8. “A wondrous thing: the gathering
of folks from all walks of life who
blend science,
technology, craft, and art to make
things goofy and grand.”
–New York Times
9. What We Really Do At O'Reilly
Change the world by spreading the
knowledge of innovators
10. O’Reilly Radar Methodology
“The future is here. It’s just not evenly distributed
yet.” - William Gibson
We “watch the alpha geeks” and think about the
futures they are living in
We then look for trend data that tells us that a
particular future is becoming mainstream
I’m going to tell you some seemingly unconnected
technology stories from the front lines of innovation.
Then we’re going to connect the dots.
22. “I’m an inventor.
I became interested in
long term trends because
an invention has to make
sense in the world in
which it is finished, not
the world in which it is
started.”
-Ray Kurzweil
25. “Ask yourself for a moment, what is the
operating system of a Google or Bing search?
What is the operating system of a mobile
phone call? What is the operating system of
maps and directions on your phone? What is
the operating system of a tweet?”
26. The smart phone plus local search. Today pizza, tomorrow
Pazzia, 337 3rd Street
California Pizza Kitchen, 53 3rd Street
Blondie’s Pizza. 63 Powell Street
27. An application running on a
mobile device whose user
interface is driven by sensors:
- Touch screen
- Motion and proximity sensors
- Microphone
- GPS or cell tower triangulation
28.
29.
30. An application that depends on
cooperating cloud data services:
- Speech recognition
- Search
- Location data
31. Another application that
depends on cooperating
cloud data services:
- Location
- Search
- Speech recognition
- Live Traffic
- Imagery
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Notes de l'éditeur
Results from 90 million geotagged photos on Flickr: http://code.flickr.com/blog/2008/10/30/the-shape-of-alpha/
Each device is recognizable solely from its “energy signature.”