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Technology Transformation
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Technology Transformation
- Iphone / Smartphone growth
- Technology companies entering other sectors like Transportation, Medicine, Entertainment.
- Large cash reserves for research & development.
- Bring a software perspective
- What might happen, but not necessarily what will happen.
- What
- Significant changes to the way we get around
- Own personal chauffeur.
- Uses radar, camera and lasers to map surroundings. See more than a human.
- No need to change road infrastructure
- No steering wheel, accelerator, brakes, or gauges. Just on/off
- Google 1.2 million miles of testing - only accident were people driven cars.
- Apple now working on a car for release in 2019
- Tesla to have self driving car within 3 to 4 years
- Taxi, Rental, Uber - significant change
- No more taxi drivers
- Difference between taxi and rental will disappear
- Car sharing - For example in condo complexes
- Many will choose to use temporary rentals rather than own.
- A Japanese company expects to have a fleet of self driving taxis operational by 2020 for the Olympic games.
- Electric self driving busses.
- Transportation of Goods
- Self driving trucks will replace truck drivers
- Volvo working on self driving garbage trucks with robotic can pickup
- Delivery drones
- Implications
- 33,000 highway fatalities, 3.9 million injuries and 24 million damaged vehicles, cost 870 billion.
- Auto body shops will disappear and insurance will see major reductions
- Cities will see significant drop in fines from traffic violations
- Connected cars will help to reduce traffic jams & spread traffic around.
- Reduced fuel consumption
- Cars could be cheaper with less need for injury prevention and other components.
- More electric motors with recharging while you travel
- Elderly will always have transportation - no loss of their car.
- No more DMV for driving licenses
- Welcome to Dick Tracy’s Comic - 2 way radio watch appeared 1946. With video 1964
- Next smartphone may be a watch.
- Biometrics security - Facial recognition, fingerprint, heart rhythm
- Technology is about to change Restaurant business
- Panera has an app for ordering and paying for
- McDonald’s testing kiosk and online ordering & paying
- Tests suggest we will pay more when ordering online.
- From touch to Voice
- Voice interaction - answer questions, appointment reminders, notifications, monitors - health, spending, etc. Advice
- Current - Google Now, Apple Siri, Microsoft Cortana, Amazon Echo
- More conversational, portable and anticipate needs. If going out it will check weather and let us know if rain is expected.
- Demonstration
- Social Robots
- Jibo, Buddy, Pepper from Softbank - sold 1,000 units in less than a minute.
- Elder care - monitor, engage,
- May replace pets
- Internet of Things
- Multiple interconnected devices
- Home security & monitors - detect your presence.
- Biometric monitors
- Home appliances
- Technology companies heavily investing in research and development.
- Testing & Monitoring
- Google contact lens for blood sugar
- Subcutaneous device with watch to monitor blood sugar
- Temporary adhesive patches
- Smart watches & fitness for heart rate, sleep, blood oxygenation, etc
- Robotic interpretation of images
- Smartphone
- app for detecting skin cancers.
- for eye examination used in 3rd world countries.
- Plugable devices like ultrasound and thermometer
- Detect mood and offer advice.
- Diagnostics
- 10% of death due to diagnostic error.
- IBM Deep Blue - use data from medical records, images and personal health monitors to predict or diagnose symptoms.
- Implications
- Personal digital assistants will act as reminders and coaches. Example slow down eating.
- Drs will become more health coaches - confirming software based diagnostics and implementing treatment plans.
- 3D Virtual Reality headsets
- Video Gaming first type of entertainment
- Sports - will be able to see things from the perspective of a Quarterback. With eye tracking will be able to see where the QB is looking.
- Start with sports with helmets - Football and Hockey where cameras can be embedded
- Eye tracking to see where the person is looking
- Brain wave tracking to get an idea of what they are thinking
- May be some resistance because other teams will gain me information about each player
- Movies will be more like games. Will be able to become a character so see things from a character's perspective. Already a film festival for showcasing Virtual Reality movies.
- Travel
- Virtual tour guide.
- Display labels on the things we look at.
- Shopping - virtual stores. Select things virtually - impact but not replace physical stores. See how clothing looks on you
- Real Estate - virtual visits to properties. May even be able to see home with their own furniture.
- 3-D printing
- Things we buy will be printed and personalized. A toy with a child’s name embedded into it
- Replacement parts. - scan and reprint
- Design and print 3D arts and crafts
- Printed foods at home and restaurants
- Print a building
- Robots - perform physical actions
- already, but large industry with high volume & resource to program.
- Baxter - programmable by moving the arms $25,000
- Learn by human demonstration
- Fulfillments orders
