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Talk for the CIO Exchange at Kleiner Perkins on November 5, 2008TRANSCRIPT
Watching the Alpha Geeks
Tim O’Reilly
O’Reilly Media, Inc.www.oreilly.com
CIO Strategy ExchangeNovember 5, 2008
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We’re best known as a book publisher
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What We Really Do At O'Reilly
Change the world by spreading the knowledge of innovators
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How we do it
•Find interesting technologies and people innovating from the edge
•Amplify their effectiveness by spreading the information needed for others to follow them.
•Books
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How we do it
•Find interesting technologies and people innovating from the edge
•Amplify their effectiveness by spreading the information needed for others to follow them.
•Books, Conferences
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How we do it
•Find interesting technologies and people innovating from the edge
•Amplify their effectiveness by spreading the information needed for others to follow them.
•Books, Conferences, Online
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Some Examples
• First books on Linux and Perl - 1991• First book on the internet, covered WWW when there were only 200 web sites - 1992
• Launched first commercial web site, 1993• First advocacy about web services - 1997• Organized meeting where term “open source” was adopted - 1998
• Coined term Web 2.0 to describe rules for new internet platform - 2004
• Make: celebrates the new DIY - 2006
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Watch the Alpha Geeks
Rob Flickenger and his potato chip can antenna
• New technologies first exploited by hackers, then entrepreneurs, then platform players
• Three examples– Wireless community networks
predict universal Wi-Fi– Screen scraping predicts web services and the internet as platform– “The pedal powered internet” predicts new focus on energy
"The future is here. It's just not evenly distributed yet."
--William Gibson
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Closer to home...
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“A PC on every desk and in every home”
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“The PC is just a toy.”
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In 1998, search had largely been written off as a business opportunity...
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“Organize all the world’s information”
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Hackers Like Big Challenges
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Ten Things That Will Rock Your World
Tim O’Reilly
O’Reilly Media, Inc.www.oreilly.com
CIO Strategy ExchangeNovember 5, 2008
1. “Harnessing Collective Intelligence”
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Web 2.0 is about finding meaning in user-generated data,
and turning that meaning into real-time user-facing services
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OpenCV: Computer Vision
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2. The End of the Relational Database Paradigm
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3. Re-mix Culture Goes Mainstream
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4. Disaster Relief and Social Action
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How can I make any difference?
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"A victory small enough to be organized is too small to be decisive."
--Eliot Janeway, Struggle for Survival
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Tracking Illegal Deforestation in Brazil with Google Earth
49 Source: New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/19/world/americas/19brazil.html
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4. Energy and Global Warming
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“We’re F**ked!”
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5. Government (and Business) Transparency
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7. Hacking Gets Physical
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The Sensor Revolution
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VCR Cat Feeder
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8. Open Source Hardwareand the future of manufacturing
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The Power Supply for One Laptop Per Child
Colin Bulthaup, Potenco: “We used to get mockups. Now we get new working prototypes on a weekly basis.”
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9. Instrumenting the World
We are moving out of the world in which people typing on keyboards will drive collective intelligence applications. Increasingly, applications are driven by new kinds of sensors.
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Natalie Jeremijenko’s Feral Robot Dogs
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3D beijing
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What’s Next?
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11. Body and Mind Hacking
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12. Synthetic Biology
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For More Information
• What is Web 2.0? http://www.oreillynet.com/go/web2 • http://tim.oreilly.com• http://radar.oreilly.com• http://www.makezine.com
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