1. Management and Leadership
in Health
and Humanitarianism
Class 7: Understanding Futures – Technology
A module of the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute
Eric JAMES, PhD
27 January 2013
2. Learning Objectives:
• Become familiar with the latest cutting-edge advancements in
technology that have a global social impact
• Gain a basic understanding of how these advances may disrupt health
and humanitarianism
7. Commercially available this decade
IBM Watson as
an AI Physician
Tattooed sensors
monitor heart, brain
and other activity
Ingestible
imaging
devices
Bionics
Source: Daniel Kraft, MD
8. How are we taught to think in
school?
Let’s take 30 steps…
Linear: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5…30
Exponential: 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32…
until 1,073,741,824 (i.e. 2³⁰)!!!