1. TEDx Trieste
the CLOUD
a new Sustainable
Source of Innovation

2. Technology
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3. Sustainable Growth vs. Saturation
S curves get old
New Evolution,
New Development phase
Performance
Return reduction New technology
Evolution
Development phase
Take-off
Existing
technology
Research,
Invention phase
Time
Each new TECHNOLOGICAL substrate is more
efficient than the previous one 3

4. EPHEMERALIZATION:
all progressions are from
material to abstract
R. Buckminster Fuller
4 Synergetics 2, 1922

5. How to dematerialise
Space
Time Information
Energy
Matter
Computation

6. A planetary network
“…a world network of economic and
psychic affiliations is being woven at
ever increasing speed….
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Le Phénomène Humain, 1955

7. Humans as Informavore
• Q. In the knowledge age, where
does our time go?
• A. From the search for food to the
search for information
Humans as Informavore (Miller, 1983)
Search
Farm
Build

8. In the beginning there was Internet
INTERNET

9. Complexity
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10. Ford T‐Model

11. and than the CLOUD COMPUTING
materializes
EDISON 2.0:
The first CLOUD was about ELECTRICITY
The second CLOUD is about COMPUTING

12. the CLOUD
the birth of
Anything‐As‐A‐Service
Iaas, Paas, Saas, Daas, Xaas

13. minds
and
machines
start to get interconnected

14. a new Utility for Humans and Machines
Enterprise/
Device
Personal CLOUD
CLOUD

15. The Cloud : a digital Exoskeleton
It magnify IDEAs
On Demand and in
a Pay Per Use way

16. The dawn of a New Smart World
Transforming Bits of Data at the Edge
of the Network into Actionable
Information & Knowledge in the
Users’ Hands will bring about the
biggest change in industry since the
steam engine!

17. Re‐Thinking
•Products
•Value Add
•Business Model
•Business Processes

18. TEDx Trieste
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