The Evolving Data Sphere

H+ Summit @ Harvard12-13 June, 2010

David Orban

What Will Keep You Human?

David OrbanChairman, Humanity+

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What

William GibsonThe future is already here. It is just not evenly distributed yet

Fred Armitage

Questions

Answers

Ignorance

Kevin

Kel

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k.or

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Aswers beget questions

What Do We Know?

Gaspa

What’s On Your Radar

Banksy / Robbiedangerous

Spime = SPace + tIME

Bruce Sterling

Evolving Devices

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IPv4

IPv6

Atoms

≈ 109

≈ 1038

≈ 1080

A Granular World

Drawing Fine Lines

Wonderlane

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Necessary Autonomy

Platform Orders of magnitude

PCs ≈ 108

Mobiles ~ Humans ≈ 109

Spimes > 1012

Around Us Already

Ryan Harvey

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Network Evolution

Generation Isotropy Access

Web data knowledge

Web 2.0 applications social

Spimes sensors world

Redundancy Needed

NASA JPL

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Changing Dialog

Generation Bandwidth M2M Index

Industrial apps Kb/s 1%

Realtime Web Mb/s 10%

Spime Networks Gb/s 99%+

M2M index: M2M/M2H, communications among machine in proportion to those with humans

Decision making

µµ

5

Not blind anymore

Object # sensors

Mobile phone 10

Car 50-100

Awareness

Volvo

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Who

Bruce SterlingForget trying to pass for normal

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Why

rosetechven.com

David RoseIntegrity is the most important value

99%

1% 2%

98%

The Anthropocene

10.000 BC Today

terrestrialvertebratesin the wild

humanspetscattle

badjonni

Unsustainable

Sense The World

bazusa

Nite Owl

Sensing The Technium

Adapt

aussiegirl

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Examples

claren44

Larry SmarrFailure of imagination is a fundamental human defect

Current

• Spreading the Idea. Involve people.

First Quarter Action Plan

Future

Transportation

A.M. Kuchling

4G Communication

rmforall

Energy

joyseyshowaa

Quantified Self

I Don’t Know Maybe

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When

Bre PettisThings are changing faster than we can die

Randy Stewart

A process, not an event

1 < IoT< 25

Foxtongue

Advanced Collaboration

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Whatshould happen

Alex LightmanIn the future many groups will rule the world for 15 minutes

David Orban

Earth

Aussiegirl

Strange Place And Time

aussiegirl

Planetary Co-evolution

will_hybrid

Free To Be Human

me’nthedogs

Humanity+

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