12 Inevitable Tech Forces That Will Shape Our Future - New book, The Inevitable - AI, Cognification - Hints of this over last 20 years - Already analyzing X-rays and legal documents - Perfect storm: neural networks + GPUs + big data - AI today can perform very specific functions - Artificial smartness (calculators, navigators, search); a utility - Create lots of types of AI based on lots of different types of (non human) minds - IQ as service (like electricity) - For startups: take x product, service, or industry and add AI - The more users, the smarter it gets - Baxter programmable robot - All productivity jobs will go to robots; robots will make new jobs for humans - Learning to work with new AIs will become a desirable skill - Creativity, science and innovation are inefficient processes (non productive jobs) - Vituality - VR isn't 1000x better than in the 80s but it is 1000x cheaper - VR is the next platform after smartphones - Immersion VR (Oculus) - Presence VR (Magic Leap) - Lo fi activity is swivel (cardboard) - Hi fi activity is roaming (room tracking) - The Internet of experiences; internet won't be a place but something you interact with - We'll go from watching to experiencing - Redirected walking and touch - VR will be the most social of social media - Founder of Second is creating a VR world to interact with people - Tracking - Anything that can be tracked will - Scanadu Tricorder - LifeChart: tracking biometric data over a lifetime - Anything that can be measured will be measured - A more civil way of tracking: co-veilence - Vanity trumps privacy - Believe in the impossible more often