A facilitated workshop for the Olathe Chamber of Commerce HR roundtable

1. Social Media
And the technology burden

2. Introduction
• About Me
– 20+ Years in technology
– Multi-Patented inventor
– Transhumanist (H+)
– Adult learning expert
• B2i Ventures
– Kansas City+London+Miami
– Work+Life+Play
– Management Consulting
– Technology strategy
– Healthcare & Finance Commercialization
– Gamification (Human performance improvement)
Play for the future

3. What is Social? The tipping point
• Broad term
• marketing
• Systems design
• Social theory
• Game mechanics
• Technology
• Communication
• Crowds
• participatory
• Neccessary
pic: map of the Internet 2012

4. SIMILIA SIMILIBUS
CURANTUR
Building the network

5. ‘likes are cured by likes’
Disease is:
– Viral
– Intelligent
– Networked
– Localized
– Predictable
Information is:
– Viral
– Intelligent
– Networked
– Global
– Predictable
’
pic: Non-cell-autonomous proteins that form the 'cancer, immunological disease, hematological disease' network.
Technology; properly deployed – is the next
line of defense in the war of disease.

6. How disparate
information saves
lives
• Social sharing
is now a
global pursuit
• Data is
cheaper to
store
• Smart is
getting smarter
• Citizen
journalism is
progressive

7. Predictive Intelligence: The social
genome
• Primitive systems of predictive intelligence
surround us
– Lottery
– Sports
– Gambling
– Future crime
• Advance systems will need to learn ‘critical
thinking’ skills to eliminate false positive
signals corrupting the equation
• Cold tech, qbit (quantum) and the ‘internet of

8. Doug Richards
doug@b2iventures.com
http://b2iventures.com
@b2Iventures