Page 1 What Have You Done Tomorrow?H o w t o m a k e s e n s e o f a n d p r e p a r e f o r a n u n c e r t a i n f u t u r e
Volker Hirsch @vhirsch
HR Vision Amsterdam, 1 Jun 2015
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Page 2 The future is unknown
Page 3 BMW i8 conceptBut it’s faster today...
Page 4 Sir Francis Bacon, 1561-1626
Knowledge is power.
Page 9 http://gapingvoid.com
Page 10 Sarah Connor, Terminator
What now? Dystopia?
Page 11 Meet your future workforce
Page 14 Policeman
Boston Dynamics Wildcat
Page 16 Sniper
General Atomics, MQ-9 Reaper
Page 17 Taxi DriverMercedes F015
Page 19 Pizza Delivery Guy
Page 20 Musician
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_Howell
Page 21 AthleteTosy, Topio 3
Page 22 Extraterrestrial MinerProject “Athlete”, NASA Jet Propulsion Lab, Caltech
Page 27 Automation will take the jobs it can take
http://www.cgpgrey.com/
Page 28 Massive Impact on the Workplace & Employment
Forbes, Feb. 2015
Page 29 RIP. It was good while it lasted...
Banker Lawyer
Page 30 memory augmentation therapist plant educator nano-weapon specialist diffractive optics modeler
New Jobs for you:
Page 33 Google Compute Engine
Page 36 Moore’s Law in perspective
Page 37 Quantum Computing
D Wave 2
Page 39 Ray Kurzweil
Kurzweil TL;DR
Page 40 Faster Computing -> faster innovation -> faster solutions to hard problems -> all diseases, hunger, energy, etc solved -> immortality -> bodies become obsolete, people will only be minds -> one interconnected mind across mankind
Kurzweil TL;DR
Page 41 I have no idea what you are talking about
Page 42 To infinity and beyond: Infinite Learning Loops
Buzz Lightyear
Page 43 Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
Arthur Schopenhauer, 1788-1860
Page 44 http://blog.vanillaforums.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/change-cartoon.jpg
Page 45 https://13c4.files.wordpress.com/2008/01/50-reason-notto2.jpg
Page 46 http://www.torbenrick.eu/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Reactions-to-change.png
Page 47 Where is the path?
Page 48 What is specifically HUMAN?
Page 50 Photo (c) 2015 Dan Taylor for Heisenberg Media
Mindfulness
Page 51 Cirque de Soleil
Creativity
Page 53 Plato + Aristotle
Caveatemptor
Page 54 DeductiveInference
Page 57 Thank You!
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