1. Social implications
of innovation
Laurent Haug
Founder, Lift conference, Lift lab
laurent@liftconference.com

2. Social implications
of innovation
1. Innovation & society
2. Examples of technical, business, and social innovations
3. Take aways

3. Innovation changes society

4. Society changes innovation

5. The problem with this co-evolution
• It is...
• not evenly distributed
• adopted slowly
• not well understood
• not a truth but a discussion
• can’t be ignored anymore
• hard to anticipate

6. Education in 2000
(1910, paleofuture.com)

7. The visiophone
(1939, paleofuture.com)

8. Apple prediscts Apple in 1997
(1987, paleofuture.com)

9. Clothes in 2000?
(1950, paleofuture.com)

10. Examples of recent
(and upcoming)
technical, business, and
social innovations

11. Technical innovation
• Communicating objects
• Online convergence (& divergence)
• Open source

12. Technical innovation
• Communicating objects
• Online convergence (& divergence)
• Open source

14. Poken, www.doyoupoken.com

15. SPC-101c
More on liftconference.com/videos

16. QB1 robot

17. QB1 robot

18. QB1 robot

19. Playmegaphone.com

20. Jury Hahn, PlayMegaPhone
More on liftconference.com/videos

21. Technical evolutions
• Communicating objects
• Online convergence (& divergence)
• Open source

26. Technical evolutions
• Communicating objects
• Online convergence (& divergence)
• Open source

28. Business evolutions
• Network is the new job security
• Private life invades work
• New exchanges and currencies

30. Private life invades work
• A typical user spends 80% of his or her time communicating with just four other people.
• People are using different communications technologies (fixed-line calls, mobile calls,
texting, IM,VOiP) in distinct and divergent ways.
• There is a flattening in voice communication and an increase in written channels.
• Instead of work invading private life, private communications are
invading the workplace.
• People generally do not work while on the move: hotel rooms and airports are not seen
as an appropriate environment for substantive work and are mainly used for e-mail.
• Migrants are the most advanced users of communications technology.
The economist, “Home truths about telecoms”

33. Social innovations
• Transparency & openness
• Governments behind changes
• Conflict of value systems

38. Take aways

39. 20y = 8y

40. Important to unlearn

41. Solution is to anticipate

42. Where did the future
go?

43. “Intelligence is the
capacity to stand
uncertainties”
I. Kant

44. “21st century
analphabetism is the
incapacity to unlearn”
A. Toffler