Madrid - Future of Innovation 5-29-2009 Thomas Frey
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Thomas Frey
The Future of Innovation Global Trends & the New Innovation Landscape
Thomas FreySenior Futurist
DaVinci InstitutePO Box 270315Louisville, CO 80027Louisville, CO 80027(303) [email protected]
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Setting the Stage
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The Epiphany
Epiphany - A sudden insight into the essential meaning of something, a moment of revelation.
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The Epiphany
A Full Category Five Epiphany
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The Epiphany
The Life of an Idea Junkie
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The Epiphany
What will your next epiphany look like?
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Setting the Stage
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The Future of Retail
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The Future of Retail
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The Future of Retail
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The Future of Retail
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The Future of Retail
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Someone Walking By…
• Point and Click
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Someone Walking By…
• Point and Click
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Someone Walking By…
• Point and Click
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Someone Walking By…
• Point and Click
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Someone Walking By…
• Point and Click
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Any Product, Anywhere
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Any Product, Anywhere
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“When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at things, the things you look at change.”- - Max Planck (Nobel Physicist)
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System Thinking
• Greek Mathematicians– Pythagoras– Pythagoras– Archimedes
• Roman Mathematicians– ?
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System Thinking
What systems do we employ today that What systems do we employ today that are the equivalent of Roman Numerals?
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Rick Wakeman
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbdVvH_0rCs
What technologies do we employ today that are the equivalent of Roman Numerals?
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The Year is 2059
• You are standing in front of a vending front of a vending machine
• What form of payment will you put into it?
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Future Vending Machines
…will be mobile, perhaps flyingperhaps flying
…will come to you…will know what you
want
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Future Vending Machines
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Future Vending Machines
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Future Vending Machines
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The Year is 2109
What music that we listen to we listen to today, will people still be listening to 100 years from now?
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Future Music
More importantly than what we will be listening to is how we will be listening to is how we will be listening to it.
Will music still come from speakers?
Will it just appear in our heads?
Will we even have music?
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The Ultimate Music Player
….will have the ability to assess ability to assess our reaction to the music and will only serve up music that we react positively to.
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Ultimate Drink Dispenser
….will have the ability to assess what kind of to assess what kind of liquids our body needs and will only serve up a liquid that we react positively to.
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Perfect Water
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Global Trend #1
The Age of Hyper-Individuality
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Age of Hyper-Individuality
• We now believe there is a there is a product to solve every problem, need, or desire
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Age of Hyper-Individuality
• Categories and groupings are no groupings are no longer sufficient in defining the divergent characteristics of people
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Age of Hyper-Individuality
• With the explosion of data from the of data from the Internet, cell phones, and credit cards, the people who can make sense of it all are sense of it all are redefining our world
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Age of Hyper-Individuality
• Every personality trait that can be sorted mathematically defines the basis for a new marketmathematically defines the basis for a new market
The Numerati by Steve Baker
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Global Trend #2
Atoms Vs. Electrons
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Atoms Vs. Electrons
• There is a war being waged between “atoms” waged between “atoms” and “electrons”
• Digital and virtual is moving exponentially faster than anything that requires manipulating physical manipulating physical materials
• The disruptors are armed with electrons
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Atoms Vs. Electrons
Physical Products• Designers and
Digital Products• Designers and • Designers and
engineers • Shipping• Receiving• Inventory
• Designers and programmers
• Marketing
• Planning• Warehouse• Marketing• Sales
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Global Trend #3
The Evolution of Books
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The Evolution of Books
In what year will the last printed book be published?
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The Evolution of Books
Gutenberg Press
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The Evolution of Books
Thorp Courier Printing Press - 1893
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The Evolution of Books
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The Evolution of Books
Espresso Book Machine™
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The Evolution of Books
Amazon’s Kindle
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The Evolution of Books
Microvision’s tiny Pico Projector
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The Evolution of Books
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The Evolution of Books
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Global Trend #4
Education - The Great Transformation
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Organically Generated Courses
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• Organically Generated Courses
• Global Distribution System
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Education - The Great Transformation
• Transition from teaching to learningto learning
• Teaching requires experts
• As information expands exponentially, we lose our ability to train new our ability to train new experts fast enough
• Teachers become a chokepoint
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Exponential Growth of Information
MySpace, Wikipedia, YouTube
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Exponential Growth of Information
MySpace, Wikipedia, YouTube, Courses
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Courseware Vacuum
• Information is growing exponentially• Courseware has not kept pace• Courseware has not kept pace
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Courseware Vacuum
• Open Education Movement– MIT OpenCourseWare – 1,400 courses– MIT OpenCourseWare – 1,400 courses– The OpenCourseWare Consortium - 1,800
potential courses at 12 universities – Connexions - 3,768 modules and 199
courses – Wikiversity - a division of Wikipedia – Moodle - 820,000 courses. – Curriki.org - 450 courses
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What is the Primary Inflection Point for Change?
Specially architected rapid courseware builder
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Future Courseware Architecture
Creation of an international standard learning unit -60 Minute (Approx) Learning Experience60 Minute (Approx) Learning Experience
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Future Courseware Architecture
Modality Agnostic, Language Agnostic– Classroom units, experience units, online units– Courseware from everywhere - managed online
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Future Courseware Architecture
Smart Profiler & Recommendation Engine– What is this person most interested in?– What courses should they take next?
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Global Trend #5
Search Engines for the Physical World
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Search Trends
• Search Technology will become increasingly become increasingly more complicated
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Search Attributes
• Text to text• Text to image• Text to image• Text to audio• Text to video• No image to image• No image to video• No image to video• Some audio to audio• No video to video
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Future Search Attributes
• Smell• Taste• Taste• Texture• Reflectivity• Harmonic vibration• Specific gravity
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Improving Our Vision
• Searching for my glassesglasses
• Searching in the digital world vs. searching in the physical world
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RFID Technology
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Smart Goggles
Japan’s Yasuo Kuniyoshi’s memory recall invention
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Smart Goggles
• By overlaying the video stream with biometric data, we can determine what things are data, we can determine what things are important to that individual and anticipate their value judgments in the future
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Global Trend #6
The Diminishing Value of Proximity
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In the Past…
• …collective intelligence was achieved by putting like-minded people in the same roomlike-minded people in the same room
• …through proximity
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The Value of Proximity
• We choose where we live, work, and we live, work, and conduct business based on proximity of key assets
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The Value of ProximityMost Critical Business Assets
1. Customers1. Customers2. Talent3. Vendors4. Suppliers5. Business Networks6. Favorable Laws6. Favorable Laws7. Airport8. Business Services
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Telepresence Room
Today we have other ways to compensatefor physical proximity
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Human Connectedness
• Communities in the future will be designed future will be designed around new ways for people to meet people.
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Human Connectedness
• Future communities will be judged by their be judged by their vibrancy, their interconnectedness, the fluid structures for causing positive human collisions
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Global Trend #6
The Empire of One
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Empire of One
One person business with far reaching influence
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Empire of One
Typical Scenario: • Products manufactured • Products manufactured
in China or India• Sent to a distribution
center in the US or Canada
• Sold to customers in • Sold to customers in the UK or Brazil
• All controlled by one person
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Empire of One
Outsource Everything• Manufacturing• Manufacturing• Operations• Marketing• Distribution• Bookkeeping• Bookkeeping• Legal
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Empire of One
• Eliminate HR problems• Freedom to travel• Freedom to travel• Control your own
destiny
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Empire of One
• Examples– SuperStructs– SuperStructs– Cuff Daddy– Monkey-Toes– Licorice International
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Global Trend #7
Emerging Business Colonies
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Business Colonies
• The cost of employment will employment will continue to rise
• We are putting more and more power into the hands of the individualindividual
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Business Colonies
• Business projects will form and disappear form and disappear organically
• Groupings of “project people” working together as projects form, complete, and form, complete, and disappear
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Business Colonies
• Business colonies will form around diverse form around diverse industries - photonics, nanotech, biotech, consumer products, IT niches and many moremore
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Business Colonies
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Global Trend #9
Transition from a Product-Based Economy to an Experience-Based Economyto an Experience-Based Economy
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Experience Based Economy
• Reputations are based on our based on our experiences, not what we own
• Experiences are now valued more than the product itselfproduct itself
Extreme Ironing
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The Ultimate Experience?
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The Ultimate Experience?
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The Ultimate Experience?
Hangboarding
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The Ultimate Experience?
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The Ultimate Experience?
The Sultan’s Elephant
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The Ultimate Experience?Dreamhack in Sweden 2006
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Global Trend #10
Emerging New Power Tool:Prize CompetitionsPrize Competitions
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1850 - Popularity of Billiards
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Michael Phelan
The Father of American Billiards
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1859
Michael Phelan's Billiard Saloon
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Phelan & Collender
One of America’s largest billiard companies
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Phelan and Collander
• Ivory billiard balls
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1863
100,000 elephants per year were being killed to meet the growing demand for billiard balls
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1863
They could only get eight billiard balls from a single elephant
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The Phelan and Collander Prize
• 1863 – A prize of $10,000 to for the $10,000 to for the first person who could devise an alternative to ivory for billiard balls
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1869 - John Wesley Hyatt
• Inventor of Celluloid• Won the $10,000 prize• Won the $10,000 prize• Later founded the Albany
Billiard Ball Company
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Albany Billiard Ball Company
Workers turning rough turning rough billiard balls in lathes
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Many Happy Elephants
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The Power of the Prize
• Many times in the past prizes have been used to alter the course of historyused to alter the course of history
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1919: Orteig Prize
1927 - $25,000 won by Charles Lindbergh
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1959: Kremer Prize
1979 - $95,000 prize won by Paul MacCready for the Gossamer Albatros
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1980: Fredkin Prize
1997 - $100,000 prize (later raised to $1.1 million) IBM vs. Garry Kasparov - won by IBM’s Deep Blue
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1996 – Ansari X-Prize
2004 - $10 million prize won by Paul Allen and Burt Rutan
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2002 DARPA Grand Challenge
2005 – The first $2 million prize won by Stanford University’s Stanley Team
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The Most Famous Prize
• The most famous prizes today are the prizes today are the Nobel Prizes
• They are backward-looking
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Trained to Compete
• People are very good at competing. good at competing. But in most fields, we have been running a race without a finish line.
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Creating New Challenges
• So how do we build new challenges?new challenges?
• How do we use this process to solve some of the world’s biggest problems?
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Tapping into the Hive Mind
• Solving some of the world’s biggest problems will biggest problems will require us to find a way to tap into the collective intelligence of large groups of people
• Collective Consciousness • Collective Consciousness • Universal Mind• Group Mind
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What if…
…we could solve some of the world’s biggest problems with prize competitions?biggest problems with prize competitions?
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What if……we created a competition for human-safe mosquitoes?mosquitoes?
…that feed off of other mosquitoes!
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What if……we created a competition for a new way to get cheap, clean drinking water from clean drinking water from the ocean
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What if…
…we created a competition for competition for Maglev Wind Turbines that could power an entire city for the next 500 years?next 500 years?
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What if…
…we created a competition for controlling the force of hurricanes?the force of hurricanes?
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What if…
…we created a competition for finding cures to cancer, diabetes, and heart disease?to cancer, diabetes, and heart disease?
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What if…
…we created a competition for competition for reinventing our financial systems?
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What if……we could solve some of the world’s worst conflicts with a worst conflicts with a prize competitions?
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Prize Competitions
1. Draw attention to specific problems2. Focus efforts on a single goal2. Focus efforts on a single goal3. Circumvent political lobbies and political will4. Transition the accomplishments from
academia to the entrepreneurs
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Android Phone Competition
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Android Phone Competition
• $10M in prize money to fund new money to fund new applications for the Google Android Phone
• Over 1,700 applications applications available when product was introduced
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Using Prizes as a Power Tool for Innovation
1. Sponsoring prizes as a social cause• Shows you care about your customers• Ties your brand with important causes
2. Creating prizes that engage your customers in the product development process
• Shows respect for their ideas• Shows respect for their ideas• Enters the mind through a different doorway• Occupy far greater mindshare
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Thomas Edison“Opportunity is missed by most missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” --Thomas Edison
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EpiphaniesHow do we create them?
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Epiphanies
How do we manage them?
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Epiphanies
How do we capitalize on them?
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My Wish is for you…
..…is to leave here with great epiphaniesEpiphanieEpiphanieEpiphanieEpiphanieCategory Five Epiphanies
Full blown…
mass spectrographic
EpiphanieEpiphanieEpiphanieEpiphaniessss
Epiphaniesmass spectrographicisotopicdouble quad-turbo
full blown
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Thomas Frey
The Future of Innovation Global Trends & the New Innovation Landscape
Thomas FreySenior Futurist
DaVinci InstitutePO Box 270315Louisville, CO 80027Louisville, CO 80027(303) [email protected]
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