A couple of brief technological scenarios related to the future automobile industry.

1. Michell Zappa
A brief future of technological scenarios

3. GPS
GPS GPS

4. GPS
GPS
GPS GPS

5. 3 days of content
uploaded every minute.

6. TECHNOLOGICAL IMPERATIVES
Inherence Efficiency Complexity Inevitability

7. INHERENCE
Technology wants to be part of us.

10. Anything useful that
“ we make is technology.
— Kevin Kelly
— Founding executive editor, WIRED Magazine

11. EFFICIENCY
Technology wants to be faster.

12. COST SPEED

13. 2012
2008
CPU × FSB RAM SSD Mbps

14. Years
0
5
10
15
20
25
Electricity 30
Telephone
Radio
Television
Computer
Internet
Mobile phone
Smartphone
Tablet
TIME
ADOPTION

15. COMPLEXITY
Technology creates itself out of itself.

18. Li-Pol Multi- Kernel EDGE
media
NiMH File- OS Cloud GPRS
system sync
Li-Ion App Social LTE GSM
store network
Video Photo TCP IPS Touch-
camera camera screen
Internet MMS SIM LCD HSDPA
Email SMS TFT- Multi-
XMPP LCD touch
GPS Compass LED Wi-Fi Key-
board
Trian- A-GPS Blue- USB NFC
gulation tooth

19. system
GSM
NiMH OS Kernel
App GPRS
store
Multi- Social
media network EDGE
Li-Ion
Cloud HSDPA
sync
Li-Pol LTE
Compass Trian- GPS A-GPS IPS TFT- LCD CRT
gulation LCD
NFC Multi-
touch
XMPP
Blue-
tooth Touch-
screen
MMS
USB SMS
SIM
Email Photo Key-
Wi-Fi camera board
Video
camera TCP

21. INEVITABILITY
If it’s possible, it’s necessary.

27. TECHNOLOGICAL IMPERATIVES
Inherence Efficiency Complexity Inevitability

28. 2. MAKING SENSE OF INNOVATION

29. 2012
2020
2030
2040

30. AI INTERNET INTERFACES SENSORS UBICOMP ROBOTICS BIOTECH MATERIALS ENERGY SPACE GEOTECH

33. “SCI-FI SCAFFOLDING”

34. PHOTOGRAPHY

35. Faces & smiles

42. Ubiquity
Person recognition
Object recognition
Focus & cropping

43. “UBICAM”

44. Knows where you are
Knows who you are with
Knows what to focus on
Knows what matters to you
Records & publishes automatically.

46. “UBICAM”

47. “UBICAM”

48. “UBICAM”

49. SCREENS

58. BRING YOUR OWN DEVICE

65. Media Contacts
Apps
News Software
feeds updates

66. Friends Data integrity Payments Driving Smart grid Device
nearby prefs data proofing
Placemarks Media Apps Contacts Location
history
Weather Interface News Software Conversations Tripit
data consistency feeds updates data
Foursquare FaceTime Software NUI Data
checkins integration agents prefs tethering

67. SHARING

69. OWNERSHIP ACCESS
?

70. U.S. car sharing: Members & Vehicles
1,000,000
100,000
10,000
1,000
100
2000 2002 2004 2006 2008 2010

82. Ride sharing
Contextual computing
Multi-modal routing
Self-driving cars

83. “DON’T TELL ME WHAT TO DO”

84. “DON’T TELL ME WHAT TO DO”

85. Thank you.
@envisioningtech
mz@envisioningtech.com
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