around with Ed
Boyden and Hugh Herr and a number of people This isnt far-fetched.
Nicholas Negroponte, founder, MIT Media Lab, speaking in Session 1
at TED2014
4. What is the difference between virtual and physical worlds?
4/1/2014Annamalai University4 The seamless integration of our
physical and virtual worlds. This will bring richer experiences and
connectivity to the global population. Phil Wiser, chief technology
officer, Hearst
5. We will be connected 4/1/2014Annamalai University5 I hope it
will be a rejection of technology that makes us more isolated from
one another and more easily surveilled. I also hope we will have a
sudden, dawning realization that we forgot to read books for a
while and came to regret it. And I hope we will finally learn to
accept our own shortcomings as a species, not in a way that results
in complacency but, instead, a renewed commitment to making the
planet a more just place to be an animal, human or otherwise.
Laurel Braitman, writer, TED Fellow
6. Progress in Medicine 4/1/2014Annamalai University6 Progress
in medicine, global access to information and a global age pyramid
that is already turning upside-down will create a global movement
towards an increased demand for good health care. This in turn will
increase life expectancy and drive innovation. This re- enforcing
circle will change societies views on health care. Whereas today it
is seen as a cost that needs to be controlled which potentially
slows down progress it might become the global driving force of
innovation and humanity, replacing other areas of public investment
focus.
7. Disease Diagnosis 4/1/2014Annamalai University7 What will
blow my mind in the next 30 years is the ability to diagnose a
disease before you know that something is wrong with you, treat it
with medicines designed specifically for you and eradicate it so it
never happens again. The concept of connected health, wearable
technology and ingested medicines are all pointing us in that
direction. The ability for someone to tie it all together, tailored
for the individual is what is mind blowing. Doreen Lorenzo,
president, Quirky
8. We will understand everything better 4/1/2014Annamalai
University8 We will see the big picture with more clarity and
resolution than ever before. Whether for good or ill (and surely it
will be both), ever greater legibility of everything around us,
between us, and even in us, and in every system from the physical
to the social, financial, commercial, environmental and more is
going to transform our relationship to the world, each other and to
every system of which we are part. [Read more about "The Legible
Planet" in this separate piece, written just for TED.] Andrew Blau,
managing director, Deloitte
9. Disease and Diagnosis 4/1/2014Annamalai University9 We will
have the opportunity to have an approved chip implanted in
ourselves that will be a sensor, grabbing health data for early
detection of disease or sickness, show our location to those we
wish and provide all kinds of new real-time data. This will roll
out with early adopters, and over time gain general acceptance. As
a society, we wont really care if insurance companies have early
access to our health data, as their costs will decline and they
will be better at being fair, less litigious and more affordable.
Thus we will grant several companies (such as tomorrows Google,
Facebook, Twitter) access to even more personal data, and integrate
their offerings into our day-to-day living. We wont at first like
it, but the Supreme Court will allow police and rescue officials a
reasonable-basis standard for their grabbing our microchip data
(DUI tests roadside, etc). Also, perhaps related, we will be able
to listen to live music, at any hour, all around the world,
wherever we are, through some inner-ear adapter not unlike what we
have with todays Google Glass. We will be able to hear street
musicians from Ghana and live music in a bar from Reykjavik at
lunchtime in San Francisco. Live music will bring the next
generation closer together, with promises of global peace. Gregory
Miller, co-founder, Spacebar, former managing director,
Google.org
10. Dreams 4/1/2014Annamalai University10 Well understand what
creates dreams not just its your brain cleaning up its cache for
the day, but really understand why we dream in vivid detail, why
the stories make perfect sense while we are dreaming, but are
nonsensical upon awakened-review, and what occurrences in the day
were selected to be dreamed about that evening. It will all be
understood, and no longer will we think, Wow, that was so bizarre
that I dreamed about some man Ive never seen before, playing golf,
which I could care less about, and he asked me to marry him in
front of a crowd of 50 people, in a place Ive never been or seen.
Geraldine Carter, co-founder, director, Climate
11. Three Choices 4/1/2014Annamalai University11 Humans face
three choices in the exponential growth of information in the next
30 years: 1.To deny the power of technology to counter the feared
effects of the information explosion (like certain religions
today). 2. To delegate more to machines and live a more hedonistic
lifestyle (chasing leisure makes us more lazy). 3. To see the power
of new tools in the explosion of data to unlock the promise of
humans (through augmenting human capability). Jim Hackett,
Steelcase
12. Phtosynth and Its applications 4/1/2014Annamalai
University12 How will our minds be blown in the next 30 years?
Well, thats quite a long time, given the acceleration in history.
Still, Ill be brave and make six hypotheses. [Read all six of them
in this separate piece, written just for TED.] Blaise Agera y
Arcas, Google Photosynth
(https://www.ted.com/talks/blaise_aguera_y_a rcas_demos_photosynth)
You search and then the machine remembers and connects.
13. Autonomous Vehicles 4/1/2014Annamalai University13 What is
next? Perhaps counterintuitively, Im guessing its a visionary idea
from the late 1930s thats been revived every decade since:
autonomous vehicles. Now youre thinking, give me a break. How can a
fancy version of cruise control be profound? Well, much of our
world has been designed around roads and transportation. These were
as essential to the success of the Roman Empire as the interstate
highway to the prosperity and development of the US. Today, these
roads that interconnect our world are dominated by cars and trucks
that have largely unchanged for 100 years. Although perhaps not
obvious today, autonomous vehicles will be the key technology that
enables us to redesign our cities and by extension civilization.
Heres why. Once they become ubiquitous, each year vehicles will
save tens of thousands of lives in the United States alone, and a
million globally. Automotive energy consumption and air pollution
will be cut dramatically. Much of the road congestion in and out of
our cities will disappear. They will enable compelling new concepts
in how we design cities, work and the way we live. We will get
where were going faster and society will recapture vast amounts of
lost productivity now spent sitting in traffic, basically
polluting. But why now? Why do we think this is ready? Because over
the last 30 years people from outside the automotive industry have
spent countless billions creating the needed miracles, but for
entirely different purposes. It took folks like DARPA, universities
and companies completely outside of the automotive industry to
notice if you were clever about it, autonomy could be done now.
Bran Ferren, co-chairman, Applied Minds, speaking in session 2 of
TED2014
14. Personalization 4/1/2014Annamalai University14 People will
live in a bubble of personalized experience, where what each of us
sees and hears of the world will be different from anyone else.
This will result from a combination of factors, most notably
personalized advertising and the gradual evolution of our personal
electronic devices. By 2040, we will be surrounded by personalized
advertisements/offerings being constantly pushed to us; many
surfaces will become active and display content based on who is
looking at them at a given moment. They may even be able to
simultaneously steer a different image to each observer. We will
also deliberately augment our experience of the world with our
personal electronic devices. Glass-like devices which project
images into our eyes will be joined by unobtrusive audio and haptic
feedback devices that we will use to inform, remind and connect
ourselves. The net effect will be that each of us will
fundamentally experience a different view of reality. In many ways
that will be to our advantage, allowing us to live more informed
and potentially more connected lives. But this individualized
experience may also bring a risk of social fragmentation. The
explosion of media choices over the past 30 years has led to
narrowcasting that in turn allows us to consume media that
reinforce our beliefs and interests, leading to the increased
polarization of our society. We may find in the next 30 years, when
each of us has a different experience of the augmented world, that
we will further fragment and each only see that which reinforces
our world view. This seems like an unavoidable future based on
where technology is heading. I hope we can find a way to accentuate
the positives, share experiences and viewpoints, and prevent us
from being increasingly
15. Energy 4/1/2014Annamalai University15 In 30 years, we could
have our minds totally blown by what a high-energy planet would be
like. if energy were clean, cheap and dense, we could lift everyone
out of poverty, desalinate as much water as we need, incinerate
trash completely so wed have no waste and do many other amazing
things limited only by our imaginations. Wed be able to leave large
portions of the earth to nature and still live high quality, modern
lives on an ecologically vibrant planet. This isnt inevitable
though. It will take breakthroughs in energy technologies and major
investments in scaling them up. Government, civil society and
business will have to prioritize innovation and be realistic about
the energy needs of 9 billion people living modern lives. Rachel
Pritzker, president, Pritzker Innovation Fund
16. Pervasive Technology 4/1/2014Annamalai University16 Im so
astonished by the last 30 years that its hard to imagine what might
blow our minds in the next 30. Thats how pervasive technology has
become for many of us. Nevertheless, if we agree that we (in the
developed world) enjoy a richness of resources like: ever-greater
storage and compression power ever tinier and more powerful chips a
growing Internet of things (energy, lighting, cars, medical
devices, quantified self devices for health) a proliferation of
robotics applications Then what *should* happen in the next 30
years is that this richness evolves and extends to places that
today stumble along on 2G, dialup, or nothing at all. Im optimistic
about broadband over power lines and by balloon. I know, though
shoulda, woulda, coulda, right? So I think that what will truly
astonish me is if we humans bring ourselves to collectively care
enough to *make technology pervasive and useful for everyone
throughout the world in accordance with their needs and desires*.
What would be astonishing is if we can put aside excessive margins
and corporate amenities to the degree it takes to do the world as a
whole good. I love what access to technology can do I just want it
to be evenly distributed. That would blow my mind, and I bet Im not
alone. Karen Wickre, editorial director, Twitter
17. Connected World 4/1/2014Annamalai University17 In the next
30 years, everyone in the world will be connected. Even the most
remote communities that today can only be reached on foot will be
in contact with the rest of the world thanks to mobile connections
and delivery systems. Though I dont expect that our traditional
infrastructure (roads, landlines, postal services) will reach all
corners of the earth, new modes of transportation will proliferate,
allowing anyone to reach anyone else. Unmanned Ariel Vehicles
(UAVs) or drones are just one such mode of transport. Recently,
with the support of the Wasserman Foundation, IDEO.org explored how
drones could play a role in last-mile health delivery. We see an
astoundingly bright future for drones, one that recasts them from
agents of war to agents of change. Jocelyn Wyatt, co-lead,
executive director, IDEO.org
18. China 4/1/2014Annamalai University18 A democratic China
with a GDP that exceeds Americas. A geopolitical landscape that
will see a return to inter-state warfare as dictators push back
against the tide of democracy in a desperate attempt to hang on.
Unfortunately, that wont mean the end of intra-state warfare
either. Those wars will continue, unabated. The disappearance of
small island developing states like the Maldives due to climate
change. Sitting in traffic, but not driving; instead working in
ones car-office with a 100 gigabit wireless connection. Thinking
its normal to speak to a machine; Siri is only the tip of the
iceberg. Her is already here. And, since Im Cambodian-American, the
total transformation of Cambodia from a country where one political
leader has been in charge for nearly a quarter of a century to a
pluralistic society where good governance and human rights are the
norm. Hope springs eternal. Sophal Ear, professor, author, speaker,
US Naval postgraduate school
19. Search and Internet 4/1/2014Annamalai University19 Five to
ten years from now, search engines will be based not just on
looking for combinations of words and links but actually on reading
for understanding the billions of pages on the web and in books. So
youll be walking along, Google will pop up, and say, Mary, you
expressed concern to me a month ago that your glutathione
supplement wasnt getting past the blood/brain barrier. Well, new
research came out 13 seconds ago that shows a whole new approach to
taking glutathione; let me summarize it for you. 20 years from now,
well have nanobots another exponential trend is the shrinking of
technology that go into our brain through the capillaries and
basically connect our synthetic neocortex and the cloud, providing
an extension of our neocortex. Now today you have a computer in
your phone but if you need 10,000 computers for a few seconds to do
a complex search, you can access that for a second or two in the
cloud. In the 2030s youll be able to connect to that directly from
your brain. I m walking along, theres Chris Anderson, hes coming my
way, Id better think of something clever to say. Ive got three
seconds my 300 million modules in my neocortex wont cut it I need a
billion more. Ill be able to access that in the cloud. Our thinking
then will be a hybrid of biological and non-biological thinking.
Ray Kurzweil, inventor, futurist, CEO, KurzweilAI, speaking in
session 8 of TED2014
