My keynote presentation for the London Futurists Meetup group on 2012-05-26. The theme of the talk was to explain my "Sci-Fi Scaffolding" methodology.

1. London Futurists
Michell Zappa
mz@envisioningtech.com

7. GPS
GPS GPS

8. GPS
GPS
GPS GPS

9. 3 days of content
uploaded every minute.

10. 1. TECHNOLOGICAL IMPERATIVES
Inherence Efficiency Complexity Inevitability

11. INHERENCE
Technology wants to be part of us.

14. Anything useful that
“ we make is technology.
— Kevin Kelly
— Founding executive editor, WIRED Magazine

15. EFFICIENCY
Technology wants to be faster.

16. COST SPEED

17. 2012
2008
CPU × FSB RAM SSD Mbps

18. 0
5
10
15
20
25
30
Electricity
Telephone
Radio
Television
Computer
Internet
Mobile phone
Smartphone
Tablet
TIME
ADOPTION

19. COMPLEXITY
Technology creates itself out of itself.

22. Li-Pol Multi- Kernel EDGE
media
NiMH File- OS Cloud GPRS
system sync
Li-Ion App Social LTE GSM
store network
Video Photo TCP IPS Touch-
camera camera screen
Internet MMS SIM LCD HSDPA
Email SMS TFT- Multi-
XMPP LCD touch
GPS Compass LED Wi-Fi Key-
board
Trian- A-GPS Blue- USB NFC
gulation tooth

23. system
GSM
NiMH OS Kernel
App GPRS
store
Multi- Social
media network EDGE
Li-Ion
Cloud HSDPA
sync
Li-Pol LTE
Compass Trian- GPS A-GPS IPS TFT- LCD CRT
gulation LCD
NFC Multi-
touch
XMPP
Blue-
tooth Touch-
screen
MMS
USB SMS
SIM
Email Photo Key-
Wi-Fi camera board
Video
camera TCP

27. INEVITABILITY
If it’s possible, it’s necessary.

33. 1. TECHNOLOGICAL IMPERATIVES
Inherence Efficiency Complexity Inevitability

35. GPS
GPS

36. GPS
Genetic testing for $299

37. 2. MAKING SENSE OF INNOVATION

38. 2012
2020
2030
2040

39. AI INTERNET INTERFACES SENSORS UBICOMP ROBOTICS BIOTECH MATERIALS ENERGY SPACE GEOTECH

46. “SCI-FI SCAFFOLDING”

47. 3. BETTER GUESSES

49. Faces & smiles

56. Ubiquity
Person recognition
Object recognition
Focus & cropping

57. “UBICAM”

58. Knows where you are
Knows who you are with
Knows what to focus on
Knows what matters to you
Records & publishes automatically.

60. “UBICAM”

61. “UBICAM”

62. “UBICAM”

69. £499

70. £499
£29

71. Mesh networking
Better photovoltaics
Affordable smartphones

72. “AIRDROPPED REVOLUTIONS”

73. “AIRDROPPED REVOLUTIONS”

80. Drone cameras
Swarm robotics
Computer vision

82. “IRREPRESSIBLE PANOPTICON”

83. “IRREPRESSIBLE PANOPTICON”

84. “IRREPRESSIBLE PANOPTICON”

85. “IRREPRESSIBLE PANOPTICON”

88. 2014 2020 2030 2040
Arkyd 100: Arkyd 200: Arkyd 300: Asteroid mining
In-orbit telescopes More scientific instruments Networked swarm of robots H2O extraction
with remote sensing with additional propulsion orbiting an asteroid
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89. 4. WHAT NEXT?

91. It takes all the running you
“ can do, to keep in the same
place.
If you want to get somewhere
else, you must run at least
twice as fast as that!

92. HIT & MISS

95. envisioningtech.com/methodology/

96. Thank you.
@envisioningtech
mz@envisioningtech.com
envisioningtech.com