Imagining the Future - When the Future is already Now

Andy Piper @andypiper#NineWorlds @FutureTechTrack

Welcome to the Future

Hoverboards, flying cars, self-tying shoelaces 1989 (showing 2015)

Predicting the future is hardmore visions from the past

1987 - Star Trek TNG “PADD”

iPad

2010

Apocalypse then 1991 (predicting 1997)

“In three years, Cyberdyne will become the largest supplier of military computer systems. All stealth bombers are upgraded with

Cyberdyne computers, becoming fully unmanned. Afterwards, they fly with a perfect operational record.

The Skynet Funding Bill is passed. The system goes online August 4th, 1997. Human decisions are removed from strategic

defense. Skynet begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, August 29th.

In a panic, they try to pull the plug.”

Meanwhile, in 2015

We’re on a road to… somewhere? Gartner Hype Cycle, Aug 2014

• virtual reality

• 3D printing

• nano / biotech

• AI / Deep Learning

• wearables / embeddables

• autonomous transport

Virtual Reality

“Lawnmower Man era” 1992-2000

Second Life / online late 2000s

Oculus and beyond the future is now (again)

3D printing

Scan, copy, repeat…

Reprap

Food is just the start of more

nano/biotech

From images… 1990

… to “movies”… 2014

… to transistors! 2015

wearables / embeddables

Transforming health

Monitoring and detection

AI / Deep Learning

autonomous transport

Elon Musk

Final thoughts

Making the future real

2011: Nike release “Air Mag” shoes LEGO version by

Alex Jones / “Orion Pax”

Hover boards

… nearly cracked it!

argh OK… so they have cracked it

– Sarah Connor

“August 29, 1997, came and went. Nothing much happened. Michael Jackson turned 40. There was no Judgment Day.

People went to work as they always do. Laughed, complained, watched TV, made love.

I wanted to run through the street yelling to grab them all and say, "Every day from this day on is a gift. Use it well."”

• Google/MIT algorithm separating reflections from photos

• Braille Smartwatch

• “Star Trek” SCiO Sprectrometer scanner

• Graphene!

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Image credits

• Cities of the Future https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Depiction_of_a_futuristic_city.jpg

• Gartner hype cycle http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/2819918

• Oculus https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Oculus_Rift_development_kit_2.jpg

• LEGO Nike Mag http://www.flickr.com/photos/orion_pax/6158500167/in/photostream/

• Skynet comic http://xkcd.com/1046/

• Others author’s own, or royalty-free and CC-licensed works from sxu.hu and Wikimedia Commons

• see also http://www.zenka.org/history-of-virtual-reality-and-augmented-reality-timeline/