This is the edited PDF of my presentation at the Online Information Conference 2012 see http://www.online-information.co.uk/static/programme-overview Everybody is talking about 'data is the new oil' aka big-data. SoLoMo (social local mobile) is the battle cry of the day. Human-machine interfaces are rapidly evolving and may quickly become commonplace (think Google Glasses, MSFT Kinect), artificial intelligence is the geek-phrase-of-the-day, and Kurzweil says the singularity is near/here. So how will our world really change in the next 5 years, i.e. the way we communicate, get information, create, buy and sell, travel, live and learn? What are the biggest threats and the hottest opportunities - not just in financial terms, but also in societal and human terms? Futurist Gerd Leonhard will share his foresights and explore the key 'networked society' scenarios.

1. Gerd Leonhard
Futurist, Author
& CEO
TheFuturesAgency
#askgerd *ask me anything!
Big Data - Big Mobile . Big Social.
Big bucks - Big noise - Big machines?
The Future of the Internet

4. Us
Us
D a t a

5. Next 3 years: SoLoMo Re-Imagination of...everything:)
Source: Mary Meeker State of the Internet Report 2012 / KPCB

6. * Meme started by Clive Humby AMA

7. Big Money @ Big Data = Big Temptation

8. Big Data: we must do better than Big Oil!

9. Big Data: we must do better than Big Oil!

10. “If you take more out than you put in
the ecosystem eventually fails”
Tim O’Reilly

11. The center of growth will shift

12. Get ready to become a really global brain;)

13. “If you don’t measure the right thing,
you don’t do the right thing”
Economist Joseph Stiglitz

14. From stuff to bits

15. The future is already here!
Cloud-Everything

16. First media, now... stuff
Data, Design and Emotions become the real assets

17. Brands: The Intangibles take over: Likes. Love. Sentiments
Image via Carola Riegler on Flickr

18. But ‘Liking’ is a lot more complicated than this...

19. Touching
data
changes us
Mobile devices are becoming our external brains

20. Do you agree or disagree?
We will be able to (re)-engineer ourselves - and our planet, too

21. What purpose should ‘amazing technology’ have?
Source: YouTube ADmented Reality - Google Glasses Remixed with Google Ads

22. The future is already here!
Google Glass 1955?

23. Human-to-
Data-to-Human
Interfaces
i.e. Sense-Making

25. The future is already here!
How will humans interface with very smart,
fast, friendly and powerful data ie machines?
data oil

26. Real machine intelligence is coming within reach

27. What will
define
‘human’
5 years
from now?

28. NOT Science Fiction?

29. ‘Internet Inside’ ETA: 3-5 years

30. Language barriers becoming a thing of the past...?
Source: Youtube/Docomo

31. Re-Imagining Human-Data Relationships

32. From centralized to de-centralized

33. Locked Loose Liquid

34. The Future of Data: Decline of
Empires, Rise of Networks

35. The new ‘inter-relating’

36. The new ‘inter-relating’...
Rise of the ‘Global Village’
Ai Wei-Wei Gangnam style on Youtube @aiww

37. New Data
New Media Ecosystem
Ecosystem
New Energy
Ecosystem
New Education
Ecosystem New Money
Ecosystem

39. Networked Business Models - or bust

40. From independent to interdependent
Video via Youtube, Tiffany Shain: Connected the Film

41. The Big Data Society?

42. http://www.wired.com/autopia/2010/09/bump-is-a-social-network-for-your-license-plate/

43. Totally just the tip of the iceberg...

44. Google
Facebook knows what
we say - but Google
Facebook
knows what we think:)

45. Every thought in the open...?

47. Data spills are becoming increasingly likely

48. Do you agree or disagree:
We can rely on algorithms to measure most of what and who matters

49. The ‘hedonic treadmill’ will get old :=)

50. But the Publicy Default is accelerating

51. But regardless of value, control and trust
we will probably start paying real $ for privacy
Source: Embleton Banksy on Flickr

52. Sense-Making | Curation | Filtering

54. The future is already here!
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