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1. New Technology 2014
Course Introduction
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2. Teacher
▪ Ólafur Andri Ragnarsson
– Adjunct at Reykjavik University
– Co-founder & Chief Software Architect, Betware
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– andri@ru.is
– http://www.olafurandri.com
– http://twitter.com/olandri
– http://delicious.com/olandri
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– Office hours after Friday lecture
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3. Teacher
▪ Hilmar Kári Hallbjörnsson
– Leiðbeinandi
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– hilmarh05@ru.is
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4. Course Content
A Journey Exploring Technology
Exponential World
How Innovation Happens
Becoming Invisible
The Adjacent Possible
Disruptive Technology
Diffusion of Innovation
The Innovator´s Dilemma
Looking for Opportunities
Power of Software
Connecting People
The Rise of the Machine
The Mobile Revolution
Interacting with Technology
The Social Layer
Predictive Intelligence
The Broadcast Century
Robotics and Drones
Gamification
A Worldwide Network
Computer games
Future Trends
New Business models
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5. A Journey Exploring Technology
What does technology mean?
How do we define technology?
The Study of People
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6. Exponential World
Waves of development
What exponential means?
Local and linear vs.
global and exponential
Moore’s Law
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7. The Adjacent Possible
Why are things invented when they are?
Layers of technology
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8. How Innovation Happens
How does technology evolve?
The Slow Hunch
Liquid Network
Serendipity
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9. Diffusion of Innovation
Why do people adopt new technology?
Why do good technologies fail and inferior succeed?
What are
customers really
buying?
Crossing the Chasm
The Hype Cycle
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10. Becoming Invisible
When products mature, technology is irrelevant
Importance of style and emotion
Why engineers are bad designers

11. Disruptive Technology
Technologies that change everything
Why do businesses always fail to respond?
Reactions to disruptive technologies
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12. The Innovator´s Dilemma
Making all the right decisions and still failing
Why listening to your customers is fatal
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13. Looking for Opportunities
Can we track and understand technology trends?
Principles of Disruptive Innovations
Model to understand trends
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14. Connecting People
The ultimate market
Those who have access
to information tend to win
Telegraph, telephone,
wireless transmissions,
broadcasting
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15. Rise of the Machine
From adding machines to
electronic brains to
general purpose computers
Disruption of Automation
Birth of the IT industry
MITS Altair 8800
How IBM created an industry
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16. Power of Software
Xerox Parc
The DEMO of the Century
Beginning of GUIs
OS for the consumers
The Rise of Microsoft
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17. Interacting with Technology
Beyond the Desktop
Touch, gesture and audio
New User Interfaces
Displays anywhere
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18. The Broadcast Century
The Cognitive Surplus
End of the Movie Start
The Long Tail
TV of the Future
The transformation of the
TV industry is beginning
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19. A Worldwide Network
The Accidental network
Brief History of the Internet
The Future of the Internet
The Wi-Fi revolution
Standards
RFID
Near-field communications
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20. The Mobile Revolution
Cellular networks
Generations
Smartphones
The iPhone effect
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21. The Social Layer
P2P
UGC
Collaboration
Crowdsourcing
The Long Tail
Folksonomy
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22. Predictive Intelligence
The Local in SoLoMo
Checking in
Mining the digital footprint
Exploiting context
Machine learning
Big Data
Predictive Intelligence
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23. New Business Models
The Business of Music
Beyond selling digital copies
Freeconomics
Freemiums
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24. Computer Games
The rise of computer games
The crash of 1986
Casual games
Multiplayer games
Serious games
Future of games
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25. Gamification
Getting people to do stuff they don’t like
Status and rewards
Player types
Player emotions
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26. Robotics and Drones
Race against the machine
Personal programmable robots
Drones
Future of Work
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27. Future Trends
What’s next?
Virtual reality is
more real than reality
Your phone will tell you
what you need to know
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28. Reading
▪ Textbook
– New Technology text available
as PDF
– Reading material are articles
or videos from the Internet
– Some are posted on http://olafurandri.com
▪ Reading is either required or optional
– All readings will be posted on the course web
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29. Interesting Books
▪ Engines That Move Markets
– Alasdair Nairn
▪ The Innovators Dilemma
– Clayton M. Christensen
▪ Crossing the Chasm
– Geoffrey A. Moore
▪ The Tipping Point
– Malcolm Gladwell
▪ The Invisible Computer
– Donald A. Norman
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http://www.olafurandri.com/?cat=3
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30. Interesting Books
▪ Where do good ideas
come from
– Steve Johnson
▪ What Technology Wants
– Kevin Kelly
▪ Reality is Broken
– Jane McGonigal
▪ The Singularity is Near
– Ray Kurzweil
▪ The Future of the Internet
and how to Stop it
– Jonathan Zittrain
see
http://www.olafurandri.com/?cat=3
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31. Interesting Web Sites
▪ Economist - http://www.economist.com
▪ Technology Review - http://
www.technologyreview.com
▪ NY Times - http://www.nytimes.com
▪ Businessweek - http://www.businessweek.com/
▪ ZDNet technology News - http://news.zdnet.com/
▪ CNet - http://www.cnet.com/ (news.cnet.com)
▪ Google News - http://news.google.com
▪ Yahoo Finance News - http://finance.yahoo.com/
▪ Ars Technica - http://arstechnica.com/
▪ Wired - http://www.wired.com/
▪ Guardian - http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology
http://www.olafurandri.com/?page_id=1490
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34. Grading
▪ Study exercises
– Short in-class exercises 10%
▪ Assignments
– Two assignments 20% (10% each)
▪ Reading Review
– Three reviews 20% (8%,8%,4%)
▪ Paper Peer-review
– Review of paper and comments 10%
▪ Research Paper
– Research of a particular topic 40%
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35. Research
▪ Objectives
– Term project
– Study or research of a particular topic chosen by the
student
– Must be approved by the teacher
▪ Area of study
– Can be a device, a concept, a trend, a standard,
philosophy or a metaphor, or a particular product
– Gather information and write a paper
– Best papers will be published
▪ Your research starts now!
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36. Research
▪ These milestones are set:
– Research topic selection is due 16.02 (week 5)
– Research goals and outline are due 02.03 (week 7)
– Research Paper Draft for Peer Review is due 16.03
(week 9)
– Peer-Review is due 23.03 (week 10)
– Paper is due 30.03 at 22:00 (week 11)
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▪ Research Paper is an individual work and is 40% of
the course grade
– Draft and Peer-review is 10%
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37. Research Study Group
▪ Group of 4-5 students
– Will read your paper and give you review
– Valuable service
– Peer review
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38. Online Resources
▪ Course Web Site in MySchool
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▪ Teacher’s web site: http://www.olafurandri.com
– Twitter: @olandri #nyti
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39. Online Resources
▪ Slides are in Slideshare
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▪ Links in MySchool
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40. Online Resources
▪ Audio Recording are on Vimeo
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42. Timeplan (stundaskrá)
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43. Lectures are in Flight Mode
▪ Laptops and other communication devices
are forbidden in class
– You don’t need them!
– Classes are interactive and focused
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44. Prerequisite
▪ None... except
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46. Prerequisite
▪ No programming required
▪ Interest in technology and social change is
recommended
▪ Qualification test
– 2001 Space Odyssey
– The Matrix
– Minority Report
• http://www.minorityreport.com/
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49. A Journey Exploring
Technology
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50. Study
Exercise
What was the major
technology innovation
in 2013?
MISSION:
E NEXT CLASS
IND OUT BEFOR
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