2. The Role of Public Service
#ChangeAgents in
Exponential Times
#ChangeAgents = Leaders who “illuminate the way”
manage friction of stepping outside the status quo
5. This is our home
3.7 billion miles away
a “Pale Blue Dot”
the sunlight reflected from Earth took
5½ hours to reach Voyager I in 1990
6.
7. when Voyager I launched in 1977
4.2 billion humans lived on Earth
8. when Voyager I launched in 1977
4.2 billion humans lived on Earth
global GDP = 7.2 trillion USD
the Apple II went on sale that year
running at 1 MHz w/ 4 KB of RAM
9.
10. Voyager I traveled 3.7 billion miles by 1990
5.3 billion humans lived on Earth
11. Voyager I traveled 3.7 billion miles by 1990
5.3 billion humans lived on Earth
global GDP = 22 trillion USD
Windows 3.0 was released and
CERN launched the first web server at info.cern.ch
12.
13. by 2013 >850 million web servers online
7.1 billion humans lived on Earth
14. by 2013 >850 million web servers online
7.1 billion humans lived on Earth
global GDP = 75 trillion USD
7 billion global networked devices
4 billion TB of digital content globally
15.
16. by 2022, 75-300 billion networked devices
8 billion humans will live on Earth
17. by 2022, 75-300 billion networked devices
8 billion humans will live on Earth
global GDP = ?? trillion USD
7 billion humans online, more than 85% of the world
96 TB of digital content > all human eyes see/year
20. Public Service #ChangeAgents are needed
now more than ever
in Exponential Times
our Public Institutions must adapt
we need new Expertise & Experiments
21.
22. both Expertise & Experiments
have the root “ex peria” = out of danger
23. both Expertise & Experiments
have the root “ex peria” = out of danger
the U.S. representative democracy was
born from an Experiment in self-rule
“out of danger” came Experience
24.
25. Dr. Benjamin Franklin in 1787
after the signing of the Constitution:
… now at length I have the happiness to know
that it is a rising and not a setting Sun.
28. Abigail Adams to John Adams in 1775:
… How difficult the task to quench the fire and the
pride of private ambition, and to sacrifice ourselves
and all our hopes and expectations
to the public weal.
#PublicService Always
Has Challenges
29. Abraham Lincoln in 1863:
[W]e take increased devotion to that cause… that
government of the people, by the people, for the
people, shall not perish from the earth.
#PublicService Always
Has Challenges
30. the public
private sector public sector
academia non-profits
We The People, Building Bridges
The Importance of YOU
32. … But what is government itself, but the greatest of
all reflections on human nature? If men were angels,
no government would be necessary.
– The Federalists No. 51, 1788
We The People Must
Adapt #PublicService
34. mobility + APIs allow institutions to
open data for greater public interactions,
discussions and citizen-led remixing
The Importance of
#ChangeAgents
35. public can volunteer smartphones
as sensors collect data to inform policy
or lend computing cycles for hard problems
The Importance of
#ChangeAgents
36. machines that learn alongside
knowledge workers how can we use machine
recommendations to better aid us all?
The Importance of
#ChangeAgents
37. makers movement institutions must encourage
& empower “intrapreneurs” to
pioneer civic & social innovation
The Importance of
#ChangeAgents
38.
39. Carl Sagan in 1994:
Look again at that dot.
That's here. That's home.
41. That's us.
On it everyone you love,
everyone you know –
Everyone you ever heard of, every human being who
ever was, lived out their lives.
42. To me, it underscores
our responsibility to deal
more kindly with one another –
43. To me, it underscores
our responsibility to deal
more kindly with one another –
And to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the
only home we've ever known.
44. Thank You for Being
#ChangeAgents
in our Exponential
Times
