1. Gerd Leonhard
Futurist, Author
& CEO
TheFuturesAgency
#askgerd *ask me anything!
Big Data - Big Mobile . Big Social.
Big bucks - Big noise - Big machines?
The Future of the Internet

4. Us
Us
D a t a

5. Next 3 years: SoLoMo Re-Imagination of...everything:)
Source: Mary Meeker State of the Internet Report 2012 / KPCB

6. * Meme started by Clive Humby AMA

7. Big Money @ Big Data = Big Temptation

8. Big Data: we must do better than Big Oil!

9. Big Data: we must do better than Big Oil!

10. “If you take more out than you put in
the ecosystem eventually fails”
Tim O’Reilly

11. The center of growth will shift

12. Get ready to become a really global brain;)

13. “If you don’t measure the right thing,
you don’t do the right thing”
Economist Joseph Stiglitz

14. From stuff to bits

15. The future is already here!
Cloud-Everything

16. First media, now... stuff
Data, Design and Emotions become the real assets

17. Brands: The Intangibles take over: Likes. Love. Sentiments
Image via Carola Riegler on Flickr

18. But ‘Liking’ is a lot more complicated than this...

19. Touching
data
changes us

20. Mobile devices are becoming External Brains
In-Hand ➲ With-Voice ➲ On-Glasses
➲ On-Iris ➲ Implanted ➲ ?

21. Do you agree or disagree?
We will be able to (re)-engineer ourselves - and our planet, too

22. What purpose should ‘amazing technology’ have?
Source: YouTube ADmented Reality - Google Glasses Remixed with Google Ads

23. The future is already here!
Google Glass 1955?

24. Human-to-
Data-to-Human
Interfaces
i.e. Sense-Making

26. The future is already here!
How will humans interface with very smart,
fast, friendly and powerful data ie machines?
data oil

27. Real machine intelligence is coming within reach

28. What will
define
‘human’
5 years
from now?

29. NOT Science Fiction?

30. ‘Internet Inside’ ETA: 3-5 years

31. Language barriers becoming a thing of the past...?
Source: Youtube/Docomo

32. Re-Imagining Human-Data Relationships

33. From centralized to de-centralized

34. Locked Loose Liquid

35. The Future of Data: Decline of
Empires, Rise of Networks

36. The new ‘inter-relating’

37. The new ‘inter-relating’...
Rise of the ‘Global Village’
Ai Wei-Wei Gangnam style on Youtube @aiww

38. New Data
New Media Ecosystem
Ecosystem
New Energy
Ecosystem
New Education
Ecosystem New Money
Ecosystem

40. Networked Business Models - or bust

41. From independent to interdependent
Video via Youtube, Tiffany Shain: Connected the Film

42. The Big Data Society?

43. http://www.wired.com/autopia/2010/09/bump-is-a-social-network-for-your-license-plate/

44. Totally just the tip of the iceberg...

46. Every thought in the open...?

48. Data spills are becoming increasingly likely

49. Do you agree or disagree:
We can rely on algorithms to measure most of what and who matters

50. The ‘hedonic treadmill’ will get old :=)

51. But the Publicy Default is accelerating

52. But regardless of value, control and trust
we will probably start paying real $ for privacy
Source: Embleton Banksy on Flickr

53. Sense-Making | Curation | Filtering

55. The future is already here!
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