Wireless Wednesday -Futurist Simon Anderson

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Wireless Wednesday

Wireless & Future Trends

Presented by: Simon AndersonFounder of Futur1st.com

April 24th, 2013

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• “Television won’t last. It’s a flash in the pan.”

-Mary Somerville, pioneer of radio educational broadcasts, 1948

• "Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons."

-Popular Mechanics, forecasting the relentless march of science, 1949

• "The iPhone’s impact on our business will be minimal”

-Jim Balsillie, CEO, RIM (Blackberry), 2007

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5 Exabytes =

Enough data to fill ten million

high-end laptops

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“What a difference 8 years makes.

St. Peter's Square in 2005

vs. 2013.”

- @NBCNew

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• Generational Trends - The Importance of Digital Natives

• Workforce Trends

• Mobile 3.0

• The “Internet of Things”

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Generational Trends:

The Importance ofDigital Natives

10Digital Natives

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The Old “American Dream”

Bureaucracy12

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Airbnb Growth Stats 9-08 to 2-13

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Workforce and Workplace

Trends:“I can’t work 9-to-

5”

No More 9-516

Only 11% think...

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Great Co-Working SpaceCocoMSP.com

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Mobile 3.0Contextually Aware

and New Form Factors

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Mobile 1.0

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Mobile 2.0

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Google Now

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Education 2.0Anywhere,Anytime

The “Internet of Things”

Machine-to-MachineCommunication

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New Bridge with Sensors

I-35 BridgeCollapse

2007

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Contact info:Futur1st.com

simon.anderson@futur1st.com

Twitter:@Futur1st