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Future<Fiction> or Future<Fact>? 20th March 2018
Craig Wing | @wingnuts123
craig@futureworld.org
1. The World today
2. The Age of the Machine
3. Beyond Humanity
1. The World today
2. The Age of the Machine
3. Beyond Humanity
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Who’s creating this bold, crazy future?
Elon Musk Brian Chesky Travis Kalanick
Sergey Brin Jack Ma
Jeff Bezos Mark Zuckerberg
Jack Dorsey Pony Ma Satoshi Nakamoto
What happens when you combine shopping with Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, Mobile Internet, Machine Learning,
Virtual Reality and Cloud Computing?
And throw in a bunch of celebrities!
• $25.3-BILLION (+40%) sales & 1.5Bn transactions in one day!
• $5Bn in 15 MINUTES
• 325,000 orders PER SECOND
• 250,000 payments processed EVERY SECOND
• 1 Billion packages shipped from 140,000 brands and merchants
A day in China now bigger than a year's
online sales in Brazil!
90% of sales came
from MOBILE
PHONES!
3.8% of Switzerland’s GDP *The World Bank
…leadership knows no age limit
Sebastain Kurz, 31, Austria
Kim Jung-un, 34, North Korea
Emmanuel Macron, 39, France
Jacinda Ardern, 37, New Zealand
Donald Trump, 71, United States
Angela Merkel, 62 Germany
Theresa May, 61 United Kingdom
Vladimir Putin, 65 Russia
1. The World today
2. The Age of the Machine
3. Beyond Humanity
Connectivity will change EVERYTHING we know and do!
Robocop, 17 July 1987 Expect to see Robots more & more!
"Blockchain will
become the
'beating heart' of
the global
financial system”
– WEF, August
2016
Blockchain is about more than just Crypocurrency
Star Wars Ep 4, 29 Jan 1978
The Machines get even smarter!
1. The World today
2. The Age of the Machine
3. Beyond Humanity
0-17 years old: underage 18-65 years old: youth/young people 66-79 years old: middle-aged 80-99 years old: elderly/senior 100+ years old: long-lived elderly *World Health Organization
Jurassic Park, 11 June 1993 Living to 150 will be the new normal…
Ghost in the Machine, 26 March 2017 (1993, 1967 – Koestler., A)
…and maybe even BRINGING BACK THE DEAD
Matrix, 31 March 1999
…Is this even REAL LIFE?
5 Takeaway thoughts and lessons
1. The future is not matter of Chance, it’s
a matter of Choice
2. "The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read or write, but those who
cannot learn, unlearn and relearn.” - Alvin Toffler, Futurist
3. Begin a Reverse Mentoring
process – mentor AND mentee
4. We must use Technology to be MORE, not less
“Human”
5. Be Crazy enough to
think you can (and will)
Change the world