Michell Zappa discusses technological imperatives of inherence, efficiency, and complexity that drive continued technological advancement. She outlines three scenarios that may emerge from these imperatives: (1) "Built in Time" involving rapidly deployable 3D printed structures, (2) "Extended Senses" through devices augmenting human perception and cognition, and (3) "DIY Army" using widely available designs and materials for weapons and surveillance. Zappa concludes by emphasizing the need to envision potential technological issues before they arise.

1. Michell Zappa

3. Solving problems
that don’t (yet) exist.

5. GPS

6. GPS

7. 1 2 3
3 days of content uploaded every minute.

8. TECHNOLOGICAL IMPERATIVES
Inherence Efficiency Complexity Inevitability

9. INHERENCE
Technology wants to be part of us.

12. Anything useful that
“ we make is technology.
— Kevin Kelly
Founding executive editor, WIRED Magazine

13. EFFICIENCY
Technology wants to be faster.

14. COST
SPEED

15. 2012
2008
CPU × FSB RAM SSD Mbps

16. COMPLEXITY
Technology creates itself out of itself.

18. 802.11 NiMH Kernel A-GPS Touchscreens Gyrosco
Video camera RAM Proximity sensor EDGE Triangulation
Lightning USB TCP/IP Cloud GSM CDMA
Video camera Li-Ion App store Social networking LTE
LED MMS IPS SIM NFC Gestures
SMS TFT-LCD Bluetooth LCD HSDPA
Glonass Internet Compass Multi-touch QWERTY GUI
XMPP GPS Email LED Wi-Fi

19. 802.11 NiMH Kernel A-GPS Touchscreens Gyrosco
Video camera RAM Proximity sensor EDGE Triangulation
Lightning USB TCP/IP Cloud GSM CDMA
Video camera Li-Ion App store Social networking LTE
LED MMS IPS SIM NFC Gestures
SMS TFT-LCD Bluetooth LCD HSDPA
Glonass Internet Compass Multi-touch QWERTY GUI
XMPP GPS Email LED Wi-Fi

23. INEVITABILITY
If it is possible, it is necessary.

27. AI Biotech
Manufacturing
Nanotech Ubicomp

28. “SCI-FI SCAFFOLDING”

30. Faces & smiles

35. Ubiquity
Facial recognition
Object recognition
Computation

36. “UBICAM”

37. Knows where you are
Knows who you are with
Knows what to focus on
Knows what matters to you
Records & publishes automatically.

39. “UBICAM”

40. “UBICAM”

41. “UBICAM”

42. Ubiquity
Facial recognition
Object recognition
Computation

44. #1: “BUILT IN TIME”

46. CONTOUR CRAFTING

47. REPRAP

48. PARAMETRIC DESIGN

49. PARAMETRIC DESIGN

50. PARAMETRIC DESIGN

51. PARAMETRIC DESIGN

52. Built rapidly
Adapted to the terrain
Autonomously
Distributed

54. #2: “EXTENDED SENSES”

60. Cognitive Threat Warning System

61. Mind-reading neuroprosthetics
Microscopic flying robots
Cognitive threat identification

63. #3: “DIY ARMY”

75. DIY weapons
DIY drones
DIY surveillance
Anonymous transactions

76. #1: “BUILT IN TIME”
#2: “EXTENDED SENSES”
#3: “DIY ARMY”

77. Solving problems
that don’t (yet) exist.

78. Thank you.
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