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Investor @ Anthemis

Entrepreneur (200ideas, Lift, coComment)

Consultant, advisor, speaker

Swiss correspondent @ Wired UK

Lecturer @ University of Lausanne

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What role for foundations

in a world of radical change?

a world of radical change

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Disruptive innovations

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Aethon Inc.’s self-navigating TUG robots that transport soiled linens, drugs and meals in now more than 140 hospitals predominantly in the U.S.

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Innovation pushes

ethical boundaries

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Facebook knows you’re gay before your mother does

Research shows that your Facebook Likes reveal

a lot more about you than you think, including

your age, race, politics, and sexual preference.

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In March 2014, the Russian

Strategic Missile Forces

announced that mobile robots

would be standing guard over five

ballistic missile installations. These

robots can detect and destroy

targets, without human

involvement.

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Armed Russian robocops to defend missile bases

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Institutions protecting

the past

Tim O’Reilly

Policymakers have to choose between

protecting the past from the future, or

protecting the future from the past.

Uber, LeCab And Others Now Have To Wait 15 Minutes Before Picking You Up In France

More than seven years before Apple rolled out the iPhone, [the Nokia design team] showed a phone with a color touch screen set above a single button. The device was shown locating a restaurant, playing a racing game and ordering lipstick. In the late 1990s, Nokia secretly developed another alluring product: a tablet computer with a wireless connection and touch screen—all features today of the hot-selling Apple iPad. […] !Consumers never saw either device. The gadgets were casualties of a corporate culture that lavished funds on research but squandered opportunities to bring the innovations it produced to market.

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Profit oriented, short

term thinking

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Fast Company: Short-Term Thinking Is Our Biggest Problem

While problems and issues, like the global-

warming crisis and the energy-water nexus,

become more complex and require longer

time frames to solve, the West is becoming

increasingly shortsighted.

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Resistance to inevitable

changes

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History repeating

In 1862, Lincoln authorized sweeping control over the American telegraph infrastructure for Edwin Stanton, his secretary of war. Telegraphs were re-routed through his office, and Stanton used his power to spy on Americans, arrest journalists, and even control what was or wasn't sent.

How Lincoln used the telegraph office to spy on citizens long before the NSA

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INNOVATION PUSHES ETHICAL BOUNDARIES !

Help society define the new normal

• engage with the future to experience its

promises and limits • point to issues raised by innovation • help define what is societally acceptable

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INSTITUTIONS PROTECT THE PAST

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Protect the future • foundations’ different value set allows for

openness and risk-taking • encourage future-oriented thinking • allow society to test new models in a safe

environment

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PROFIT-ORIENTED, SHORT-TERM THINKING

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Provide long-term thinking • foundations need to help long-term projects

see the light of day • businesses quarterly thinking is unable to

solve society’s largest issues

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RESISTANCE TO INEVITABLE CHANGES

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Embrace the inevitable • identify key disruptions and help society

reorganise around them

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HISTORY REPEATING

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Reconnect us to our history • innovation is an endless cycle • the past is full of clues about how the future

will unfold • we are in danger of forgetting what happened

in the past and try to reinvent the wheel

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Alan Kay

The best way to predict the future

is to invent it.

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