So disruption, is going to be the topic for the hour. Well, let’s get started!
Let me give you a few scenarios first.
Passengers
Passengers, the 2016 American science fiction film, features an Autodoc, an automated medical diagnostics and treatment pod, which shows its users how much time they have left to live and is capable of diagnosing and treating them.
Ex Machina
Ex Machina, the 2015 science fiction thriller, tells us the story of a breathtaking, AI run intelligent humanoid robot, who compels its tester to fall in love with her and manipulates him to its benefit.
Transcendence
Transcendence, the 2014 American science fiction thriller, has a protagonist whose consciousness survives his body's death in a technological form, connects to the internet, grows in capability and even spearheads the development of ground-breaking technologies in various fields, finally creating an organic body identical to his old one.
These were pieces of fiction that Hollywood offered us in the past 3 years. Fiction as in make-believe.
But are they really make-believe?
3D Printed heart that changed life of a 4 year old
IBM Watson’s AI enabled Doctor who could predict disease above 90% accuracy
The DaVinci Surgical System who had done over 2 lakhs surgeries
Sophia- social humanoid robot who was given citizenship by Saudi Arabia
Nadine- and many other Human like bots in development
Neural Lace, which aims to make implants for the human brain that can wirelessly interface with a computer- a better integration between man and machine (Elon Musk-Tesla-Automated cars)
But let’s keep those aside for now.
And look at what exactly the trends predicted for the next years are.
AI
Adaptive Security
Intelligent Apps
Intelligent Things
Blockchain
Virtual Reality
Don’t think Gartner’s is a reliable source?
Here’s what they predicted in the years 2013 and 2014.
Story of Kodak: camera film company
1996, one of top 5 companies
2012, filed for bankruptcy
The tidal wave of digital photography drowned out Kodak
These were pieces of fiction that Hollywood offered us in the past 3 years. Fiction as in make-believe.
But are they really make-believe?
Adapting the change is required to sustain.
Google shifted from Mobile First to AI First world
Be quick and reflexive in the face of change. but HOW?
But you need to adapt.
Break your echo chamber
If your connections know only what you know and your social feeds are filled with what you are familiar with, you are in an Echo Chamber.
Unconscious incompetence
You represent the cream of lakhs of students in the state, here have done the first step to break your echo chambers.
Subscribe for relevant social feeds in your areas of interest
Join offline and online communities
Follow the top guns of your field of interest
Udemy
Coursera
FAYA:80
Techmyrmidons
SingularityU
Fear of Failure
So I told you about how the digital photography wave killed the Kodak company.
But you know what the funniest part here is?
KODAK invented the first digital camera!
Steven Sasson, the Kodak engineer was asked to hide away his invention
Kodak was aware, but they were afraid
Scared to move away from familiar territories
In this world of change, staying stagnant is guaranteed failure
Develop both the mindset and skillset
Fluid intelligence, not by-hearting theories
The bigger picture and contextualised concepts- NOT knowledge in isolation
You should be able to connect everything to everything else
The skills that you actually should be nurturing are those that can build a strong basement by learning how to relate all the subjects together, to look at the bigger picture rather than being cocooned in one domain alone. Nothing in technology works in isolation. Understanding concepts in their contexts will help you when you are required to shift paths. Social skills to interact and share are also imperative in today’s world.
CoP: A community of practice is a group of people who share a concern or a passion for something they do, and learn how to do it better as they interact regularly. This definition reflects the fundamentally social nature of human learning.
The old traditional way of thinking about the learning theory comes from the assumption that it is something with a beginning and an end and has to be taught by somebody in an isolated teaching environment. Community of practice is a more modern way of thinking about the learning theory, which emphasises learning as a social process, with the majority of our learning occurring through the experience of living our daily life.
Active tech communities like FAYA:80, SingualrityU, BIG, MU Learn
Alvin Toffler quote “The illiterate of the 21st century”
Learn, Unlearn and Relearn