5. 5
Roy Amara, Institute for the Future
"We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in
the short run and underestimate the effect in the long
run.”
6. 6
Electrification of homes started around the start of the 20th century, and by
1930, roughly 70% of western homes had electricity
First for electric lighting, but then for home appliances
Powered by the invention of affordable, reliable electric motors
Massively improved quality of life
8. 8
Starting in the mid-1950s, transistors and then integrated circuits made their way
into household products
Revolutionised the way we communicate, consume information and
entertainment, and later exponentially more powerful and more available
computer
Made possible by the silicon transistor and lithographic production of planar ICs
9. 9
Our grandparents could count the
number of electric motors they
owned
Our parents could count the things
they owned with a computer chip in
it
Credit: Ben Evans, A16Z
12. 12
Our grandparents could count the
number of electric motors they
owned
Our parents could count the things
they owned with a computer chip in
it
We can still count the things we
own that are connected to the
network
Credit: Ben Evans, A16Z
13. 13
We can still count the things we
own that are connected to the
network
When this seems hilariously quaint
and our kids’ generation tease us
about it, we’ve succeeded
23. 23
“A new scientific truth does not
triumph by convincing its
opponents and making them see
the light,
but rather because its opponents
eventually die, and a new
generation grows up that is
familiar with it.”
— Max Planck
26. 26
The Mobile Computing Revolution
Smart, low-power, connected devices
Cortex-R
Cortex-A
3G
LTE
Standards based internet capabilities
Browsers,
Javascript,
HTTP, TLS
Platforms and community developmentEco-systems enabled by trust
Mobile Computing