risto linturi in the oulu smart city seminar on wed 6th may, 2015
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Emerging technologies that could radically transform our cities
Smart City Seminar, Oulu 6. 5. 2015
Risto Linturi, futurist, executive catalyst
Radical technologies yield endless opportunities
Evaluated & ranked by Committee for the Future
• Transport & logistics
• Healthcare & analytics
• New materials as enablers
• New biological processes
• 3rd industrial revolution
• Energy production & storage
• Smart buildings & construction 100 technologies in 20 value networks assessed
Report authors: Linturi, Kuusi, Ahlqvist
Augmented reality & remote sensing remove much of the need to travel • telepresence robots 1KE-20KE
• Augmented reality 150B$ 2020 • Microsoft HoloLens (Windows 10),
Google Glass, Magic Leap, Oculus Rift, Samsung https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPMHcanq0xM, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aThCr0PsyuA
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Digital mirror changes trade!
• Mirror measures user accurately and
mimics their movement. Mirror shows you
in your new garment & accessories.
– early versions now in pioneering (shop)use • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLBPhh01yiY https://vimeo.com/116017611
Health care – why visit the doctor? https://youtu.be/_c_ccTpwgA8?t=10
• Dramatic drop in reading the genome • soon a cheap handheld device can do it
• Tricorder X-Prize – 10 finalists selected • a handheld device required that indentifies
15 separate illnesses reliably in layman hands
• USA FDA accepts home testing with iPhone accessories – i.e. retina & inner ear scans
• IBM's Dr. Watson already useful in diagnostics
Developer & Designer Day 2012 5
Small factory in every shop & kiosk • Hewlett Packard's forthcoming printer
promises accuracy of 0.02mm and printing speed of 350 million details per second – coming to market in 2016. • materias are strong, details hard or flexible, texture, friction and color
can be controlled and optionally conductivity of electricity and heat.
• Produces individual parts & things to measure • reduces logistics, storage, waste, economy of scale • increases value added, individuality,
creativity, selection, speed of delivery
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3D-printed buildings https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SObzNdyRTBs
• 10 small houses printed in China during one day, now even a mansion and 5 storey building in Shanghai.
• Indoor 3D-elements 1*2*4 meters printed as a routine.
• Printed furniture and decoration
• Finnish Fimatec soon to announce R&D (Fimatec printer in upper right corner) • Fimatec prints all layers including insulation
and iron reinforcing simultaneously – picture
• Chinese & US projects pictured on bottom line
Graphene & other novel materials replacing energy intensive metals and rare earths, creating new jobs
• Graphene & Carbon nano tubes, aerographite http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YbS-YyvCl4
Applications in optics, electronics, chemistry, mechanics
20 different "super material" characteristics found
– Dozens of times stronger than steel, transparent
– Bypasses water but not i.e. helium or alcohol
– Piezoelectric quantum dots that work i.e. touch displays, haptic surfaces, energy harvesting
– Bio-adaptive, conductor & semiconductor
– Very fast, generates & manipulates teraherz waves
– Applications in batteries, solar energy
– Applications in strengthening metals, plastic
– Aerographite, stronger than styrox, weighs 25% of air
– Billions used in patenting race
• Nanocellulose – made from breaking cellulose strings shorter – characteristics vary – stronger than kevlar, transparent, conductive
– can be used to reinforce other materials or by itself
– expected to sell for a few dollars per kilo
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Driverless cars
practical in 2020's • Potential savings (Finland)
– reduced accidents 2Billion Euros (BE)
– capital freed from cars & parking places 100BE
– cities can be built more fuctionally and traffic
organized by optimal vehicles for each stretch
– yearly savings when cars as a service 10BE
– self moving shops, robotic trucs etc.
– speeds up transformation towards electric cars
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbbIAlI-Vvc
Hyperloop testing begins soon! Funding for a 8 km test track and site for it secured
• Hyperloop uses partial vacuum to achieve 1200km/hour speed, whitepaper by Elon Musk
– estimated investment cost ½ of a motor way,
– energy positive if covered with solar panels
– Helsinki – Oulu in 30 minutes, faster than by air http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2013/10/31/company-to-turn-hyperloop-dream-into-hypercool-reality/?intcmp=trending
Drone delivery realistic! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmHwXf8JUOw
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnkMyfQ5YfY
• Legislation evolving quickly to enable various useful applications – technology is evolving very fast, applications abundant
• Multicopters used for surveillance, construction, delivery, 3D-modelling etc. • China, Germany, Switzerland, Australia etc.
experimenting with package delivery
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