What Have You Done Tomorrow?H o w t o m a k e s e n s e o f a n d p r e p a r e f o r a n u n c e r t a i n f u t u r e

Volker Hirsch @vhirsch

HR Vision Amsterdam, 1 Jun 2015

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The future is unknown

BMW i8 conceptBut it’s faster today...

Sir Francis Bacon, 1561-1626

Knowledge is power.

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http://gapingvoid.com

Sarah Connor, Terminator

What now? Dystopia?

Meet your future workforce

Factory Worker

Cleaner

Policeman

Boston Dynamics Wildcat

Sniper

General Atomics, MQ-9 Reaper

Taxi DriverMercedes F015

Waiter

Pizza Delivery Guy

Musician

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_Howell

AthleteTosy, Topio 3

Extraterrestrial MinerProject “Athlete”, NASA Jet Propulsion Lab, Caltech

Baxter

IBM Watson

Automation will take the jobs it can take

http://www.cgpgrey.com/

Massive Impact on the Workplace & Employment

Forbes, Feb. 2015

RIP. It was good while it lasted...

Banker Lawyer

memory augmentation therapist plant educator nano-weapon specialist diffractive optics modeler

New Jobs for you:

Ray Kurzweil

MIT Whirlwind

Google Compute Engine

Gordon Moore

Moore’s Law

Moore’s Law in perspective

Quantum Computing

D Wave 2

Ray Kurzweil

Kurzweil TL;DR

Faster Computing -> faster innovation -> faster solutions to hard problems -> all diseases, hunger, energy, etc solved -> immortality -> bodies become obsolete, people will only be minds -> one interconnected mind across mankind

Kurzweil TL;DR

I have no idea what you are talking about

To infinity and beyond: Infinite Learning Loops

Buzz Lightyear

Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.

Arthur Schopenhauer, 1788-1860

http://blog.vanillaforums.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/change-cartoon.jpg

https://13c4.files.wordpress.com/2008/01/50-reason-notto2.jpg

http://www.torbenrick.eu/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Reactions-to-change.png

Where is the path?

What is specifically HUMAN?

Passion

Photo (c) 2015 Dan Taylor for Heisenberg Media

Mindfulness

Cirque de Soleil

Creativity

Critical Thought

Plato + Aristotle

Caveatemptor

DeductiveInference

Thank You!

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