2. Let us do some flip learning
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3. Future way of getting information
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―One of the things about learning how to read — we
have been doing a lot of consuming of information
through our eyes and so on — that may be a very
inefficient channel. So my prediction is that we‘re
going to ingest information. You‘re going to swallow a
pill and know English. You‘re going to swallow a pill
and know Shakespeare. The way to do it is through
the bloodstream; once it‘s in your bloodstream, it
basically goes through and gets into the brain and
when it knows it‘s in the brain it deposits the
information in the right places. I‘ve been hanging
around with Ed Boyden and Hugh Herr and a number
of people… This isn‘t far-fetched.‖
Nicholas Negroponte, founder, MIT Media
Lab, speaking in Session 1 at TED2014
4. What is the difference between
virtual and physical worlds?
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―The seamless integration of our physical and
virtual worlds. This will bring richer experiences
and connectivity to the global population.‖
Phil Wiser, chief technology officer, Hearst
5. We will be connected
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―I hope it will be a rejection of technology that
makes us more isolated from one another and
more easily surveilled. I also hope we will have a
sudden, dawning realization that we forgot to
read books for a while and came to regret it. And I
hope we will finally learn to accept our own
shortcomings as a species, not in a way that
results in complacency but, instead, a renewed
commitment to making the planet a more just
place to be an animal, human or otherwise.‖
Laurel Braitman, writer, TED Fellow
6. Progress in Medicine
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―Progress in medicine, global access to
information and a global age pyramid that is
already turning upside-down will create a global
movement towards an increased demand for
good health care. This in turn will increase life
expectancy and drive innovation. This re-
enforcing circle will change societies‘ views on
health care. Whereas today it is seen as a cost
that needs to be controlled — which potentially
slows down progress — it might become the
global driving force of innovation and
humanity, replacing other areas of public
investment focus.‖
7. Disease Diagnosis
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―What will blow my mind in the next 30 years is
the ability to diagnose a disease before you know
that something is wrong with you, treat it with
medicines designed specifically for you and
eradicate it so it never happens again. The
concept of connected health, wearable
technology and ingested medicines are all
pointing us in that direction. The ability for
someone to tie it all together, tailored for the
individual is what is mind blowing.‖
Doreen Lorenzo, president, Quirky
8. We will understand everything better
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We will see the big picture with more clarity and
resolution than ever before. Whether for good or
ill (and surely it will be both), ever greater legibility
of everything around us, between us, and even in
us, and in every system from the physical to the
social, financial, commercial, environmental and
more is going to transform our relationship to the
world, each other and to every system of which
we are part. [Read more about "The Legible
Planet" in this separate piece, written just for
TED.]
Andrew Blau, managing director, Deloitte
9. Disease and Diagnosis
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―We will have the opportunity to have an approved chip implanted in
ourselves that will be a sensor, grabbing health data for early detection
of disease or sickness, show our location to those we wish and provide
all kinds of new real-time data. This will roll out with early adopters, and
over time gain general acceptance.
As a society, we won‘t really care if insurance companies have early
access to our health data, as their costs will decline and they will be
better at being fair, less litigious and more affordable. Thus we will grant
several companies (such as tomorrow‘s Google, Facebook, Twitter)
access to even more personal data, and integrate their offerings into our
day-to-day living. We won‘t at first like it, but the Supreme Court will
allow police and rescue officials a reasonable-basis standard for their
grabbing our microchip data (DUI tests roadside, etc).
Also, perhaps related, we will be able to listen to live music, at any
hour, all around the world, wherever we are, through some inner-ear
adapter not unlike what we have with today‘s Google Glass. We will be
able to hear street musicians from Ghana and live music in a bar from
Reykjavik at lunchtime in San Francisco. Live music will bring the next
generation closer together, with promises of global peace.‖
Gregory Miller, co-founder, Spacebar, former managing
director, Google.org
10. Dreams
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―We‘ll understand what creates dreams — not just
‗it‘s your brain cleaning up its cache for the day,‘
but really understand why we dream in vivid
detail, why the stories make perfect sense while
we are dreaming, but are nonsensical upon
awakened-review, and what occurrences in the
day were selected to be dreamed about that
evening. It will all be understood, and no longer
will we think, ‗Wow, that was so bizarre that I
dreamed about some man I‘ve never seen
before, playing golf, which I could care less
about, and he asked me to marry him in front of a
crowd of 50 people, in a place I‘ve never been or
seen.‘‖
Geraldine Carter, co-founder, director, Climate
11. Three Choices
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―Humans face three choices in the exponential growth
of information in the next 30 years:
1.To deny the power of technology to counter the
feared effects of the information explosion (like certain
religions today).
2. To delegate more to machines and live a more
hedonistic lifestyle (chasing leisure makes us more
lazy).
3. To see the power of new tools in the explosion of
data to unlock the promise of humans (through
augmenting human capability).‖
Jim Hackett, Steelcase
12. Phtosynth and Its applications
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―How will our minds be blown in the next 30
years? Well, that‘s quite a long time, given the
acceleration in history. Still, I‘ll be brave and make
six hypotheses.‖ [Read all six of them in this
separate piece, written just for TED.]
Blaise Agüera y Arcas, Google
Photosynth
(https://www.ted.com/talks/blaise_aguera_y_a
rcas_demos_photosynth)
You search and then the machine remembers
and connects.
13. Autonomous Vehicles
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―What is next? Perhaps counterintuitively, I‘m guessing it‘s a visionary idea from
the late 1930s that‘s been revived every decade since: autonomous vehicles.
Now you‘re thinking, give me a break. How can a fancy version of cruise control
be profound? Well, much of our world has been designed around roads and
transportation. These were as essential to the success of the Roman Empire as
the interstate highway to the prosperity and development of the US.
Today, these roads that interconnect our world are dominated by cars and trucks
that have largely unchanged for 100 years. Although perhaps not obvious
today, autonomous vehicles will be the key technology that enables us to
redesign our cities and by extension civilization. Here‘s why. Once they become
ubiquitous, each year vehicles will save tens of thousands of lives in the United
States alone, and a million globally. Automotive energy consumption and air
pollution will be cut dramatically. Much of the road congestion in and out of our
cities will disappear.
They will enable compelling new concepts in how we design cities, work and the
way we live. We will get where we‘re going faster and society will recapture vast
amounts of lost productivity now spent sitting in traffic, basically polluting. But
why now? Why do we think this is ready? Because over the last 30 years people
from outside the automotive industry have spent countless billions creating the
needed miracles, but for entirely different purposes. It took folks like
DARPA, universities and companies completely outside of the automotive
industry to notice if you were clever about it, autonomy could be done now.‖
Bran Ferren, co-chairman, Applied Minds, speaking in session 2 of
TED2014
14. Personalization
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―People will live in a ‗bubble‘ of personalized experience, where what each of us
sees and hears of the world will be different from anyone else. This will result
from a combination of factors, most notably personalized advertising and the
gradual evolution of our personal electronic devices.
By 2040, we will be surrounded by personalized advertisements/offerings being
constantly pushed to us; many surfaces will become active and display content
based on who is looking at them at a given moment. They may even be able to
simultaneously steer a different image to each observer.
We will also deliberately augment our experience of the world with our personal
electronic devices. ‗Glass‘-like devices which project images into our eyes will be
joined by unobtrusive audio and haptic feedback devices that we will use to
inform, remind and connect ourselves.
The net effect will be that each of us will fundamentally experience a different
view of reality. In many ways that will be to our advantage, allowing us to live
more informed and potentially more connected lives. But this individualized
experience may also bring a risk of social fragmentation.
The explosion of media choices over the past 30 years has led to narrowcasting
that in turn allows us to consume media that reinforce our beliefs and
interests, leading to the increased polarization of our society. We may find in the
next 30 years, when each of us has a different experience of the augmented
world, that we will further fragment and each only see that which reinforces our
world view.
This seems like an unavoidable future based on where technology is
heading. I hope we can find a way to accentuate the positives, share
experiences and viewpoints, and prevent us from being increasingly
15. Energy
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―In 30 years, we could have our minds totally blown
by what a high-energy planet would be like. if energy
were clean, cheap and dense, we could lift everyone
out of poverty, desalinate as much water as we
need, incinerate trash completely so we‘d have no
waste and do many other amazing things limited only
by our imaginations. We‘d be able to leave large
portions of the earth to nature and still live high
quality, modern lives on an ecologically vibrant planet.
This isn’t inevitable though. It will take
breakthroughs in energy technologies and major
investments in scaling them up. Government, civil
society and business will have to prioritize
innovation and be realistic about the energy
needs of 9 billion people living modern lives.”
Rachel Pritzker, president, Pritzker Innovation
Fund
16. Pervasive Technology
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―I‘m so astonished by the last 30 years that it‘s hard to imagine what might blow
our minds in the next 30. That‘s how pervasive technology has become for many
of us.
Nevertheless, if we agree that we (in the developed world) enjoy a richness of
resources like:
– ever-greater storage and compression power
– ever tinier and more powerful chips
– a growing Internet of things (energy, lighting, cars, medical devices, quantified
self devices for health)
– a proliferation of robotics applications
Then what *should* happen in the next 30 years is that this richness evolves and
extends to places that today stumble along on 2G, dialup, or nothing at all. I‘m
optimistic about broadband over power lines and by balloon.
I know, though — shoulda, woulda, coulda, right? So I think that what will truly
astonish me is if we humans bring ourselves to collectively care enough to *make
technology pervasive and useful for everyone throughout the world in
accordance with their needs and desires*.
What would be astonishing is if we can put aside excessive margins and
corporate amenities to the degree it takes to do the world as a whole good.
I love what access to technology can do — I just want it to be evenly distributed.
That would blow my mind, and I bet I‘m not alone.‖
Karen Wickre, editorial director, Twitter
17. Connected World
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―In the next 30 years, everyone in the world will be
connected. Even the most remote communities that
today can only be reached on foot will be in contact
with the rest of the world thanks to mobile
connections and delivery systems. Though I don‘t
expect that our traditional infrastructure
(roads, landlines, postal services) will reach all
corners of the earth, new modes of transportation will
proliferate, allowing anyone to reach anyone else.
Unmanned Ariel Vehicles (UAVs) or drones are just
one such mode of transport. Recently, with the
support of the Wasserman Foundation, IDEO.org
explored how drones could play a role in last-mile
health delivery. We see an astoundingly bright future
for drones, one that recasts them from agents of war
to agents of change.‖
Jocelyn Wyatt, co-lead, executive
director, IDEO.org
18. China
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―A democratic China with a GDP that exceeds America‘s.
A geopolitical landscape that will see a return to inter-state warfare as
dictators push back against the tide of democracy in a desperate
attempt to hang on. Unfortunately, that won‘t mean the end of intra-state
warfare either. Those wars will continue, unabated.
The disappearance of small island developing states like the Maldives
due to climate change.
Sitting in traffic, but not driving; instead working in one‘s ‗car-office‘ with
a 100 gigabit wireless connection.
Thinking it‘s normal to speak to a machine; Siri is only the tip of the
iceberg. ―Her‖ is already here.
And, since I‘m Cambodian-American, the total transformation of
Cambodia from a country where one political leader has been in charge
for nearly a quarter of a century to a pluralistic society where good
governance and human rights are the norm. Hope springs eternal.‖
Sophal Ear, professor, author, speaker, US Naval postgraduate
school
19. Search and Internet
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―Five to ten years from now, search engines will be based not just on
looking for combinations of words and links but actually on reading for
understanding the billions of pages on the web and in books. So you‘ll
be walking along, Google will pop up, and say, ‗Mary, you expressed
concern to me a month ago that your glutathione supplement wasn‘t
getting past the blood/brain barrier. Well, new research came out 13
seconds ago that shows a whole new approach to taking glutathione; let
me summarize it for you.‘
20 years from now, we‘ll have nanobots — another exponential trend is
the shrinking of technology — that go into our brain through the
capillaries — and basically connect our synthetic neocortex and the
cloud, providing an extension of our neocortex. Now today you have a
computer in your phone but if you need 10,000 computers for a few
seconds to do a complex search, you can access that for a second or
two in the cloud. In the 2030s you‘ll be able to connect to that directly
from your brain. I ‗m walking along, there‘s Chris Anderson, he‘s coming
my way, I‘d better think of something clever to say. I‘ve got three
seconds — my 300 million modules in my neocortex won‘t cut it — I
need a billion more. I‘ll be able to access that in the cloud. Our thinking
then will be a hybrid of biological and non-biological thinking.‖
Ray Kurzweil, inventor, futurist, CEO, KurzweilAI, speaking in
session 8 of TED2014