The slides to my keynote delivered at the opening dinner of the HR Vision Amsterdam 2015 conference. I am dealing with the rapid change societies around the world will face with the ascent of faster computing, AI and robotics. Not only dystopian, I also offer thoughts about some pathways to look at for humanity to start making the most of this.

1. What Have You Done Tomorrow?How to make sense of and prepare for an uncertain future
Volker Hirsch
@vhirsch
HR Vision
Amsterdam, 1 Jun 2015
MadMax:FuryRoad

2. The future is unknown

3. BMW i8 conceptBut it’s faster today...

4. Sir Francis Bacon, 1561-1626
Knowledge
is power.

5. 18
exabyte
10

9. http://gapingvoid.com

10. Sarah Connor, Terminator
What now?
Dystopia?

11. Meet your future workforce

12. Factory Worker

13. Cleaner

14. Policeman
Boston Dynamics Wildcat

16. Sniper
General Atomics, MQ-9 Reaper

17. Taxi Driver
Mercedes F015

18. Waiter

19. Pizza Delivery Guy

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

21. Athlete
Tosy, Topio 3

22. Extraterrestrial Miner
Project “Athlete”, NASA Jet Propulsion Lab, Caltech

23. Baxter

25. IBM Watson

27. Automation will take the
jobs it can take
http://www.cgpgrey.com/

28. Massive Impact on the Workplace & Employment
Forbes, Feb. 2015

29. RIP. It was good while it lasted...
Banker Lawyer

30. memory augmentation therapist
plant educator
nano-weapon specialist
diffractive optics modeler
New Jobs for you:

31. Ray Kurzweil

32. MIT Whirlwind

33. Google Compute Engine

34. Gordon Moore

35. Moore’s Law

36. Moore’s Law in perspective

37. Quantum
Computing D Wave 2

39. Ray Kurzweil
Kurzweil TL;DR

40. 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

41. I have no idea
what
you are
talking about

42. To infinity
and beyond:
Infinite
Learning
Loops
Buzz Lightyear

43. Change alone is
eternal,
perpetual,
immortal.
Arthur Schopenhauer, 1788-1860

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

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

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

47. Where is the path?

48. What is specifically HUMAN?

49. Passion

50. Photo (c) 2015 Dan Taylor for Heisenberg Media
Mindfulness

51. Cirque de Soleil
Creativity

52. Critical Thought

53. Plato + Aristotle
Caveat
emptor

54. Deductive
Inference

57. Thank You!
@vhirsch
me@vhirsch.com
+44 7843 599 678