getting ready for 2020 (at the copenhagen institute for interaction design)

Horizon Projects Workshop

Getting Ready for 2020

Tom Klinkowstein Getting Ready for 2020

Horizon Projects Workshop “We drive into the future looking through the rear-view mirror.” Marshal McLuhan



1) Trans-National Manners 2) Slime Mold Careers 3) Becoming Caring Cyborgs

Getting Ready for 2020 Tom Klinkowstein

Horizon Projects Workshop Tom Klinkowstein Getting Ready for 2020

Trans-National Manners

Horizon Projects Workshop Tom Klinkowstein

Ich und Du (I and Thou) -Goal of human to human contact is a complete and deeply respectful encounter. Martin Buber



(Backgrounders) Understand Legacies


(Intimate Bios) Personal Methodologies Rhythms Quirks


I -Thou is Dialogical -Participating as fully as possible in the other via a considered dialog. Martin Buber



Transparency / Candor (“ask me anything”)–to uncover normally unexpressed needs and desires.



Buber / Aristotle -Fulfilled Difference: from fragments an adaptable whole.



Slime Mold Professionals


Deborah Alden -Own non-profit -Teaching -Consults to established leader -Brooklyn Design Accelerator



Our intuition says that change is linear, but change in our technological extensions is exponential...leading to misjudgements about the pace of change.


Becoming Caring Cyborgs


“With 30 linear steps, you get to 30; with 30 steps exponentially, you get to one billion… In 15 years, a computer as powerful as today’s smartphones will be the size of a blood cell.” Ray Kurzweil



Tom Klinkowstein

kurzweilai.net


Capabilities change slowly at first, then, all all at once.


Tom Klinkowstein

2030 2020 Now


Horizon Projects Workshop NASA Evolvable Software -Darwinian software that evolves itself. -Algorithms created are incomprehensible to humans–but they work.



Wolfram Alpha Computational Knowledge Engine: Calculates and Interprets

apply dog vision to image of lizard


Algorithm generates circa 1M designs from which the designer / director Iterates.



“…cyborg represents the relationship between bodies and media…” Jessica Santone University of Houston



“...the pleasures in the confusion of boundaries.” Cyborg Manifesto Donna Harraway University of California



From speaking, to listening to caring.



2011: IBM’s Watson wins “Jeopardy”, a game show that requires confidence estimates.


Horizon Projects Workshop 2015: Physicians + Watson: Promise of Hyper-Personalized Care and Empathy


Horizon Projects Workshop Tom Klinkowstein Getting Ready for 2020 A Tribe for Caring


(Summary) Matters Less: -Casual media with trivial intentions. -Careers with fixed titles and attributes. -Us against the machines.



(Summary) Matters More: -Adhoc micro-ethea (manners). -I and Thou professionalism. -Hybrid roles and careers (platforms). -Exponental-thinking.



Thank you.

getting ready for 2020 (at the copenhagen institute for interaction design)

Design

ray kurzweil tom klinkowstein

martin buber

pace of change

linear steps

slime mold careers

human contact

goal of human

nonprofit teaching