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INFO 200

Cutting Edge and Emerging

Technologies

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Technology

• Reached it’s limit?

• From now on, just more of the

same?

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No!

no - no - no - no

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Get ready for whole new waves!

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Goals for this Topic

• To consider “change” in terms of technology and

society.

• To gain an awareness of cutting edge and

emerging technologies.

• To be able to conduct a SWOT analysis in

relation to technologies.

• To dream.

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The Question

How can we better meet

the information needs of

people -

whenever, wherever and

in whatever form?

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THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY,

JULY 1945

VANNEVAR BUSH

“As We May Think.”

1945

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Problem

• Plenty of research information.

• Bogged down by the quantity.

• The problem is not the publishing – it’s the

finding and using.

• “A record, if it is to be useful to science,

must be continuously extended, it must be

stored, and above all it must be

consulted.”

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Solution

• Miniaturization – Compression

• Search – Selection

• The human mind is not an index! It

operates by associations.

• Selection by association!

• A Web.

• Memex!!

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Memex

“A sort of mechanized private file and library.

“A memex is a device in which an individual stores

all his books, records, and communications, and

which is mechanized so that it may be consulted

with exceeding speed and flexibility. It is an

enlarged intimate supplement to his memory.

“It consists of a desk, and while it can presumably

be operated from a distance, it is primarily the

piece of furniture at which he works….

Key = associative indexing.

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We are fulfilling Bush’s vision…

60 years ago…to today

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Marshall McLuhan

1911 - 1980

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http://marshallmcluhanspeaks.com/

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McLuhan

• Clips and quotes from the visionary

thinker. Youtube video.

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7G

vQdDQv8g

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Main Concepts

• THE MEDIUM IS THE MESSAGE

• THE MEDIUM IS THE MASSAGE

• GLOBAL VILLAGE

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Technologies

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http://padlet.com/wall/u3z1zyypci

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Exercise

Exercise:

• Individually – brainstorm/identify at least one

technology in each category:

– LAGGING

– MAINSTREAM

– CUTTING EDGE

– BLEEDING EDGE

– OVER THE EDGE

• Triads:

– SHARE IDEAS

– ANALYZE SWOT

– SELECT & POST ON WALL

– CLUSTER

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SWOT

Strengths Weaknesses

Opportunities Threats

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http://padlet.com/wall/u3z1zyypci

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Example

• Lagging - Fax machines

• Mainstream - Smartphones

• Cutting Edge - Kinect interface

• Bleeding Edge – Google glasses

• Over the Edge - 3D holographic display

Strengths Weaknesses

Opportunities Threats

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types of technologies

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Personal Publishing

• Blogs

• Twitter

• Wikis

• Flickr

• YouTube

• Ustream

• Twitter

Strengths Weaknesses

Opportunities Threats

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Social Networking

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Social Networking

Strengths Weaknesses

Opportunities Threats

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Virtual Worlds

Strengths Weaknesses

Opportunities Threats

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Games and Gaming

Strengths Weaknesses

Opportunities Threats

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General Implications

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“Looking at the

world through

information-

colored glasses.”

It’s All About Information!

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• Anyone

• Anywhere

• Anytime

• Any Form

• Anyone

• Anywhere

• Anytime

• Any Form

A Parallel Information Universe

Information

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Bleeding & Over the Edge Technologies

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Back to Nature for Next Technology Revolution?

• Forty years ago, a computer had 2,000 transistors.

Today's CPUs have one billion and tomorrow's units will

have several billion tiny components.

• But they can't be manufactured with today's technology.

So where do we turn?

• Imagine using DNA as a template to "grow" electronic

devices, or custom designing molecules to build

transistor

Babak Parviz, UW Associate Professor and

Associate Director of the UW Micro-scale Life

Sciences Center

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Computers today are one

million times more powerful

than those 20 years ago.

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- 2013 -

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• 1981 – the personal computer

• 1985 – the Internet

• 1993 – the Web

• 1999 – Wireless

• 1999 – Google

• 2001 – iPod

• 2004 – Facebook

• 2005 – YouTube

• 2006 – Twitter

• 2007 – iPhone

• 2008 – Cloud Computing

• 2010 – iPad

• 2011 – Kinect

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1993 – 2013 Born ~20 years ago -- Have

never known a world without the World

Wide Web!

The Google Generation

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7375703.st

m

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In 20 years computers will be

one million times more

powerful than today!

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- 2033 -

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• 2013 – Google glasses

• 2015 – Digital paper

• 2019 – SMARTS (AI Teacher)

• 2021 – Web of Things

• 2026 – Brain control interface

• 2028 – Smartcomm nano-implants

• 2030 – GMS UIE2 (ubiquitous intelligent environment)

• 2031 – Universal Translator

• 2033 - HoloDisney

In development -

• CI (collective intelligence) class of medications

• Drone-enabled space travel

• ???

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2013 - 2033

Born ~20 years ago -- Have never known a

world without brain-controlled, intelligent

environments…and more!

The ??? Generation

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are you ready?