Prepare for the Future: Tech Strategies You Need to Know (Part 2)

1. Prepare for the Future
Tech That You Need to Know
Jason Griffey
Affiliate Fellow
Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society
Harvard University
Part Two: Emerging Tech

2. Technologies
• Blockchain
• AI and Machine Learning
• Automation and Robotics

3. Blockchain

4. Bitcoin
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5. Decentralization

6. ledger
Date - Time - Identity - Transaction Details

7. ManyAuthors
VerifiedAuthorship
DistrustedAuthors
Decentralization
Robust Resistance To Manipulation
Validation For Ledger Entries

8. Block 43 Block 44
Hash
Block 45
Hash

9. ledger Database
Date
Time
Identity
Transaction

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11. smart

22. Three possibilities

23. Provenance
Metadata that reflects the chain of
ownership/possession of a
physical object.

24. Digital Provenance

25. Bibliographic
Metadata
Decentralized OCLC

26. Book
Metadata
Book
Metadata
Metadata
Update
Book
Metadata M

27. Digital First Sale

28. Problems

29. Centralization

32. Artificial Intelligence
& Machine Learning
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36. “Technology has helped productivity…
As it relates to artificial intelligence
taking over American jobs, I think we’re
so far away from that, it’s not even on
my radar screen…I think it’s 50 or 100
more years.”

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38. Photo by OnInnovation - http://flic.kr/p/7B4Ufs
“With artificial intelligence we are
summoning the demon. You know all those
stories where there’s the guy with the
pentagram and the holy water and he’s
like… yeah he’s sure he can control the
demon… doesn’t work out.”

39. Photo by OnInnovation - http://flic.kr/p/7B4Ufs

40. Tools = Agents
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41. Photo by Clearly Ambiguous - http://flic.kr/p/31nkY

43. Medical Diagnosis
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44. –Geoffrey Hinton, University of Toronto
“I think that if you work as a radiologist you are like
Wile E. Coyote in the cartoon. You’re already over the
edge of the cliff, but you haven’t yet looked down.
There’s no ground underneath. It’s just completely
obvious that in five years deep learning is going to do
better than radiologists. It might be ten years.”

48. Photo by nathanmac87 - http://flic.kr/p/cx2Hvd

50. Photo by Mocks 108 - http://flic.kr/p/dEFhLT

62. Deepfake

64. Photo by iwouldificould - http://flic.kr/p/apgLT5
Robots

75. Conclusion
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76. “We have just started to
make a technological society.
The technological changes in
the next 20 years will dwarf
those of the last 20 years. It
will almost be like nothing at
all has happened yet.”
— Kevin Kelly

79. Douglas Adams said...

80. Douglas Adams said...
1. Anything that is in the world when
you’re born is normal and ordinary
and is just a natural part of the way
the world works.

81. Douglas Adams said...
1. Anything that is in the world when
you’re born is normal and ordinary
and is just a natural part of the way
the world works.
2. Anything that’s invented between
when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is
new and exciting and revolutionary
and you can probably get a career in
it.

82. Douglas Adams said...
1. Anything that is in the world when
you’re born is normal and ordinary
and is just a natural part of the way
the world works.
2. Anything that’s invented between
when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is
new and exciting and revolutionary
and you can probably get a career in
it.
3. Anything invented after you’re thirty-
five is against the natural order of
things.

83. J A S O N G R I F F E Y
P H O TO C R E D I T: C I N D I B LY B E R G
F O U N D E R / P R I N C I PA L C O N S U LTA N T
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M E A S U R E T H E F U T U R E
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F E L L O W
B E R K M A N K L E I N C E N T E R F O R I N T E R N E T & S O C I E T Y
H A RVA R D U N I V E R S I T Y
J G R I F F E Y @ C Y B E R . H A RVA R D . E D U
H T T P : / / J A S O N G R I F F E Y. N E T
T H E L I B R A RY B O X P R O J E C T
H T T P : / / L I B R A RY B O X . U S