The Future of the Internet: the key trends (Futurist Speaker Gerd Leonhard)

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The Future of the Internet: Big Data, Big Brother, Big Tech, Big Telco and Big Gov…?

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This is an edited version of a presentation I gave at ITUWorld 2013 in Bangkok, Nov 21, 2013, see more details at http://www.futuristgerd.com/2013/11/21/here-is-the-pdf-with-my-slides-from-the-ituworld-event-in-bkk-today/ Topics: US domination of the Internet and cloud computing, big data futures, privacy failure and the global digital rights bill, the importance of trust, key issues for cloud computing, and much more. Check www.gerdtube.com for a video version (should be available soon)

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The Future of the Internet: Big Data, Big Brother, Big Tech,

Big Telco and Big Gov…?

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Life is becoming FASTER than fiction…

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EverythingConnected Intelligent Real-time

Personalized Cross-Platform

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Exponential technological progress: more speed invariably means more risk

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The Internet as we knew it is

over.

Privacy & Security Failure

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The power of technology now exceeds the scope of our ETHICS

“In its self-contained way, Google Glass joins the 21st-century notion that everyone is a filmmaker with the more conventionally accepted truth that everyone is an audience” Tribecafilm.com Sept 2013

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Zero privacy + flawed security + abusive marketing will translate into slower pace of technology adoption

which means missed and reduced opportunities

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Trust

Technology

EthicsStandards

@gleonhard

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Artificial Intelligence is becoming the new normal

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"We will be surrounded by computational power. So for average people, for average users and consumers, you will be living in a world where you are essentially living in a computer, where you are surrounded by intelligence”

Brian David Johnson (Intel Futurist reuters.com Oct 27 2013)

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Connected Intelligent Real-Time Everything

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Mobile devices are already our external brains

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http://www.businessinsider.com.au/mac-funamizus-future-of-internet-search-2013-11The Future of ‘Search’

via BusinessInsider.com

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Interface Revolutions: unprecedented access to information

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Human-Machine Evolutions: Type.Speak.Gesture.Blink.Think

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3D Printing: the Napsterization of Manufacturing?

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E-M-P-O-W-E-R-M-E-N-T

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Connectivity is like Oxygen now… *but

http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/bulletin/by-2017-your-smartphone-will-be-smarter-than-you/

@gleonhard

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E-N-S-L-A-V-E-M-E-N-T ?

@gleonhard

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Huge economic potential - but we must also consider unintended consequences

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Vast societal & behavioral changes driven by exponential technological advancements

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“The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence, itself, but to act with yesterday’s logic”

*Peter Drucker

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Acting based on yesterday’s logic ... full speed off the cliff

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#telemedia: a much larger fishbowl

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Example: the Future of Media is User-Control. Period.

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Telcos, ISPs and Mobile Operators: Transient Advantages will replace Sustainable Competitive Advantages

http://hbr.org/2013/06/transient-advantage

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Our future: From linear to exponential… and lateral

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Why does it take ‘a Google’ to do stuff like this?Project Loon: Google Launches Balloons Around The World To Give Internet Connectivity To All: Google is now working on an initiative that will provide internet connectivity to locations that have limited or no access. The Internet giant has started releasing 30 hi-tech balloons that will provide Wi-Fi internet connectivity to people as they travel. They have been designed to travel around the world three times. The balloons start their journey from from New Zealand's South Island under the project named Project Loon.

http://www.gizbot.com/online/project-loon-google-launches-wi-fi-balloons-around-the-world-news-014539.html

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The most serious competition will come from outsiders

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Cloud Computing and Search: Innovation Failure in RoW (i.e. non-US?)

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But can the Future of the Internet continue to be defined, controlled and engineered by the U.S. ?

Systematic Abuse & Surveillance Default

Information Superiority as the declared objective

Trust destruction at a very serious level

Flawed policy initiatives Basic societal rights and principles questioned

All U.S. co’s are implicated & already losing business

@gleonhard

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Now, everyone is in the Data Business, one way or the other: Intelligence, Permission, Trust, ControlNSA / PRSIM has destroyed trust in secure computing

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Image via Popsci.com

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#datawars

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‘Spynternet’ ‘Splinternet’

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“Data Greed”

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So will ‘Big Data’ companies i.e. telecoms, search engines, cloud providers, internet platforms become like ‘Big Oil’?

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Who will be the Exxon-Mobil of Data?

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A lot is at stake…

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The lack of personal privacy also puts a boot on the global switch to digital money

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1. The Internet runs on Data - and we will see even faster exponential growth i.e. velocity, variety, volume, virality, value

2. Data is indeed becoming the new Oil, and #datawars are here 3. Oil equals Power (as some of us know all too well) 4. Pollution is the result of Abuse, Surveillance and Trust Failures 5. Technology at first favours the nimble and decentralised - but

then the powerful, and massively so: balances must be struck 6. The resulting (digital) Inequality, the dramatically increasing

abuse of personal data and the rise of ‘Feudal Computing’ will not be resolved by market dynamics (see the music industry)

* my special thanks to Bruce Schneier for the inspiration

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Can we have privacy and be connected?

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?? WHAT FUELS SURVEILLANCE

ALSO FUELS ADVERTISING ??

Source Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/tjblackwell/5328104477/

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Power of Technology Personal Liberty & PrivacyIs this a Faustian Bargain?

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People become ‘instrumented’…?The Data Made Me Do It - MIT Technology Review

http://m.technologyreview.com/news/514346/the-data-made-me-do-it/

“People have become

instrumented to collect and transmit

personal data...” Andreas Weigend

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Should we really try to ‘end anonymity’?

@gleonhard

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A CULTURALLY DIFFERENTIATED YET GLOBALLY STANDARDISED BALANCE OF SECURITY

AND PRIVACY WILL BE ABSOLUTELY CRUCIAL

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Yes, we can generate, access, refine, distribute and use personal data…

…but it will need to be subject to new social contracts, ethics, rules, laws

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We urgently need to co-create a

comprehensive, healthy, public,

global, transparent, verifiable

Won’t- be-evil-

Ecosystem

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Time for a global ‘Digital Bill of Rights’…

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Do: Observe. Listen. Connect. Respect. Engage. Prosper .

Don’t: Abuse. Re-sell. Surveil. Hyper-market. Gain Superiority.

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‘Digital Sovereignty’ will become more important - but Interdependence is our inevitable future

Image via Tiffany Shlain: Connected the Movie

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… and let’s not try and solve social, cultural and political challenges with technology, once again:)

Thanks to Cory Doctorow for his inspiration

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Trust

Technology

EthicsStandards

@gleonhard

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Industrial & Mechanical ☯ Digital & Exponential Linear Business Model ☯ Lateral Business Model

Silos and long-term competitive advantages ☯ Arenas and transient advantages (Rita McGrath)

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1. We are entering an age of unprecedented opportunities: from linear to lateral thinking - not industries but arenas!

2. Yet, ‘amazing technology’ must be balanced with ethics & standards: unintended consequences will pose big challenges

3. Privacy and trust failure is the biggest hurdle to progress in every segment of ICT: M2M, IoT / IoE, Big Data, Cloud Computing, AI…

4. Interdependence is inevitable, yet sovereignty remains important 5. The Internet needs to governed by an international body representing

all interests, sectors and agenda 6. The ‘Big Data’ boom should not yield another ‘big oil’ disaster

The Future of the Internet: Summary

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Leaders must go beyond the obvious