Emerging technologies that could radically transform our cities

Smart City Seminar, Oulu 6. 5. 2015

Risto Linturi, futurist, executive catalyst

Radical technologies yield endless opportunities

Evaluated & ranked by Committee for the Future

• Transport & logistics

• Healthcare & analytics

• New materials as enablers

• New biological processes

• 3rd industrial revolution

• Energy production & storage

• Smart buildings & construction 100 technologies in 20 value networks assessed

Report authors: Linturi, Kuusi, Ahlqvist

Augmented reality & remote sensing remove much of the need to travel • telepresence robots 1KE-20KE

• Augmented reality 150B$ 2020 • Microsoft HoloLens (Windows 10),

Google Glass, Magic Leap, Oculus Rift, Samsung https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPMHcanq0xM, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aThCr0PsyuA

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Digital mirror changes trade!

• Mirror measures user accurately and

mimics their movement. Mirror shows you

in your new garment & accessories.

– early versions now in pioneering (shop)use • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLBPhh01yiY https://vimeo.com/116017611

Health care – why visit the doctor? https://youtu.be/_c_ccTpwgA8?t=10

• Dramatic drop in reading the genome • soon a cheap handheld device can do it

• Tricorder X-Prize – 10 finalists selected • a handheld device required that indentifies

15 separate illnesses reliably in layman hands

• USA FDA accepts home testing with iPhone accessories – i.e. retina & inner ear scans

• IBM's Dr. Watson already useful in diagnostics

Developer & Designer Day 2012 5

Small factory in every shop & kiosk • Hewlett Packard's forthcoming printer

promises accuracy of 0.02mm and printing speed of 350 million details per second – coming to market in 2016. • materias are strong, details hard or flexible, texture, friction and color

can be controlled and optionally conductivity of electricity and heat.

• Produces individual parts & things to measure • reduces logistics, storage, waste, economy of scale • increases value added, individuality,

creativity, selection, speed of delivery

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3D-printed buildings https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SObzNdyRTBs

• 10 small houses printed in China during one day, now even a mansion and 5 storey building in Shanghai.

• Indoor 3D-elements 1*2*4 meters printed as a routine.

• Printed furniture and decoration

• Finnish Fimatec soon to announce R&D (Fimatec printer in upper right corner) • Fimatec prints all layers including insulation

and iron reinforcing simultaneously – picture

• Chinese & US projects pictured on bottom line

Graphene & other novel materials replacing energy intensive metals and rare earths, creating new jobs

• Graphene & Carbon nano tubes, aerographite http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YbS-YyvCl4

Applications in optics, electronics, chemistry, mechanics

20 different "super material" characteristics found

– Dozens of times stronger than steel, transparent

– Bypasses water but not i.e. helium or alcohol

– Piezoelectric quantum dots that work i.e. touch displays, haptic surfaces, energy harvesting

– Bio-adaptive, conductor & semiconductor

– Very fast, generates & manipulates teraherz waves

– Applications in batteries, solar energy

– Applications in strengthening metals, plastic

– Aerographite, stronger than styrox, weighs 25% of air

– Billions used in patenting race

• Nanocellulose – made from breaking cellulose strings shorter – characteristics vary – stronger than kevlar, transparent, conductive

– can be used to reinforce other materials or by itself

– expected to sell for a few dollars per kilo

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Driverless cars

practical in 2020's • Potential savings (Finland)

– reduced accidents 2Billion Euros (BE)

– capital freed from cars & parking places 100BE

– cities can be built more fuctionally and traffic

organized by optimal vehicles for each stretch

– yearly savings when cars as a service 10BE

– self moving shops, robotic trucs etc.

– speeds up transformation towards electric cars

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbbIAlI-Vvc

Hyperloop testing begins soon! Funding for a 8 km test track and site for it secured

• Hyperloop uses partial vacuum to achieve 1200km/hour speed, whitepaper by Elon Musk

– estimated investment cost ½ of a motor way,

– energy positive if covered with solar panels

– Helsinki – Oulu in 30 minutes, faster than by air http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2013/10/31/company-to-turn-hyperloop-dream-into-hypercool-reality/?intcmp=trending

Drone delivery realistic! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmHwXf8JUOw

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnkMyfQ5YfY

• Legislation evolving quickly to enable various useful applications – technology is evolving very fast, applications abundant

• Multicopters used for surveillance, construction, delivery, 3D-modelling etc. • China, Germany, Switzerland, Australia etc.

experimenting with package delivery

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Solar power & indoor farming

• Solar power price continues to fall

rapidly, solar energy may become

truly cheap when available

• potential exists for cities to grow

indoors all the biomaterials their

inhabitants need

• climate change may mandate this