Top Predictions for the Internet of Everything Era

Joseph M. Bradley

Vice President, IoE Practice, Cisco Consulting Services

February 23, 2015

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Hyperaware: A heightened sense of self and objects beyond our imagination

Predictive: Big Judgment will come from Big Data helping us to answer and make the Big Decisions in our life and business

Agile: Accepting and adapting to change will be more important than ever;Being a more connected world will fundamentally challenge, disrupt and shape how we think, live, work, learn, and play

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HyperawareA heightened sense of self and objects beyond what we can possibly imagine.

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The battery life of a mobile phone will increase:

1,000% to 10 days

Ultimately a smartphonewill harvest energy tocharge themselves

This Year…

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If it doesn’t workon mobile, it doesn’t work

In the next 5 years…Mobility will become the Heartbeat of Humanity

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Intelligence can be put into almost anything.

By 2020…Smart Device Will Be Almost Invisible

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Commercial deployment ofdust-sized mesh networksensors will be common

Networks will be run by scavenging enough energyfrom surrounding environments

Nano sensor densities of10,000+ per room will be achieved

By 2025…Power for Devices will Become like the Air We Breathe…

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Almost 70% of the human body will be covered with connected wearables

Sensors will drive 40% of Internet traffic

By 2020… We Become More Connected

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Computing power will be closer than ever to the human brain’s processing speed

By 2025…Computing Power = Brain Power

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Internet moves into space and other planets

Nano-satellites will proliferate in space

By 2025… Our awareness and influence will expand beyond today’s earthly, physical and mental boundaries

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90% of the cars willbe connected --working together to safely transport people

People will be able to “drive” for nearly their entire lives

By 2020…Driving Will Be Obsolete

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Worldwide Internet Access Will Replace GDP as a Key Economic Metric

Half of the 219 billion unconnected devices in the manufacturing sector will be “lit up” (connected to the Internet and generating useful data)

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Connected devices will track children withininches of their true location

In the Next 10 years… “No Child Lost” Will Become a Reality

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PredictiveBig Judgment will come from Big Data, helping people make the right

decisions about the biggest questions in life and in business.

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Consumerism… Things will arrive before you knowthey’re needed

Advertising…

We will see 50% fewer ads

The ones we do see will be 90% relevant

By 2025…The Network will Become Contextually Aware

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• Success or failure will be measured in days rather than months

• Sports debates will end

• Financial decisions will become easier

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Contextually-Aware Networks Will Permeate Other Industries, Disciplines, and Aspects of Our Lives…

Based on your child’s Digital Persona…

• He or she will be able toattend a virtual/physical school tailored to his or her personality and learningstyle

• Dating will be based on mutual compatibility rather than chance

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…will replace your credit score since it will more accurately reflect who you really are

Your Digital Persona…

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AgileA more connected world will fundamentally change how we live, work, learn,

and play. Accepting and adapting to change will be more important than ever.

New business models will challenge, disrupt, and shape value creation,

investment strategies, business cultures, and corporate structures.

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When the answers are known…leaders will be rewarded based on the questions they ask rather than the answers they give

Creativity will be more important than memorization

Digital Transformation Requires New Leadership Skillsand Ways of Thinking

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Leaders will cope with more ambiguity

Product creation will become more multi-disciplinary

Organizations Will Be Less Hierarchical

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Only 5 of the top 6 IT players today will exist

In 25 years, only one-third of all major enterprise companies will exist

In 5 years… There will be brutal consolidation in IT and Among Enterprises

By 2020…

Cisco will be the

#1 IT company

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…the first machine-generated

applications will emerge

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By 2020… The First Fully Crowd-Run Business will be a Reality

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51% of the available talent required to succeed in the digital world will be freelance workers

In 5 years…A New Business Model for Unobstructed Innovation Will Emerge

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…from being the correct things to do, to being the profitable thing to do.

Diversity and Inclusion Will Change...

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• Your primary physician may be

named, “Dr. Watson”

• Will free human doctors to expand

quality care worldwide

• Will create 500,000 software

programming jobs

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