David Orban Chairman, Humanity+ Advisor, Singularity University Founder & Chief Evangelist, WideTag, Inc. Intelligence Augmentation, Decision Power, And The Emerging Data Sphere Human civilization depends on our ability to manage its increasing complexity. Behaviors, processes, and decisions that in the past were tolerated by the complex adaptive system we call Earth, are now more and more showing unforeseen consequences in unexpected places. Many of our theories about the workings of the world are hampered in their predictive power by the lack of data, and suffer garbage-in, garbage-out effects. New interconnected sensor networks, fast, and ubiquitous communications, and the parallel power of our massive software systems are the never too soon answer to this need, and promise to revolutionize the way we understand, and act upon the planet. The data sphere we are building, developing through every traceable action of millions of people, and billions, soon trillions of devices, designs a fine-grained picture of necessary understanding, and empowers us to believe that we can indeed aim to evolve our civilization, and to move it to the next levels of complexity, and achievement of human potential. David Orban is an entrepreneur and visionary. He is Chairman of Humanity+, Advisor of the Singularity University, a Founder of WideTag, Inc., a high technology start-up company providing the infrastructure for an open Internet of Things. David shapes the strategic vision of its technologies by developing the policies and communication steps necessary to enable constructive progress. He is further a Scientific Advisory Board Member for the Lifeboat Foundation. David cuts across the limits of deep specialization to contribute to the new renaissance. He explains, “My vision is at the crossroads of technology and society as defined by their co-evolution.” David Orban’s personal motto is, “What is the question I should be asking?” This concept is his vehicle to accelerating cycles of invention and innovation in order to build the new world ahead.

1. David Orban
The Evolving Data
Sphere
H+ Summit @ Harvard
12-13 June, 2010

2. What Will Keep You
Human?

3. David Orban
Chairman, Humanity+
twitter @davidorban
david@humanityplus.org
Joi Ito

4. humanityplus.org
singularityu.org
widetag.com

5. <start>

6. <1>

7. What

8. Fred Armitage
William Gibson
The future is already here. It is just not evenly distributed yet

9. Aswers beget questions
Questions Ignorance
Kevin Kelly - kk.org
Answers

10. What Do We Know?
Gaspa

12. What’s On Your Radar
Banksy / Robbiedangerous

13. Spime = SPace + tIME
Bruce Sterling

14. Evolving Devices

15. 1

16. A Granular World
IPv4 ≈ 10 9
IPv6 ≈ 10 38
Atoms ≈ 10 80

17. Drawing Fine Lines
Wonderlane

18. 2

19. Necessary Autonomy
Platform Orders of magnitude
PCs ≈ 108
Mobiles ~ Humans ≈ 109
Spimes > 1012

20. Around Us Already
Ryan Harvey

21. 3

22. Network Evolution
Generation Isotropy Access
Web data knowledge
Web 2.0 applications social
Spimes sensors world

23. Redundancy Needed
NASA JPL

24. 4

25. Changing Dialog
Generation Bandwidth M2M Index
Industrial apps Kb/s 1%
Realtime Web Mb/s 10%
Spime Networks Gb/s 99%+
M2M index: M2M/M2H, communications among machine in proportion to those with humans

26. Decision making
µµ

27. 5

28. Not blind anymore
Object # sensors
Mobile phone 10
Car 50-100

29. Awareness
Volvo

30. </1>

31. <2>

32. Who

33. kandinski
Bruce Sterling
Forget trying to pass for normal

37. </2>

38. <3>

39. Why

40. rosetechven.com
David Rose
Integrity is the most important value

41. The Anthropocene
1% 2%
terrestrial humans
vertebrates pets
in the wild cattle
99% 98%
10.000 BC Today

42. Unsustainable
badjonni

43. Sense The World
bazusa

44. Sensing The Technium
Nite Owl

45. Adapt
aussiegirl

46. </3>

47. <4>

48. Examples

49. claren44
Larry Smarr
Failure of imagination is a fundamental human defect

50. Current

51. • Spreading the Idea. Involve people.
First Quarter Action Plan

52. Future

53. Transportation
A.M. Kuchling

54. 4G Communication
rmforall

55. Energy
joyseyshowaa

56. Quantified Self
I Don’t Know Maybe

57. </4>

58. <5>

59. When

60. Randy Stewart
Bre Pettis
Things are changing faster than we can die

61. A process, not an event
1 < IoT< 25

62. Advanced Collaboration
Foxtongue

63. </5>

64. <6>

65. What
should
happen

66. David Orban
Alex Lightman
In the future many groups will rule the world for 15 minutes

67. Earth
Aussiegirl

68. Strange Place And Time
aussiegirl

69. Planetary Co-evolution
will_hybrid

70. Free To Be Human
me’nthedogs

71. Humanity+
bingbing

72. </6>

73. <end>

74. david@
widetag.com
singularityu.org
humanityplus.org
davidorban.com
@davidorban