Accelerating Change:Developing Tomorrow’s Medical ToolkitJohn Smart, President, ASF
Medicine Meets Virtual Reality 14Jan 2006 ◆ Long Beach, CA
Slides: accelerating.org/slides.html
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Presentation Outline
1. Introduction2. One Assumption3. Two Processes of Change4. Three Foresight Studies5. Four Foresight Skills6. Five Foresight Domains7. Global Trends8. Twenty Year Scenarios9. Developing Tomorrow’s Medical Toolkit10. Group Discussion
1. Introduction
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Seeing the Extraordinary Present
“There has never been a time more pregnant with possibilities.”
- Gail Carr Feldman
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Carpe Diem
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you did not do than those you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. Give yourself away to the sea of life." — Mark Twain
"In a time of change, it is learners who inherit the future. The learned find themselves well equipped to live in a world that no longer exists." — Eric Hoffer
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We Have Two Options:Future Shock or Future Shaping
“We need a pragmatic optimism, a can-do, change-aware attitude. A balance between innovation and preservation. Honest dialogs on persistent problems, tolerance of imperfect solutions. The ability to avoid both doomsaying and paralyzing adherence to the status quo.” ― David Brin
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Acceleration Studies Foundation
ASF (Accelerating.org) is a nonprofit community of 3,100 scientists, technologists, entrepreneurs, administrators, educators, analysts, humanists, and systems theorists discussing and dissecting accelerating change.
We practice “developmental future studies,” that is, we seek to discover a set of persistent factors, stable trends, convergent capacities, and highly probable scenarios for our common future, and to use this information now to improve our daily evolutionary choices.
Specifically, these include accelerating intelligence, immunity, and interdependence in our global sociotechnological systems, increasing technological autonomy, and the increasing intimacy of the human-machine, physical-digital interface.
2. One Assumption: An Accelerating, Infopomorphic Universe
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Systems Theory
Systems Theorists Make Things Simple(sometimes too simple!)
"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler."— Albert Einstein
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From the Big Bang to Complex Stars: “The Decelerating Phase” of Universal ED
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From Biogenesis to Intelligent Technology: The “Accelerating Phase” of Universal ED
Carl Sagan’s “Cosmic Calendar” (Dragons of Eden, 1977)
Each month is roughly 1 billion years.
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A U-Shaped Curve of Change
Big Bang Singularity
100,000 yrs ago: H. sap. sap.
1B yrs: Protogalaxies 8B yrs: Earth
100,000 yrs: Matter
50 yrs ago: Machina silico50 yrs: Scalar Field Scaffolds
Developmental Singularity?
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The MESTI Universe
Matter, Energy, Space, Time InformationIncreasingly Understood Poorly Known
MEST Compression/Density/Efficiency drives accelerating change.
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Physics of a “MESTI” Universe
Physical Driver: MEST Compression/Efficiency/Density
Emergent Properties: Information Intelligence (World Models) Information Interdepence (Ethics) Information Immunity (Resiliency) Information Incompleteness (Search)
An Interesting Speculation in Information Theory: Entropy = NegentropyUniversal Energy Potential is Conserved.
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Eric Chaisson’s “Phi” (Φ): A Universal Moore’s Law Curve
Free Energy Rate DensitySubstrate (ergs/second/gram)
Galaxies 0.5Stars 2 (counterintuitive)Planets (Early) 75Plants 900 Animals/Genetics 20,000(10^4)Brains (Human) 150,000(10^5) Culture (Human) 500,000(10^5)Int. Comb. Engines (10^6)Jets (10^8)Pentium Chips (10^11)
Source: Eric Chaisson, Cosmic Evolution, 2001
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The Infopomorphic Paradigm
The universe is a physical-computational system.We exist for information theoretic reasons.We’re here to create, plan, manage, and discover.
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Cosmic Embryogenesis(in Three Easy Steps)
Geosphere/Geogenesis(Chemical Substrate)
Biosphere/Biogenesis(Biological-Genetic Substrate)
Noosphere/Noogenesis(Memetic-Technologic Substrate)
Le Phénomène Humain, 1955
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881-1955)
Jesuit Priest, Transhumanist, Developmental Systems Theorist
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De Chardin on Acceleration: Technological “Cephalization” of Earth
"No one can deny that a network (a world network) of economic and psychic affiliations is being woven at ever increasing speed which envelops and constantly penetrates more deeply within each of us. With every day that passes it becomes a little more impossible for us to act or think otherwise than collectively."
“Finite Sphericity + Acceleration = Phase Transition”
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Stock on ‘Metahumanity’: The Emerging Human Machine Superorganism
Metaman: The Merging of Humans and Machines into a Global Superorganism, 1994
Biologist William Wheeler, 1937: Termites, bees, and other social animals are “superorganisms.” They increasingly can’t be understood apart from the structures their genetics compel them to construct. Developmental endpoint: an integrated cell/organism/supercolony.
3. Two Processes of Change: Evolution and Development
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The Left and Right Hands of “Evolutionary Development”
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Selection & Convergence““Convergent Selection”Convergent Selection”Emergence,Global OptimaMEST-Compression Standard AttractorsDevelopment
Replication & Variation ““Natural Selection”Natural Selection”Adaptive Radiation Chaos, ContingencyPseudo-Random SearchStrange AttractorsEvolution
Right HandLeft Hand
Well-Explored Phase Space OptimizationNew Computat’l Phase Space Opening
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Evolution vs. Development“The Twin’s Thumbprints”
Consider two identical twins:
Thumbprints Brain wiring
Evolution drives almost all the unique local patterns.Development creates the predictable global patterns.
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Marbles, Landscapes, and Basins (Complex Systems, Evolution, & Development)
The marbles (systems) roll around on the landscape, each taking unpredictable (evolutionary) paths. But the paths predictably converge (development) on low points (MEST compression), the “attractors” at the bottom of each basin.
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How Many Eyes Are Developmentally Optimal?
Evolution tried this experiment.Development calculated an operational optimum.
Some reptiles (e.g. Xantusia vigilis, and certain skinks) still have a parietal (“pineal”) vestigial third eye.
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How Many Wheels are Developmentally Optimal on an Automobile?
Examples: Wheel on Earth. Social computation device. Diffusion proportional to population density and diversity.
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Evolution and Development:Two Universal Systems Processes
Each are pairs of a fundamental dichotomy, polar opposites, conflicting models for understanding universal change. The easy observation is that both processes have explanatory value in different contexts.
The deeper question is when, where, and how they interrelate.
EvolutionChanceRandomnessVariety/ManyPossibilitiesUniquenessUncertaintyAccidentBottom-upDivergentDifferentiation
DevelopmentNecessityDeterminismUnity/OneConstraintsSamenessPredictabilityDesign (self-organized or other)Top-DownConvergentIntegration
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Two Political Polarities: Innovation/Discovery vs. Mgmt/Sustainability
Evo-Devo Theory Brings Process Balance to Political Dialogs on Innovation and Sustainability
Developmental sustainability without generativity creates sterility, clonality, overdetermination, adaptive weakness (Maoism).Evolutionary generativity (innovation) without sustainability creates chaos, entropy, a destruction that is not naturally recycling/creative (Anarchocapitalism).
4. Three Foresight Studies: Futures, Development, and Acceleration
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Humans are Prediction Systems
Jeff Hawkins, Inventor, PalmPilot, CTO, Palm ComputingFounder, Redwood Neurosciences InstituteAuthor, On Intelligence: How a New Understanding of the Brain will Lead to the Creation of Truly Intelligent Machines, 2004
“Our brain is structured for constant forecasting.”
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The Prediction Wall and The Prediction Crystal Ball
What does hindsight tell us about prediction?
The Year 2000 was the most intensive long range prediction effort of its time, done at the height of the forecasting/ operationsresearch/ cybernetics/think tank (RAND) driven/ “instrumental rationality”era of Futures Studies.
(Kahn & Wiener, 1967).
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Three Essential Foresight Studies:Futures, Development, and Acceleration
Futures Studies– “Possible” change (scenarios, alternatives)
Development Studies– “Irreversible” change (emergences, phase
changes) Acceleration Studies
– “Accelerating” change (exponential growth, positive feedback, self-catalyzing, autonomous)
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Brief History of Futures Studies
1902, H.G. Wells, Anticipations 1904, Henry Adams, A Law of Acceleration 1945, Project RAND (RAND Corp.) 1946, Stanford Research Institute (SRI International) 1962, Arthur C. Clarke, Profiles of the Future 1967, World Future Society, Institute for the Future 1970, Alvin Toffler, Future Shock 1974, University of Houston, Studies of the Future M.S. 1977, Carl Sagan, Dragons of Eden 1986, Eric Drexler, Engines of Creation, 1995, Tamkang U, Center for Futures Studies 1999, Ray Kurzweil, Age of Spiritual Machines 2002, Acceleration Studies Foundation
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Four Types of Futures Studies
– Exploratory (Speculative Literature, Art)– Consensus-Driven (Political, Trade Organizations)– Agenda-Driven (Institutional, Strategic Plans)– Research-Predictive (Stable Developmental Trends)
The last is the critical one for acceleration studies and development studies
It is also the only one generating falsifiable hypotheses
Accelerating and increasingly efficient, autonomous, miniaturized, and localized computation is apparently a fundamental meta-stable universal developmental trend. Or not. That is a key hypothesis we seek to address.
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Warning: Never Trust a Single Futurist (Including Me)Never Make Big Decisions Without Using a Futures Network
Each of us sees only a piece of the elephant and is easily wrong.
A multi-biased network gives you a wider and deeper map of the possibility space. This will make you more adaptive, and may make you more foresighted.
Modern culture spends a lot of time in the past and present, but very little thinking about personal, organizational, and global futures. Learn to fight this increasingly costly bias.
“You can’t get an unbiased education, so the next best thing is a multi-biased one.” Buckminster Fuller
Lesson: Develop your network, map the controversies, have tolerance for ambiguity, seek good data, notice weak signals, optimize today but expect emergence. Be skeptical. Consult the crowd but make your own decisions.
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Where are the U.S. College Courses in Foresight Development?
Tamkang University 27,000 undergrads Top-ranked private
university in Taiwan Like history and
current affairs, futures studies (15 courses to choose from) have been a general education requirement since 1995.
Why not here?
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Graduate Foresight Programs:Futures Studies, STS, Roadmapping
Futures Studies (two U.S. graduate programs) Science and Technology Studies (30+ U.S. programs) Tech Roadmapping (five U.S. programs. First PhD
under Mike Radnor at Northwestern in 1998).
Artificial Life, Complexity Science, Systems Science, Simulation Learning: All still too early for foresight specializations.
Tech roadmapping is a process presently being used for major capital investment in industry (e.g. ITRS, which began as NTRS only in 1992).
Tech Roadmapping is the closest yet to Development and Acceleration Studies.
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Human Development Studies:Sequential Growth Stages
Stages are probability functions, not discrete “levels” of development. They are sequential and directional, but you can regress with abnormal trauma or deterioration.
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Gilligan’s Stages of Female Moral Development
Stage Sample Question: Is abortion a woman’s right?
Universal Care(integral, weighted, plural)
“Yes, sometimes” (birth defects, etc.)
Care(culture, conformity, code)
“No” (against dominant culture/code/convention)
Selfish (ego, individual)
“Yes” (my body, my choice)
Carol Gilligan
Stages are probabilities, but they are sequential and directional. This is reasonably good research.
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Debser’s Stages of Cultural Development
Stage Sample Belief System Integral “Many things change the world.”
Rational “Science/work changes the world.”
Mythic “Other’s power changes the world.”
Magic “My wishes change the world.”
Archaic “Nothing changes the world.”
Eugene Debser
Some stage conceptions have less evidence at present, but remain good candidates for further research.
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Maslow’s Hierarchy of Self-Needs DevelopmentSmart’s Hierarchy of Technoeconomic Development
Self-transcendence(Religion & Death)
/ Property
Biotranscension Society
Digital Twin IT Society
Valuecosm IT Society
Network IT Society
Manufacturing Society
Agricultural Society
Biological Learning Stages Technological Learning Stages
/ Self-identity
/ Self-expression
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Developmental Windows
In 2005, India is seeing a grassroots movement to get schools to teach English in first grade (vs. fourth grade). Three to six is a developmental window for effortless language acquisition. Mandarin or Hindi for your child?
Zerotothree.org
What will tomorrow’s for-profit daycare chains be like?
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Something Curious Is Going On
Unexplained.(Don’t look for this in your physics or information theory texts…)
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Henry Adams, 1909: The First “Singularity Theorist”
The final Ethereal Phase would last only about four years, and thereafter "bring Thought to the limit of its possibilities."
Wild speculation or computational reality?
Still too early to tell, at present.
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Acceleration Studies: Our Historical Understanding of Accelerating Change
In 1904, we seemed nearly ready to see intrinsically accelerating progress. Then came mechanized warfare (WW I, 1914-18, WW II, 1939-45), Communist oppression (60 million deaths). 20th century political deaths of 170+ million showed the limitations of human-engineered accelerating progress models.
Today the idea of accelerating progress remains in the cultural minority, even in first world populations. It is viewed with interest but also deep suspicion by a populace traumatized by technological extremes, global divides, and economic fluctuation. Zbigniew Brzezinski, Out of Control, 1993
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The Technological Singularity Hypothesis
Each unique physical-computational substrate appears to have its own “capability curve.”
The information inherent in these substrates is apparently not made obsolete, but is instead incorporated into the developmental architecture of the next emergent system.
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The Developmental Spiral
Homo Habilis Age 2,000,000 yrs ago Homo Sapiens Age 100,000 yrs Tribal/Cro-Magnon Age 40,000 yrs Agricultural Age 7,000 yrs Empires Age 2,500 yrs Scientific Age 380 yrs (1500-1770) Industrial Age 180 yrs (1770-1950) Information Age 70 yrs (1950-2020) Symbiotic Age 30 yrs (2020-2050) Autonomy Age 10 yrs (2050-2060) Tech Singularity ≈ 2060
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Four Pre-Singularity Subcycles?
A 30-year cycle, from 1990-2020 – 1st gen "stupid net "/early IA, weak nano, 2nd
gen Robots, early Ev Comp. World security begins. A 20-year cycle, from 2020-2040
– CUI network, Biotech, not bio-augmentation, Adaptive Robots, Peace/Justice Crusades.
A 10-year cycle, from 2040-2050 – CUI personality capture (weak uploading),
Mature Self-Reconfig./Evolutionary Computing. 2050: Era of Strong Autonomy
– Progressively shorter 5-, 2-, 1-year tech cycles, each more autocatalytic, seamless, human-centric.
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Macrohistorical Singularity Books
The Evolutionary Trajectory, 1998
Singularity 2130 ±20 years
Trees of Evolution, 2000
Singularity 2080 ±30 years
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Macrohistorical Singularity Books
Why Stock Markets Crash, 2003
Singularity 2050 ±10 years
The Singularity is Near, 2005
Singularity 2050 ±20 years
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“Unreasonable” Effectiveness and Efficiency of Science and the Microcosm: Wigner and Mead
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences, Nobel Laureate Eugene Wigner, 1960 After Wigner and Freeman Dyson’s work in 1951, on symmetries and simple universalities in mathematical physics.
Commentary on the “Unreasonable Efficiency of Physics in the Microcosm,” VLSI Pioneer Carver Mead, c. 1980.
F=ma E=mc2
F=-(Gm1m2)/r2 W=(1/2mv2)
In 1968, Mead predicted we would create much smaller (to 0.15 micron) multi-million chip transistors that would run far faster and more efficiently. He later generalized this observation to a number of other devices.
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The NBIC Report and Conferences
Converging Technologies for Improving Human Performance:Nanotechnology, Biotechnology, Information Technology and Cognitive ScienceEdited by Mike Roco and William Sims Bainbridge, National Science Foundation, 2002 (NSF/DoC Sponsored Report)
www.wtec.org/ConvergingTechnologies/
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“NBICS”: 5 Choices for Strategic Technological Development
Nanotech (micro and nanoscale technology) Biotech (biotechnology, health care) Infotech (computing and comm. technology) Cognotech (brain sciences, human factors) Sociotech (remaining technology applications)
Nanotech and Infotech drive the other accelerations, and follow unique MEST-efficiency developmental dynamics.
It is a common trap to spend excessive R&D, mfg, marketing funds on too-early technology in any NBICS category. Infotech examples: A.I., multimedia, internet, wireless, fiber (Global Crossing, 1990’s)
It is almost as common to spend disproportionately on older, less centrally accelerating technologies.
Every technology has an ideal time and place for innovation and diffusion.
Be aware of both first and second mover advantages.
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Example: Holey Optical Fibers
Above: SEM image of a photonic crystal fiber. Note periodic array of air holes. The central defect (missing hole in the middle) acts as the fiber's core. The fiber is about 40 microns across.
This conversion system is a million times (106) more energy efficient than all previous converters. These are the kinds of jaw-dropping efficiency advances that continue to drive the nano and ICT revolutions.
Such advances are due even more to human discovery (in physical microspace) than to human creativity, which is why they have accelerated throughout the 20th century, even as we remain uncertain exactly why they continue to occur.
Lasers today can made cheaply only in some areas of the EM spectrum, not including, for example, UV laser light for cancer detection and tissue analysis. It was discovered in 2004 that a hollow optical fiber filled with hydrogen gas, a device known as a "photonic crystal," can convert cheap laser light to the wavelengths previously unavailable.
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Tech Roadmappers Carefully Watch Efficiency/Cost/Capacity Curves!
Toshiba Li-Ion Nanobattery What Might This Enable?80% recharge in 60 seconds99% duty after 1,000 cyclesReliable at temp extremesCost competitive
New consumer wearable and mobile electronics Military apps Plug-in hybrids at home and filling stations (“90% of an electric vehicle economy”)
“The future’s already here. It’s just not evenly distributed yet.” ― William Gibson
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An Electric Future: Natural Gas, Nanobatteries, and Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicles
Nanobatteries can make electric car recharging as fast as gas tank filling, and tomorrow's power grids will be much more decentralized than today's gasoline stations, supporting even greater city densities.
“Driving Toward an Electric Future,” John Smart, 2006
Natural gas, already 20% of US energy consumption, is the fastest growing and most efficient component.
Nanobatteries recharge 80% in 60 seconds,keep 99% of their duty after 1,000 cycles.
180+ mpg Prius. 34 miles on battery only.
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The Future of High Density Urban Transport:Underground Automated Highway Systems
May be significantly cheaper than air taxi transport. TBMs growing exponentially. No visual blight, safe, reclaim surface real estate. 10X present capacity under our cities. Requires IV’s and ZEV’s (2025+)
“Underground Automated Highway Systems: A 2030 Scenario,” John Smart, 2005
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Understanding the Lever of Nano and ICT
“The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum [representative democracy], moves the world.” (Thomas Jefferson, 1814)
The lever of accelerating information and communications technologies (in outer space) with the fulcrum of physics (in inner space) increasingly moves the world. (Carver Mead, Seth Lloyd, George Gilder…)
"Give me a lever, a fulcrum, and place to stand and I will move the world."
Archimedes of Syracuse (287-212 BC), quoted by Pappus of Alexandria, Synagoge, c. 340 AD
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Hurricane Control:New DoD/NASA/NOAA Security Mission?
Hurricane Ivan: $11B in property damage. 11 named storms in 10 months in 2004, 7 caused damage in U.S. NOAA expects decades of hurricane hyperactivity.
“Controlling Hurricanes,” Scientific American, 10.2004
Ross Hoffman, use Solar Powered Satellites (SPS’s).In 1968, Peter Glaser, microwave-relay SPS’s for power on earth, tuned away from climate. These would be tuned to water vapor (like microwave oven). Low pressure centers disruptible by atmospheric heating. Very sensitive to hi pressure side steering. Cyclones, monsoons, blizzards, possibly even tornados.
Research: Russian mylar mirrors, 1993, 1999 (failed).23 m mirror (above), 5 km light circle on the ground.Arrays would raise surface temp. several degrees.
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A Saturation Lesson: Biology vs. Technology
How S Curves Get OldResource limits in a niche
MaterialEnergeticSpatialTemporal
Competitive limits in a niche Intelligence/Info-Processing
No Known or Historical Limits to Information Acceleration 1. Our special universal structure permits each new computational
substrate to be far more MEST resource-efficient than the last2. The most complex local systems have no intellectual competitionResult: No Apparent Limits to the Acceleration of Local Intelligence, Interdependence, and Immunity in New Substrates Over Time
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Eldredge and Gould(Biological Species)
Pareto’s Law (“The 80/20 Rule”)(income distribution technology, econ, politics) Rule of Thumb: 20% Punctuation (Development)80% Equilibrium (Evolution)
Suggested Reading:For the 20%: Clay Christiansen, The Innovator's DilemmaFor the 80%: Jason Jennings, Less is More
Punctuated Equilibrium (in Biology, Technology, Economics, Politics…)
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Two Kinds of Accelerations: Transformational (Punctuation) vs. Efficiency (Equilibrium)
Business Week’s First Edition, October 1929:
IBM has an ad for “electric sorting machines.”PG&E has an ad announcing natural gas
powered factories in San Francisco.
Could we have predicted that one of these technologies would continually transform itself while another would experience accelerating incremental efficiencies but, on the surface, appear unchanged?
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Lesson: Maintaining Equilibrium is Our 80% Adaptive Strategy
While we try unpredictable evolutionary strategies to improve our intelligence, interdependence, and resiliency, these won’t always work. What is certain is that successful solutions always increase MEST efficiency, they “do more, better, with less.” Strategies to capitalize on this:
Teach efficiency as a civic and business skill. Look globally to find resource-efficient solutions. Practice competitive intelligence for MEST-efficiency. Build a national culture that rewards refinements.
Examples: Brazil's Urban Bus System. Open Source Software. Last year’s mature technologies. Recycling. 30 million old cell phones in U.S. homes and businesses.
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Acceleration Quiz
Q: Of the 100 top economies in the world, how many are multinational corporations and how many are nation states?
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Acceleration Quiz
Q: Of the 100 top revenue generating entities in the world, how many are multinational corporations and how many are nation states?
76 MNC’s and 24 Nations.
GBN, Future of Philanthropy, 2005
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Acceleration Quiz
Q: How many of the lowest net-worth Americans would it take to approximate Bill Gate’s net worth? (296 million Americans in 2005)
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Acceleration Quiz
Q: How many of the lowest net-worth Americans would it take to approximate Bill Gate’s net worth?
Roughly 110 million Americans in 1997, when his net worth was $40 billion. At $30 billion presently (2005), Mr. Gates ranks roughly as the 60th largest country, and the 55th largest business. When MSFT went public in 1986, Bill was worth $230 million.
NYU economist Edward Wolff (See also Top Heavy, 2002)
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Acceleration Quiz
Q: Disney and Sony (respectively) produce and launch one new product every _________?
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Acceleration Quiz
Q: Disney and Sony (respectively) produce and launch one new product every _________?
Three minutes for Disney.Twenty minutes for Sony.
Elizabeth Debold, What is Enlightenment?, March-May 2005
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World Economic Performance
GDP Per Capita in Western Europe,1000 – 1999 A.D.
This curve looks quite smooth on a macroscopic scale.
Notice the “knee of the curve” occurs at the industrial revolution, circa 1850.
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Oil Refinery (Multi-Acre Automatic Factory)
Tyler, Texas, 1964. 360 acres. Run by three operators, each needing only a high school education. The 1972 version eliminated the three operators.
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Understanding Process Automation
Perhaps 80% of today's First World paycheck is paid for by automation (“tech we tend”).
Robert Solow, 1987 Nobel in Economics (Solow Productivity Paradox, Theory of Economic Growth)“7/8 comes from technical progress.”
Human contribution (20%?) to a First World job is Social Value of Employment + Creativity + Education
Developing countries are next in line (sooner or later).
Continual education and grants (“taxing the machines”) are the final job descriptions for all human beings. Termite Mound
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Automation and Job Disruption
Between 1995 and 2002 the world’s 20 largest economies lost 22 million industrial jobs. This is the shift from a Manufacturing to a Service Economy.
America lost about 2 million industrial jobs, mostly to China. China lost 15 million ind. jobs, mostly to machines. (Fortune) Despite the shrinking of America's industrial work force, the country's overall industrial output increased by 50% since 1992. (Economist)
“Robots are replacing humans or are greatly enhancing human performance in mining, manufacture, and agriculture. Huge areas of clerical work are also being automated. Standardized repetitive work is being taken over by electronic systems. The key to America's continued prosperity depends on shifting to ever more productive and diverse services. And the good news is jobs here are often better paying and far more interesting than those on we knew on the farms and the assembly line.” Tsvi Bisk"The Misery of Manufacturing," The Economist. Sept. 27, 2003"Worrying About Jobs Isn't Productive," Fortune Magazine. Nov. 10, 2003 “The Future of Making a Living,” Tsvi Bisk, 2003
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Automation Development Always Creates Massive Economic-Demographic Shifts
Automating of farming pushed people into factories (1820, 80% of us were farmers, 2% today)
Automating of factories is pushing people into service (1947, 35% were in factories, 14% today)
Automating of service is pushing people into service networks (Network 2.0) (2003, 65% of GDP is service industry)
Automating of networks will push people into collective/self-expression (symbionts/valuecosm)
Automating individual and group values will push people into self-actualization (digital twins/ personality capture)
Automating of self-actualization will push people beyond biology (“transhumanity”)
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Back to the Greek Future
Greece built an enviable empire on the backs of human slaves.
21C humanity is building an even more enviable one on the backs of our robotic servants.
Expect machine emancipation, too.
“The more things change,the more some things stay the same.”
5. Four Foresight Skills: Innovation, Planning, Profiting, Predicting
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Integral (Strategic) Foresight:Greeks, Pronouns, Skill Sets and Processes
GreeksTrue
What IsGood
What ‘We’ WantBeautiful
What ‘I’ WantPronouns
It/Its We/He/She/You I/MeForesight Skill Sets
DiscoveryUniversal
ManagementSocial
CreativityIndividual
ProcessesDevelopmentConvergence
Statics/DynamicsLaw/Emergence
EvolutionDivergence
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Integral Thinking:Edward De Bono’s Six Thinking Hats
It/Its We/He/She/You I/Me
White(Facts)
Yellow(Social Positive)
Red(Intuition)
Blue(Process)
Black(Social Negative)
Green(Creative)
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Integral Maps:Ken Wilber’s Process ‘Quadrants’
Computational Processes
Management/Validity Tests
We need foresight in all quadrants (processes and management tests). • All drive change.• None can be reduced to the others• There are no others as basic!
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Types of Intelligence:Gardner’s Eight ‘Frames’/ ‘Modules’
Gardner has developed research and metrics for eight different “frames” or “modules” of human capacity. A promising way to look at thinking.
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Integral Intelligence:Gardner’s ‘Frames,’ Wilber’s ‘Lines’
I (Innovating) It (MEST Mgmt - Profiting) Intrapersonal/Self-Identity Body/Kinesthetic/Health Cog-Emot/Needs/Self-Care Creativity/Innovating/Vision
Visual/Spatial Aural/Musical MEST/Thing-Care Decisionmaking/Adapting
We (Social Mgmt - Planning) Its (Predicting) Interpersonal/Social-Identity Linguistic/Social-Narrative Intimacy/Social-Care Moral/Cultural/Social-Relation
Nature/Systems Logical/Mathematical Object Relatns/Structure-Care Discovery/Predictive/Counting
Meta/Integral/Spiritual (Attractor)
Wilber proposes additional intelligence lines/dimensions on top of Gardner’s. I’ve mapped nine I see evidence for to his quadrants above. They fit nicely.
Wilber also proposes all lines follow a developmental vector, that the higher levels of all lines look spiritual, and that the spiritual line is a convergent intelligence attractor that continually tries to look meta (above, beyond) all the other lines.
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Four Essential Foresight Skills:Innovating, Planning, Profiting, and Predicting
Innovating/Creating (I)– tools and strategies for envisioning and creating personal
preferred futures, science fiction, creative thinking, innovation, research and development, organizational leadership
Planning/Negotiating (We)– social networking, collective visioning, consensus building,
risk mgmt (insurance), budgeting, hedging, strategic planning, enterprise robustness and resilience planning
Profiting/Adapting (It)– Entrepreneurship, management and decisionmaking (ERP,
CRM, IT, HR, etc.), accounting, measured economic, social, and environmental benefits
Predicting/Discovering (Its)– soft to hard: environmental scanning, marketing research,
business intelligence, scenarios, history of prediction, roadmapping, forecasting methods, metrics, statistical trends, risk analysis, systems theory and science.
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Integral Leadership
The best leaders are passionate about 1) creating community, and 2) making it easy for users to find their voice.
Stephen Covey, The Eighth Habit, 2004
“Find your voice and inspire others to find theirs.”
Slow to criticize, ego-minimizing, always striving to be nice, modeling good behavior, empathic, yet responsive to communication problems.
6. Five Foresight Domains:Individual, Social, National, Planetary, Universal
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Integral Foresight Development: Wilber, De Bono, Gardner, Ichazo, Jenkins, Jung, Myers-Briggs, Smart
I (Innovating)Subjective Self
It (MEST Mgmt - Profiting)Objective Self
Intrapersonal/Self-Identity Body/Kinesthetic/Health Cog-Emotional/Needs/Self-Care Creativity/Innovating/Visioning The Individualist (4) (Type A) The Enthusiast (7) (Type B) “I” Introverted Orientation “F” Feeling Function INFP, INFJ, ISFP
Visual/Spatial Aural/Musical MEST/Thing-Care Decisionmaking/Adapting (Z & NZ) The Challenger (8) (Type A) The Loyalist (6) (Type B) “J” Judging Process (Think or Feel) “S” Sensing Function ESTJ, ISTJ, ESFJ, ISFJ
We (Social Mgmt - Planning)Subjective System
Its (Predicting)Objective System
Interpersonal/Social-Identity Linguistic/Social-Narrative Intimacy/Social-Care Moral/Cultural/Social-Relation The Achiever (3) (Type A) The Helper (2) (Type B) “E” Extroverted Orientation “N” Intuition Function ENFP, ENFJ, ENTP, ENTJ
Nature/Systems Logical/Mathematical Object Relations/Structure-Care Discovery/Predictive/Counting The Reformer (1) (Type A) The Investigator (5) (Type B) “P” Perceiving Process (Intuit or Sense) “T” Thinking Function INTP, ESTP, ISTP
Meta/Integral/Spiritual (Attractor) The Peacemaker (9) (Types A and B) INTJ, ESFP (Integral Types)
Wilber’s Four “Quadrants”Smart’s Four “Foresight Skills”Gardner’s Eight “Intelligences” (Multiple Intelligences)Wilber’s Nine Additional “Developmental Lines” (Smart’s Interpretation)Ichazo/Naranjo’s (Enneagram) Nine “Personality Types”, (Subtyped by Jenkin’s Type A/Type B ClassifiersMyers-Briggs Sixteen Personality Types (Jung’s 4 Mental Functions, 2 Orientations, and 2 Processes).
Fourteen of the sixteen M-B types weight to one of the four quadrants by possessing both its function and its orientation or process. Note that there are eight M-B “manager” (the most prevalent), three “creator” types, three “discoverer” types, and two “integral” types.
This seems a good reflection of these skills and prevalence in the general population.
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Integral Systems:Five Systems of Human Computation (“Dialogs”)
I (Individual) It (National)
Individual (Vitality, Creativity)
National/Tribal (Politics, Economics)
We (Social) Its (Planetary) Social/Family/Relationship (Culture, Psychology)
Planetary/Species (Peace, Globalization, Environment, Science)
Universal (Technology, Computation) (Attractor)
Question: Which is unlike the others? The universal system is growing apparently asymptotically in local capacities, affecting all the others.
These five systems/dialogs may exist on all Earth-like planets (e.g., be astrobiologically developmental).
7. Global Trends in an Accelerating World
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Three Hierarchical Systems of Social Change
Technological (dominant since 1920-50)
“It’s all about the technology” (what it enables in society, in itself, how easily it can be developed)
Economic (dominant 1800-1950’s, secondary now)“It’s all about the money” (who has it, control they gain with it)
Political/Cultural (dominant pre-1800’s, tertiary now)“It’s all about the power” (who has it, control they gain with it)
Developmental Trends: 1. The levels have reorganized, to “fastest first.”2. More pluralism (a network property) on each level.
Pluralism examples: 40,000 NGO’s, rise of the power of Media, Tort Law, Insurance, lobbies, etc.
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Smart’s Laws of Technology
1. Tech learns ten million times faster than you do.(Electronic vs. biological rates of evolutionary development).
2. Humans are selective catalysts, not controllers, of technological evolutionary development.(Regulatory choices. Ex: WMD production or transparency, P2P as a proprietary or open source development)
3. The first generation of any technology is often dehumanizing, the second is indifferent to humanity, and with luck the third becomes net humanizing. (Cities, cars, cellphones, computers).
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Classic Predictable Accelerations:Moore’s Law
Moore’s Law derives from two predictions in 1965 and 1975 by Gordon Moore, co-founder of Intel, (and named by Carver Mead) that computer chips (processors, memory, etc.) double their complexity every 12-24 months at near constant unit cost. This means that every 15 years, on average, a large number of technological capacities (memory, input, output, processing) grow by 1000X (Ten doublings: 2,4,8…. 1024). Emergence!There are several abstractions of Moore’s Law, due to miniaturization of transistor density in two dimensions, increasing speed (signals have less distance to travel) computational power (speed × density).
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Ray Kurzweil: A Generalized Moore’s Law
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Transistor Doublings (2 years)
Courtesy of Ray Kurzweil and KurzweilAI.net
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Processor Performance (1.8 years)
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DRAM Miniaturization (5.4 years)
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Dickerson’s Law: Solved Protein Structures as a Moore’s-Dependent Process
Richard Dickerson, 1978, Cal Tech:
Protein crystal structure solutions grow according to n=exp(0.19y1960)
Dickerson’s law predicted 14,201 solved crystal structures by 2002. The actual number (in online Protein Data Bank (PDB)) was 14,250. Just 49 more. Macroscopically, the curve has been quite consistent.
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Many Tech Capacity Growth Rates Are Independent of Socioeconomic Cycles
There are many natural cycles: Plutocracy-Democracy, Boom-Bust, Conflict-Peace…
Ray Kurzweil first noted that a generalized, century-long Moore’s Law was unaffected by the U.S. Great Depression of the 1930’s.
Conclusion: Human-discovered, Not human-created complexity here. Not many intellectual or physical resources are required to keep us on the accelerating developmental trajectory. (“MEST compression is a rigged game.”)
Age of Spiritual Machines, 1999
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IT’s Exponential Economics
Courtesy of Ray Kurzweil and KurzweilAI.net
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Our 2002 service to manufacturing labor ratio, 110 million service to 21 million goods workers, is 4.2:1
Automation and the Service Society
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Angus Maddison’s Phases of Capitalist Development, 1982*
*Also Pentti Malaska’s Funnel Model of Societal Transition, 1989/03
Network/Services/KM SocietySociety of Intangible Needs (“Weightless Economy”)
Network 1.0“McJobs” & Service65% of Jobs, 2000’s
Network 2.0New Middle Class40% of Jobs, 2030’s
Network 3.0Consolidation Again15% of Jobs, 2060’s
Manufacturing/Information Society Society of Tangible Needs (“Property Economy”)
Manufacturing 1.0Exploitive Jobs50% of Jobs, 1900’s
Manufacturing 2.0New Middle Class35% of Jobs, 1950’s
Manufacturing 3.0Offshoring/Globalizing14% of Jobs, 2000’s
Agricultural Society Society of Basic Needs (“Food/Shelter Economy”)
Agriculture 1.0Subsistence Jobs80% of Jobs, 1820’s
Agriculture 2.0Family Farms50% of Jobs, 1920’s
Agriculture 3.0Corporate Farms2% of Jobs, 1990’s
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Network Economy 1.0
Remittances(From Guest Workers in
U.S. and Canada)
Foreign Direct Investment(Corporate)
NGO’s(Nonprofit Contribs)
Government Aid (IMF, WB, G8, USAID)
Q: Which is a larger monetary flow in Latin America today, the bottom-up green or the top-down purple column?
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Network Economy 1.0
Remittances(From Guest Workers in
U.S. and Canada)
Foreign Direct Investment(Corporate)
NGO’s(Nonprofit Contribs)
Government Aid (IMF, WB, G8, USAID)
Q: Which is a larger monetary flow in Latin America today, the bottom-up green or the top-down purple column?
A: Remittances, since 2003. This may be a permanent shift. Shows what could happen in Africa, Russia, and other continually emigrating (“brain drain”) nations.
Future of Philanthropy, GBN, 2005
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Tools for Networking 1.0:Social Network Analysis
Note the linking nodes in these “small world” (not scale free) networks.
“Chains of Affection,” Bearman & James Moody, AJS V110 N1, Jul 2004
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Networking Books
Linked, Albert-Laszlo Barabasi, 2003Six Degrees, Duncan Watts, 2003
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Create Your Own Network:Consider Ben Franklin’s Junto
Met every Friday. The group invented: – the first subscription library in North America– the most advanced volunteer fire department– the first public hospital in Pennsylvania, – an insurance company, a constabulary,– improved streetlights, paving – the University of Pennsylvania.
Broad Interests, Narrow Tasks. – Scientist– Inventor– Businessman– Statesman
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The Voluntary Future
Lifetime hours trends: 1880 1995 2040Total Available (after eating, sleeping, etc.)
225,900 298,500 321,900
Worked to earn a living 182,100 122,400 75,900
Balance for Leisure and Voluntary Work
43,800 176,100 246,000
Prediction: Great increase in voluntary activities. Culture, entertainment, travel, education, wellness, nonprofit service, humanitarian and development work, the arts, etc.
Source: The Fourth Great Awakening and the Future of Egalitarianism, 2000, Robert Fogel (Nobel-prize-winning economist, founder of the field of cliometrics, the study of economic history using statistical and mathematical models)
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Many Accelerations are either:1) Underwhelming or 2) Logistic (“S” curves)
Some Underwhelming Exponentials:
Productivity per U.S. worker hr has improved 500% over 75 years (1929-2004, 2% per yr)
Business investment as % of U.S. GDP is flat at 11% over 25 years.
Nondefense R&D spending as % of First World GDP is up 30% (1.6 to 2.1%) over 21 years (1981-2002).
Technology spending as % of U.S. GDP is up 100% (4% to 8%) over 35 years (1967-2002)
BusinessWeek, 75th Ann. Issue, “The Innovation Economy”, 10.11.2004
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Saturation Example 1: Total World Population
Positive feedback loop: Agriculture, Colonial Expansion, Economics, Scientific Method, Industrialization, Politics, Education, Healthcare, Information Technologies, etc.
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So What Stopped the Growth?
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Saturation Example 2:Total World Energy Use
DOE/EIA data shows total world energy use growth rate peaked in the 1970’s. Real and projected growth is progressively flatter since.
Saturation factors: 1. Major conservation after OPEC (1973)2. Stunning energy efficiency of each new
generation of technological system3. Saturation of human population and
human needs for tech transformation
Royal Dutch/Shell notes that energy use declines dramatically proportional to per capita GDP in all cultures.
Steve Jurvetson notes (2003) the DOE estimates solid state lighting (eg. the organic LEDs in today's stoplights) will cut the world's energy demand for lighting in half over the next 20 years. Lighting is approximately 20% of energy demand.
Expect such MEST efficiencies in energy technology to be multiplied dramatically in coming years. Technology is becoming more energy-effective in ways very few of us currently understand.
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Global Energy Use Saturation: Energy Consumption Per Capita
When per capita GDP reaches:• $3,000 – energy demand
explodes as industrialization and mobility take off,
• $10,000 – demand slows as the main spurt of industrialization is completed,
• $15,000 – demand grows more slowly than income as services dominate economic growth and basic household energy needs are met,
• $25,000 – economic growth requires little additional energy.
Later developers, using “leapfrogging technologies”, require far less time and energy to reach equivalent GDP.
Energy Needs, Choices, and Possibilities: Scenarios to 2050, Shell Intnat’l, 2001
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Accelerating Ephemeralization and the Increasingly Weightless Economy
In 1981 (Critical Path), Fuller called ephemeralization, "the invisible chemical, metallurgical, and electronic production of ever-more-efficient and satisfyingly effective performance with the investment of ever-less weight and volume of materials per unit function formed or performed". In Synergetics 2, 1983, he called it "the principle of doing ever more with ever less weight, time and energy per each given level of functional performance”
This trend has also been called “virtualization,” “weightlessness,” and Matter, Energy, Space, Time (MEST) compression, efficiency, or density.
In 1938 (Nine Chains to the Moon), poet and polymath Buckminster Fuller coined "Ephemeralization,” positing that in nature, "all progressions are from material to abstract" and "eventually hit the electrical stage." (e.g., sending virtual bits to do physical work)Due to principles like superposition, entanglement, negative waves, and tunneling, the world of the quantum (electron, photon, etc.) appears even more ephemeral than the world of collective electricity.
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Empire Progression: An Undeniable West-East Trajectory
American
Japan(Temporary: Pop density,Few youth, no resources.East Asian Tigers(TaiwanHong KongSouth KoreaSingapore)India
ChinaExpect a Singapore-style “Autocratic Capitalist” transition. Population control, plentiful resources,stunning growth rate, drive, and intellectual capital. U.S. science fairs: 50,000 high school kids/year. Chinese science fairs: 6,000,000 kids/year. For now.
BHR-1, 2002
8. Twenty Year Scenarios
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The Symbiotic Age
A coevolution between Saturating Humans and Accelerating Technology:
A time when computers “speak our language.”A time when our technologies are very
responsive to our needs and desires.A time when humans and machines are
intimately connected, and always improving each other.
A time when we will begin to feel “naked” without our computer “clothes.”
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With the advent of the transistor (June 1, 1948), the commercial digital world emerged.
New problems have emerged (population, human rights, asymmetric conflict, environment), yet we see solutions for each in coming waves of technological globalization.
“The human does not change, but our house becomes exponentially more intelligent.”
We look back not to Spencer or Marx and their human-directed Utopias, but to Henry Adams,who realized the core acceleration is due to the intrinsic properties of technological systems.
The Start of Symbiosis: The Digital Era
Michael Riordan, Crystal Fire, 1998
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An ICT Attractor:The Conversational User Interface (CUI)
Google’s cache (2002) As we watch Windows 2004
become Conversations 2020… Convergence of Infotech and Sociotech
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Why Will Most of Us Want to Use An “Agent Interface/Digital Twin” in 2020?
“Working with Phil” in Apple’s Knowledge Navigator Ad, 1987
Ananova, 2002
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Social Software, Lifelogs
Gmail preserves, for the first time, everything we’ve ever typed. Gmailers are all bloggers (who don’t know it). Next, some of us will store everything we’ve ever said. Then everything we’ve ever seen. This storage (and processing, and bandwidth) makes us all networkable in ways we never dreamed.
Lifeblog, SenseCam, What Was I Thinking, and MyLifeBits (2003) are early examples of “LifeLogs.” Systems for auto-archiving and auto-indexing all life experience. Add NLP, collaborative filtering, and other early AI to this, and data begins turning into wisdom.
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The Valuecosm
Microcosm, Telecosm (Gilder) Datacosm (Sterling) Valuecosm (Smart) Recording and Publishing DT Preferences Avatars that Act and Transact Better for Us Mapping Positive Sum Social Interactions Much Potential For Early Abuse (Advice) Next Level of Digital Democracy (Holding
Powerful Plutocratic Actors Accountable) Early Examples: Social Network Media
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Your “Digital You” (Digital Twin)
Greg Panos (and Mother) PersonaFoundation.org
“I would never upload my consciousness into a machine.”
“I enjoy leaving behind stories about my life for my children.”
Prediction: When your mother dies in 2050, your digital mom will be “50% her.”When your best friend dies in 2080, your digital best friend will be “80% him.”
Successive approximation, seamless integration, subtle transition.
When you can shift your own conscious perspective between your electronic and biological components, the encapsulation and transcendence of the biological may begin to feel like only growth, not death.
We wouldn’t have it any other way.
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In the long run, we become seamless with our machines.No other credible long term futures have been proposed.
“Technology is becoming organic. Nature is becoming technologic.” (Brian Arthur, SFI)
Personality Capture
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AI-in-the-Interface (a.k.a. “IA”)
• AI is growing, but slowly (KMWorld, 4.2003) ― $1B in ’93 (mostly defense), $12B in 2002 (now mostly commercial). AGR of 12% ― U.S., Asia, Europe equally strong ― Belief nets, neural nets, expert sys growing faster than decision support and agents ― Incremental enhancement of existing apps (online catalogs, etc.) • Computer telephony (CT) making strides (Wildfire, Booking Sys, Directory Sys). ASR and TTS improve. Expect dedicated DSPs on the desktop after central CT. (Circa 2010-15?)• Coming: Linguistic User Interface (LUI) Persuasive Computing, and Personality Capture
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Human-Competitive Machine Intelligence: Automated Trading Comes of Age
As of 2005, automated computer trading models (algorithmic, black box, and program trading) now execute more than half of all U.S. stock trades.
From 2003 to 2005, Banc of America Securities LLC let go of half their human traders, while increasing trading volume 160%.
BusinessWeek, 4.18.2005
All major brokers are spending millions on this technology. Minor brokers coming next.
We are now seeing the beginning of the AI Age in the financial community.
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Longer Term Scenario: Solar Energy
Twenty to fifty year development horizon. 5-10% efficiencies at present. Need 50%. Need great, cheap energy storage systems.
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Ubiquitous Sensing, Geospatial Web, and Accelerating Public Transparency
Hitachi’s mu-chip: RFID for paper currency
David Brin’s “Panopticon”The Transparent Society, 1998
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Q1: Which apps have been discussed?
a. Border monitoringb. City monitoringc. Urban broadbandd. Early warning radar
Balloon Satellites: Disruptive Tech?
Inventor: Hokan Colting21stCenturyAirships.com180 feet diameter. Autonomous.60,000 feet (vs. 22,000 miles)Permanent geosynch. location.Onboard solar and navigation.A “quarter sized” receiver dish.
MEST Compression as a Developmental Attractor: Don’t Bet Against It!
Q2: Why are satellites presently failing against the wired world?
Latency, bandwidth, launch costs.
MEST compression always wins.
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Tomorrow’s Fastspace:User-Created 3D Persistent Worlds
Future Salon in Second Life Streaming audio for main speaker, chat for others. Streaming video added 2005. Cost: $10 for life + fast graphics card ($180)
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U.S. Transcontinental Railroad: Promontory Point Fervor
The Network of the 1880’s
Built mostly by hard-working immigrants
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IT Globalization (2000-2020):Promontory Point Revisited
The more things change, the more some things stay the same.
The intercontinental internet will be built primarily by hungry young programmers and tech support personnel in India, Asia, third-world Europe, Latin America, and other developing economic zones. In coming decades, such individuals will outnumber the First World technical support population between five- and ten-to-one.
Consider what this means for the goals of U.S. business and education: Global management, partnerships, and collaboration.
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Information Age: Staggered Closing of Global Divides
Digital divide is already closing fast. 77% of the world now has access to a telephone*. Innovation leader: Grameen Telecom
Income divide may be closing the next fastest. First world plutocracy still increasing, but we are already “rationalizing” global workforce wages in the last decade*.
Education divide may close next (post-CUI) Power divide likely to close last. Political
change is the slowest of all domains.
*World Bank, 2005
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New Business IA/Social Network Idea: 24/7 Affordable Tech Education
From Geek Squad to Global Computer Helpers
80 million smart, underemployed tech workers, working at a salary of $1,400/year (China, India)
+ 140 million U.S. labor force (2000).+ Exponentiating capabilites of our IT systems+ Commodity communications costs+ PC transparency software (Gotomypc)+ Trust (Privacy)= 24/7 Tech Education
How soon? Watch Dell…
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Our Generation’s Theme
First World SaturatingThird World Uplifting
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The Pentagon’s New Map
A New Global Defense Paradigm
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Shrinking the Disconnected Gap
The Computational “Ozone Hole”
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Robo sapiens
AIST and Kawada’s HRP-2
(Something very cool about this algorithm…)
“Huey and Louey”
Aibo Soccer
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A Prediction: The Sputnik of Networking 2.0 Society
Sputnik (1957) Humbot 0.1 (2005) Humbot 1.0 (2025)
U.S.-SurpassingSpace/Defense Tech
U.S. Soldier-EnhancingSecurity/Warfighting Tech
Global Soldier-SurpassingSecurity/Policing Tech
Q: Will the U.S. national security sector supply the world with Humbot 1.0?This is an important strategic uncertainty at present. The choice is ours.
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A Networking 2.0 Strategic Proposal: Innovate, Collaborate, and “Fight for 40%”
IBM-Lenovo (Chinese Computer Company) laptop deal. IBM retains 18% ownership.
Is this a true innovation partnership? We can make the deal so interdependent that
it must be. Technology interdependence runs ahead of
corporate interdependence which then leads political interdependence today globally. (Not usually the reverse).
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Our Greatest Strategic Interest: Managing Globalization
“America has had 200 years to invent, regenerate, and calibrate
the balance that keeps markets free without becoming monsters. We
have the tools to make a difference. We have the responsibility to make a difference. And we have a huge
interest in making a difference. Managing globalization is… our
overarching national interest today and the political party that
understands that first… will own the real bridge to the future.”
Thomas Friedman, The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding
Globalization (2000).
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Globalization Management
Backlash forces have to be kept in check by:
• Global tech innovation and diffusion• Global economic growth• Global political
• accountability• transparency• fair policies• minimal government (maximizing tech and
economic development)• security
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Interdependency/Development Metrics
Core Countries– Tech, Econ, Cultural Exchange Bandwidth– Guest Worker Programs/Visa Reform
Gap Countries– Child and Infant Mortality Rates (Lagging Indicators)
“The primary global currencies by which the “quick and privileged” negotiate change with the “slower and deprived” (Pete Lantz)
– Infrastructure– Information Access (Culturally Appropriate)
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S-Curves and Creative Destruction
New Old Europe (Network 1.0)Newly Creatively Destructive
Spain’s Recent Creation of Two-Tier Workforce. “McJobs” Under 40). (20 5% Unemployment)Ireland, New E.U. (10 on flat tax)
New Asia (Network 1.0)Very High CD Index
Taiwan, Hong Kong, China, Korea, Singapore, Malaysia, India, Vietnam, etc.
United States (Network 0.8)50% CD Index
50% of top 25 companies no longer top after 25 years.We are IT-challenged vs. Asia
Japan (Network 1.0)Old Europe (Mfg 3.0)Low/Very Low CD Index
Germany (13% unemployment)Italy (11% unemployment)France (10% unemployment)
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Taiwan’s Example
Taiwan has one of the highest degrees of economic creative destruction in the world.
Taiwan owns 46,000 contract factories in China (mutually assured economic destruction).
Taiwan has become the IT hardware manufacturing capital of the world.
Tamkang U. in Taiwan requires its university undergraduates to take courses in Futures Studies. (Coincidence?)
9. Developing Tomorrow’s Medical Toolkit
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Digging the Data Mine: Epidemiology
Greg Cole, UCLA, noticed:1. Asian Indians have 25% of U.S.
Alzheimer’s rates, but often equivalent heart disease.
2. Curcumin, the lipophilic dye in Turmeric (Indian curry spice) looks like Congo Red (which binds to Amyloid plaques.
Result: The most exciting new potential Alzheimer’s therapy in a decade.
"Curcumin inhibits formation of amyloid beta oligomers and fibrils, binds plaques, and reduces amyloid in vivo.," Yang F, Cole GM, etc., J Biol Chem 2005 Feb 18; 280(7):5892-5901
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Globalized Health Care
When will we see the first HMO willing to fly its patients globally for procedures?
To train international physicians in a global health care network?
International ‘medical tourism’ is already a booming industry.
In vitro fert. in Israel: $12K vs. 90K in USHeart surgery in India: $20K vs. 200KAnd outcomes are often even better!
(higher volume, more specialization).
There are huge political barriers but major opportunities as well.
4G Web: Personalized physician access 24/7, moving to preventative medicine finally.
Kaiser? Subspecialty HMO leader.
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Innovation and IP Balance: Lessons of Bose and Microvision
Innovation diffusion prevented due to overly restrictive IP policy (often due to philosophy of a single individual controlling the corporation).
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The New Paradigm: Out of (Individual) Control. The Wisdom of the (Well Organized) Crowd.
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