WHAT'S ON THE TECHNOLOGY HORIZON FOR 2023
BRIAN PICHMAN : EVOLVE PROJECT

DESCRIPTION
¡ Things in the last several years have caused a rapid spur of innovation – especially as it pertains to technologies
related to health, hybrid learning, new uses for augmented and virtual reality, and artificial intelligence. What better
way to prepare for the winter wonderland on the horizon than by learning about the latest and greatest gadgets and
gizmos. Join Brian Pichman of the Evolve Project for 90 minutes of laughs, interaction, and exploration as together
we slide into learning about technology trends and their implications to our libraries and communities.

PLACES TO STAY INFORMED
CES Consumer Electronic Show Toy Fair

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GARTNER HYPE CYCLE

Tech moves through these five phases
HYPE CYCLE
A potential
technology
breakthrough kicks
things off. Early
proof-of-concept
stories and media
interest trigger
significant publicity.
Often no usable
products exist and
commercial viability
is unproven.
Innovation
Trigger
Peak of
Inflated
Expectations
Early publicity
produces a number
of success stories —
often accompanied
by scores of failures.
Some companies
take action; many do
not.
Trough of
Disillusionment
Interest wanes as
experiments and
implementations fail
to deliver. Producers
of the technology
shake out or fail.
Investments
continue only if the
surviving providers
improve their
products to the
satisfaction of early
adopters.
Slope of
Enlightenment
More instances of
how the technology
can benefit start to
become more
widely understood.
Next generation
products appear.
More enterprises
fund pilots;
conservative
companies remain
cautious.
Plateau of
Productivity
Mainstream
adoption starts to
take off. Criteria for
assessing provider
viability are more
clearly defined. The
technology's broad
market applicability
and relevance are
clearly paying off.
SOURCE: https://www.gartner.com/en/research/methodologies/gartner-hype-cycle

THEME 1: EVOLVING/EXPANDING IMMERSIVE
EXPERIENCES
¡ Decentralized identity (DCI) allows an entity (typically a human user) to control their own digital identity by leveraging
technologies such as blockchain or other distributed ledger technologies (DLTs), along with digital wallets.
¡ Digital humans are interactive, AI-driven representations that have some of the characteristics, personality, knowledge and
mindset of a human.
¡ Metaverse is a collective virtual 3D shared space, created by the convergence of virtually enhanced physical and digital
reality. A metaverse is persistent, providing enhanced immersive experiences.
¡ Non-fungible token (NFT) is a unique programmable blockchain-based digital item that publicly proves ownership of digital
assets, such as digital art or music, or physical assets that are tokenized, such as houses, cars or documents.
¡ Superapp is a composite mobile app built as a platform to deliver modular microapps that users can activate for personalized
app experiences.
¡ Web3 is a new stack of technologies for the development of decentralized web applications that enable users to control their
own identity and data.

THEME 2: ACCELERATED AI AUTOMATION
¡ Causal artificial intelligence (AI) identifies and utilizes cause-and-effect relationships to go beyond correlation-based
predictive models and toward AI systems that can prescribe actions more effectively and act more autonomously.
¡ Foundation models are transformer architecture-based models, such as large language models, which embody a type
of deep neural network architecture that computes a numerical representation of text in the context of surrounding
words, emphasizing sequences of words.
¡ Generative design AI or AI-augmented design, is the use of AI, machine learning (ML) and natural language
processing (NLP) technologies to automatically generate and develop user flows, screen designs, content, and
presentation-layer code for digital products.
¡ Machine learning code generation tools include cloud-hosted ML models that plug into professional developer
integrated development environments (IDEs), which are extensions that provide suggested code based on either
natural language descriptions or partial code fragments.

THEME 3: ENGINEERING TRUST
¡ A lot of the new technologies on the horizon have a
core focus on providing trust through security and
reliability.
¡ Example:
Smart Cities fusing information together to provide
real-time incident response through a variety of
sensors, videos, and communication systems.

Former CIA agent Reese (Jim Caviezel)
-- now presumed dead -- and billionaire
software genius Finch (Michael
Emerson) join forces as a vigilante
crime-fighting team. Using Finch's
program, which employs pattern
recognition to determine individuals
who will soon be involved in violent
crimes, they combine Reese's covert-
operations training and Finch's money
and cyberskills to stop crimes before
they happen.

THEME 4: ACCELERATING GROWTH
¡ Many of the technologies on the horizon can help
accelerate growth in organizations.
¡ Example: Digital Assistants or digital twins
representation that have an opportunity to solve
technical issues, recommend books, and more.
These can be chatbots, robots, smart speakers, etc.

A boy tries to stop his father from
dating by programming their
computerized house to be a
surrogate mother.

THEME 5: SCULPTING CHANGE
¡ Everyone's favorite word “change” is a theme for
2023.
¡ The concept is “You must anticipate and influence
change to mitigate risk.”

Based on a story by famed science
fiction writer Philip K. Dick, "Minority
Report" is an action-detective thriller
set in Washington D.C. in 2054, where
police utilize a psychic technology to
arrest and convict murderers before
they commit their crime. Tom Cruise
plays the head of this Precrime
unit and is himself accused of the
future murder of a man he hasn't even
met.

Top Strategic Tech Themes

Data Fabric
• Data is incredibly valuable
• Data is used to make decisions
• Data is used to make predictions
• Data is unfortunately siloed between application
• Data Fabric allows you to pull data from across a variety of sources
therefore making it useable wherever its needed

How It's Used Today: The Finnish city of Turku found its
innovation held back by gaps in its data. By integrating
fragmented data assets, it was able to reuse data, reduce time to
market by two-thirds, and create a monetizable data fabric.

Cybersecurity Mesh
• Just as Data is important, Security is
even more important
• That Data is scattered across a variety
of platforms so its important to keep
those safe from tampering (removal,
edits, etc).
How It's Used Today: An organization in the technology space
was struggling to create value from its threat intelligence
program. Using a cybersecurity mesh approach, they integrated
multiple data feeds from distinct security products to better
identify and respond more quickly to incidents.

Privacy-Enhancing Computation
• Continuing on with our theme of “data” – data is also being used for AI
Models, building analytics, and insight. But data also has privacy
concerns attached to it.
• As data is transmitted, shared, or used – the concept of encrypting or
splitting out sensitive data is a trend so that data can still be used as
informal without compromising confidentiality.

How It's Used Today: DeliverFund is a U.S.-based
nonprofit with a mission to tackle human trafficking.
Its platforms use homomorphic encryption so
partners can conduct data searches against its
extremely sensitive data, with both the search and
the results being encrypted. In this way, partners
can submit sensitive queries without having to
expose personal or regulated data at any point.

Cloud-Native Platforms
• As more things are being moved to the “cloud”
(or off premise) but not all applications can
simply be moved in such manner.
How It's Used Today: A major Indian bank built a cloud-native
platform to create a portfolio of new digital financial services.
The bank was able to reduce the time to open an account to just
6 minutes and add instant digital payments. Deployment of a
new microservices architecture enabled the integration of
savings, virtual debit card and credit card services, allowing the
system to easily scale to over 3.5 million transactions in two
months.

Sculpting Change Themes
Composable Applications
• How It's Used Today: Ally Bank has
created PBCs representing repeatable
capabilities such as fraud alerting,
which its fusion teams can assemble in
low-code environments, saving over
200,000 hours of manual effort.
Hyperautomation
• How It's Used Today: A global oil and
gas company has 14 concurrent
hyperautomation initiatives. These
initiatives include targeted task
automation, industrializing over 90
different areas including intelligent
document processing, and automation
of geoscience and offshore oil drilling
operations. Decisions on what to
automate are made strategically and
are premised on targeted business
outcomes for either quality, time to
market, business agility or innovation
for new business models.

Sculpting Change Themes
Decision Intelligence
• How It's Used Today: Product-
centric organizations can create a
competitive edge in strategic
product decisions by using
decision intelligence to analyze
competitor strategies and
evaluate historic decisions.
AI Engineering
• How It's Used Today: Unity
Health Hospital in Toronto
recognizes that AI credibility is
critical for acceptance by its
physicians. Its fusion teams work
to build trust by showing
physicians the reliability of AI
results — and the gaps.

Distributed Enterprise
Thanks a lot COVID!
• Employees needed to rapidly
shift to working remotely and
needed different tools and
increased flexibility.
Consumers Want Easier Access
• Consumers aren’t as available via
the traditional physical methods
and also want things delivered to
them quickly, remotely, and at
their leisure.

Total Experience
• How It's Used Today: Fidelity Spire uses a
total experience approach in its financial
services. Analytics and AI learn client
behaviors to proactively respond to a
client’s next action and to create realistic
training simulations for staff. Unified
identity services help clients move easily
through self-service onboarding and
provide integration to the advisor’s view,
across multiple touchpoints.

Generative AI
• We commonly understand AI as something to
produce an answer, conclusion, or recommendation.
• Generative AI takes sample data and makes new,
original, and realistic outputs.
How It's Used Today: The U.K. Financial Conduct Authority has
used generative AI to create synthetic payment data, from 5
million records of real payment data. The synthetic dataset will
be used to create new fraud models without revealing
individuals’ data.

My Thoughts On Tech Trends - AI
• Artificial Intelligence
• Lots of AI to replace basic
interactions

https://ouster.com/products/scanning-lidar/os0-sensor/

Generative AI
• Pictory.AI – create a video with just some words
• Rytr.Me – write a story so you don’t have to!

My Thoughts On Tech Trends – VR / AR
• Lots of New VR Based Companies
• Some for Exhibits (VirtuItaly)
• Some for Senor Care (Rendever)

AR / VR
• We’ve been using AR/VR for a while now

TactSuit X40
• Rich and elaborate haptic
feedback created by 40 vibration
motors of the vest and latency-
free wireless control provides
more immersive and realistic
feeling to users in various types
of content

OrCam Read
• First-of-its-kind handheld device,
reads text aloud from any printed
surface (newspapers, books,
product labels) or digital screen
(computers, smartphones) – in
real time.

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MoJo

AR – Health Care

AR in Maps / Stores

AR in Wearables
Wristworld is an augmented reality puzzle
RPG using wristbands. Travel through
four holographic lands, interact with
characters to solve the mystery, show off
your 3D character and carry a whole
world...on your wrist! Saving Wristworld
hinges on your ability to become an
augmented reality master. The future is
literally in your hands!

Augmented Reality Book!
Reptiles & Amphibians: An Augmented Reality Popup Book

https://www.lightup.io/

AR GLOBE
• With 400+ highlights & 1000+ cool facts to
explore, Orboot is the perfect S.T.E.A.M. toy for
kids. A perfect toy for the ever-curious kids
that sparks their imagination and curiosity.
Makes for a unique and cool gift for kids!
Explore & learn at the tap of a finger with the
best interactive globe for kids.
• 49.99
https://www.playshifu.com/orboot

Orboot

AR In Your Browser
• Search for “Giant Panda”

Merge Cubes
• Let’s you experience AR in the palm of your hand
• Create “Minecraft” environments
• Explore the Solar System
• Paid apps like Anatomy let you hold organs in your hand

Botzees

Drones and VR

All In One
Hololens Magic Leap

https://en.shiftall.net/our-products

Immersive Workspaces

Cutii - CareClever
• Cutii is the world’s first care robot
developed to overcome social
isolation and cognitive decline for
our seniors. Experience virtual
visits, live activities and gain
peace of mind with emergency
management and tele-health
capabilities. With a stunningly
simple interface designed WITH
and FOR seniors Cutii empowers
human interaction.

Tech Trends - Health
• Contact Tracing
• Senior Care

The AirPop Active+ Halo

BioButton Covid-19 Screening Solution

https://www.algocarelab.com/

https://www.bbalance.io/

https://vivoo.io/

https://byloftie.com/products/loftie

https://www.binah.ai/

Tech Trends –
Distant Learning, Communications, and More

Sustainability
A lot of exhibitors talked about their
sustainability goals and focus on the
environment

Whiz Gambit – 2-in-1 AI-powered
cleaning & disinfection solution
Whiz Gambit, is a 2-in-1 AI-powered cleaning
and disinfection robotic solution jointly
developed by Avalon SteriTech and SoftBank
Robotics Group. The robot is the first
disinfection robot to achieve Performance
Mark by SGS, the world's leading verification
and testing company, with proven efficacy to
eliminate >99% microbial bioburden.
Importantly, Whiz Gambit greatly minimizes
potential health risks in communal areas with
its effective, consistent cleaning and
disinfection performance. It has been a
trusted partner for hospitality groups,
shopping malls, schools, and offices around
the world.

Tech Trends - Robotics

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Roybi – AI Educator
Roybi Robot uses artificial intelligence to deliver personalized content to children based on their pace and interests. With over 500 lessons, including basic
STEM, stories, games, and songs, Roybi Robot creates a fun and interactive learning experience for children.

https://exoskeletonreport.com/product/archelis/

Petcube
• Petcube's pet monitoring systems
include Petcube Play 2, a pet cam
with built-in laser, Petcube Bites
2, a pet camera that gives treats,
and Petcube Cam — the smartest
pet and security camera with a
built-in Vet Chat

https://ottonomy.io/

Robotic Assistants
• Have someone set your table
• Do the dishes (winning)
• Vacuum your home (Roomba!)
• Someone to hang with you

CRAZY New Tech Coming Out

Smart Mirrors

RF5.2mm F2.8 L Dual Fisheye Lens
You can create immersive 3D
that can be experienced when
viewed on compatible head
mount displays including the
Oculus Quest 2 and more.*
Viewers will be able to take in
the scene with a vivid, wide
field of view by simply moving
their head. This is the world's
first digital interchangeable
lens that can capture
stereoscopic 3D 180° VR
imagery to a single image
sensor.

Seenetic VR
• The first solution to avoid Virtual
Reality sickness. This stand-alone
device is compatible with HTC's
Vive & Vive Pro head-mounted
displays. Just slip Seenetic
VR into your VR headset and
enjoy the best immersion
experience
https://seenetic.com/

WOWCube Entertainment System (Cubios Inc)
• WOWCube® System - mixed reality
device, digital 3D puzzle you play a
way you've never played before
acting in physical and virtual
realities by tilting, twisting and
shaking the Cube. Cubios Inc. based
in Novato, CA focuses on hi-tech
consumer robotic toys and
entertainment game platforms
design, development, marketing
and distribution.

Samsung C-Labs
ZamStar Piloto
https://claboutside.com/ces2022/exhibitor/detail/zamstar https://claboutside.com/ces2022/exhibitor/detail/piloto

For your furry babies
Fluent Pet Wagz
https://fluent.pet/

For your human babies
iBabi Smart Craddlewise
https://www.amaryllo.us/ibabi https://cradlewise.com/

Robotry
https://www.robotry.co.kr/

Top Trends

Must Have Educational Technology for Your
Library

Luka
The company's core product, Luka, empowers education
with artificial intelligence technologies, such as computer
vision and natural language interaction, and realizes multi-
sensory and multi-modal interaction with functions as

Toniebox
• The Toniebox is a screen-free
digital listening device that plays
stories, songs and more
https://us.tonies.com/

pi-top
• Robotics Kit, combines cloud-
hosted AI and machine learning
with IoT in an innovative and
easy-to-use package
• Can work in a shared coding
environment (through Teams)
and people from around the
world can code a single robot

Finch 2.0
• Make Coding Fun and Interactive
with the new and improved Finch
– now wireless with even more
fun packed features

ClicBot
• ClicBot is not just a robot, it is a
community that thrives on all creative
spirits!
• In the community, you can meet crazy
robots from 82+ countries to get
inspired, talk about your wild ideas,
discuss creative programming
approaches, even co-op play, and make
friends worldwide without stepping
outdoors.
• Every kid's ideas deserve to prosper,
ClicBot is the convoy of childhood
development and the perfect platform
to flourish all fancy ideas. Let ClicBot
grow with your kid together!

ChessUp
• ChessUp is an incredible,
connected chessboard with a
built-in chess instructor. Touch a
piece and the board lights up all
possible moves according to
strength.

Temporary Tattoo Printer
• Roll the printer along your body
to bring an instant tattoo to life.

Tiktok Ready Selfie Motors
Magnetic Phone Mount Pivo
https://www.belkin.com/us/magsafe-magnetic-
accessories/magnetic/magnetic-phone-mount-with-
face-tracking/p/p-mma001/
https://pivo.ai/products/pivo-pod-one

Picoo
https://www.picoo.com/

Animal Island Learning Adventure (AILA)
• Designed for 12-36 Month Olds
• Teach ABCs, Colors, Words,
Shapes etc.
• . It can adapt to the child’s
learning style over time, also
managing screen time
https://animalisland.us/

Artie Max
• Learn to code line by line with
Artie Max, where coding meets
creativity
https://www.codewithartie.com/

Zumi

Itty Bitty Buggy
MSRP: $59.99
T h e I t t y B i t t y B u g g y k i t c o m e s
w i t h a b a s e B u g g y p l u s f o u r
o p p o r t u n i t i e s t o b u i l d a s l o t h ,
a l a d y b u g , a d o d o b i r d a n d a n
a l i e n .
L e a r n t o c o d e , h a v e y o u r
r o b o t d e t e c t l i g h t , l i n e s , v o i c e
c o n t r o l , c o l o r , a n d m o r e .
https://microduinoinc.com/itty-bitty-buggy/

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Planning Spaces
Start Small
You don’t need to buy large kits
or buy all of the latest and
greatest. Start with a few small
things and grow from there.
Be Open
Storage should be in clear,
accessible bins. Let the patrons
see the things you have!
Use It
Use the items you have in your
library – show case products,
have staff experiment, use, and
play.
Can Be Anywhere
You can have your tech on a
table, house it online, or in and
around the community.

How can we stay info
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Ways to Stay Informed
Every year in March in Texas, is
a festival of innovation,
excitement, art, music and
education
https://www.sxsw.com/
South by South West
SXSW
Attend as many different events
that are available to you. There
is always lots of great
information out there.
Webinars, TED Talks, Etc
Other Events
We mentioned a few at the start
of this slidedeck
Consumer Electronic Show
CONFERENCES
Take a look at sites such as
Kickstarter and Indiegogo
Crowd Funding Sites
Crowd Funding

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