Institute of Creative Technologies - future techs MA/MSc Creative Technologies Digital culture

1. Ins$tute
of
Crea$ve
Technologies
Futurology
aka
Back
to
the
Future
3
Dr
Tracy
Harwood
Senior
Research
Fellow
E:
tharwood@dmu.ac.uk
@tgharwood

2. Overview
• Technologies
of
science
fic$on
• Current
state
of
‘futuris$c’
technologies
• Back
to
the
Future
next
gen

3. Science
Fact
• Cornerstones
of
the
links
we
make
today
between
Fic$on
&
Fact
(Futurists)
–
– Isaac
Asimov
(Founda$on
Series,
Galac$c
Empire
series
and
Robot
series)
– Arthur
C
Clarke
(Space
Odyssey
series)
– Robert
A
Heinlein
(Starship
Troopers)

5. • Glasses
– vision
– augmenta$on
– communica$on
– virtual
reality
Specula$ve
Fic$on

7. Specula$ve
Fic$on
• Fuel
converter
– recycling
– waste
plas$cs
to
fuel
– bio-­‐fuel
– low
energy
vehicles

9. Specula$ve
Fic$on
• Time
machine

10. Specula$ve
Fic$on
• Wearables
– fashion
– protec$on
– communica$on
– diagnos$cs

11. • Virtual
greeter
– voice
– avatars
– robots
– holograms
Specula$ve
Fic$on

12. Specula$ve
Fic$on
• Hoverboard
– segway
– hoverboard
– drones
hTps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwSwZ2Y0Ops

13. Future:
next
gen
• 5
years
• 20
years
• 50
years
Ideas
and
thoughts?

14. Future:
next
gen
• Direct
vs
indirect
compe$$on
• Radical
vs
incremental
innova$on
• Available
resource
exploita$on
• Commercial
vs
societal
mandate
• People
vs
machines

15. An
ending
…
…
the
best
way
to
predict
future
is
to
create
it
…