David Eaves talk from the 2011 Canadian Real Estate AGM

1. future is already here
it’s just not very evenly distributed
- william gibson
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3. Useful
Necessary
Ubiquitous
Easy to use
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5. Obsolete
Imposed
Location specific
Cumbersome
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6. Useful
Necessary
Ubiquitous
Easy to use
Obsolete
Imposed
Location specific
Cumbersome
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10. •Open and Accessible Data - the City of
Vancouver will freely share with citizens, businesses and
other jurisdictions the greatest amount of data possible
while respecting privacy and security concerns;
•Open Standards - the City of Vancouver will move
as quickly as possible to adopt prevailing open standards
for data, documents, maps, and other formats of media;
•Open Source Software - the City of Vancouver,
when replacing existing software or considering new
applications, will place open source software on an equal
footing with commercial systems during procurement
cycles;
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12. data as platform
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13. GPS
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14. Precision Bombing
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15. Precision Bombing
Aircraft Positioning
Locating
Rescue Workers
Mining Four Square
Equipment Google Maps
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19. Useful
Necessary
Ubiquitous
Easy to use
Obsolete
Imposed
Location specific
Cumbersome
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23. Gate keepers?
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25. your world is about to get
OPEN
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26. three predictions
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things are about to go J-shaped
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31. bigger winners, bigger losers
the bad will be more exposed
small differences = big differences
more niches
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34. 2.
value ≠ access
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35. but then it never did
value =
deeper analysis
engagement
consulting
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36. information platform?
Your monopoly
or someone else’s?
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38. 3.
No one in this room
will want to change
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39. collapse of complex societies
&
innovators dilemma
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40. agem ent
style man
Life
essm ent
Amenit y ass
MLS
H ome locating
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41. 20 Employees
$150M in Revenue
(and possibly much higher)
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42. CREA depends on a membership.
What if that membership shrank?
Radically.
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