This document discusses emerging technologies and their implications. It covers the following key points in 3 sentences: The document explores how sensors and connectivity in everyday objects ("spimes") will create a world where everything is aware and connected. It discusses how these "spime networks" will transform communication and data access between machines and humans. The emergence of these technologies is seen as an ongoing process that will have profound and unpredictable effects on humanity and requires rethinking how groups will interact and what it means to be human.

1. Free to be human!
March 2010
Amsterdam

2. David Orban
twitter: @davidorban
Joi Ito

3. <start>

4. <0>

5. 27 > 100

6. What Do We Know?
Gaspa

8. n-1 = 50%

9. Nurture
Michael Filion

10. Ignorance
Questions
Answers
Kevin Kelly - kk.org

11. </0>

12. <1> What
<2> Who
<3> Why
<4> How
<5> When
<6> Wgh

13. <1>

14. What

15. Fred Armitage
William Gibson
The future is already here. It is just not evenly distributed yet

16. Spime = SPace + tIME
Bruce Sterling

17. What’s On Your Radar
Banksy / Robbiedangerous

18. Evolving Devices

19. 1

20. A Granular World
IPv4 ≈ 10 9
IPv6 ≈ 10 38
Atoms ≈ 10 80

21. Drawing Fine Lines
Wonderlane

22. 2

23. Necessary Autonomy
Platform Orders of magnitude
PCs ≈ 108
Mobiles ~ Humans ≈ 109
Spimes > 1012

24. Around Us Already
Ryan Harvey

25. 3

26. Network Evolution
Generation Isotropy Access
Web data knowledge
Web 2.0 applications social
Spimes sensors world

27. Redundancy Needed
NASA JPL

28. 4

29. Changing Dialog
Generation Bandwidth M2M Index
Industrial apps Kb/s 1%
Realtime Web Mb/s 10%
Spime Networks Gb/s 99%+
M2M index: M2M/M2H, communications among machine in proportion to those with humans

30. Decision making
µµ

31. 5

32. Not blind anymore
Object # sensors
Mobile phone 10
Car 50-100

33. Awareness
Volvo

34. </1>

35. <2>

36. Who

37. kandinski
Bruce Sterling
Forget trying to pass for normal

45. Humanity+

46. </2>

47. <3>

48. Why

49. rosetechven.com
David Rose
Integrity is the most important value

50. The Anthropocene
1% 2%
terrestrial humans
vertebrates pets
in the wild cattle
99% 98%
10.000 BC Today

51. Unsustainable
badjonni

52. Old Methods...
Seamus Murray

53. ...Same As Today...
Marcin Wichary

54. ...Radically New
The Alieness

55. Sensing The Technium
Nite Owl

56. Sense The World
bazusa

57. Adapt
aussiegirl

58. </3>

59. <4>

60. Examples

61. claren44
Larry Smarr
Failure of imagination is a fundamental human defect

62. Current

63. • Spreading the Idea. Involve people.
First Quarter Action Plan

64. CO2 Spime
Collects CO2 levels
Communicates wirelessly
Visualizes collected data online

65. Social Energy meter

66. WideNoise
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67. Future

68. Transportation
A.M. Kuchling

69. 4G Communication
rmforall

70. Energy
joyseyshowaa

71. Quantified Self
I Don’t Know Maybe

72. </4>

73. <5>

74. When

75. Randy Stewart
Bre Pettis
Things are changing faster than we can die

76. A process, not an event
1 < IoT< 25

77. Advanced Collaboration
Foxtongue

78. </5>

79. <6>

80. What
should
happen

81. David Orban
Alex Lightman
In the future many groups will rule the world for 15 minutes

82. Strange Place And Time
aussiegirl

83. Planetary Co-evolution
will_hybrid

84. Free To Be Human
me’nthedogs

85. Humanity+
bingbing

86. </6>

87. <end>

88. humanityplus.org
singularityu.org
widetag.com

89. david@
widetag.com
singularityu.org
humanityplus.org
davidorban.com