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Edges and Everyday Practice

Keith LyonsUniversity of Canberra

The paradigm shift rate is now doubling every decade, so the twenty-first century will see 20,000 years of progress at today’s rate.

Kurzweil (2013)

“the focus has now shifted to find Moneyball 3.0 - and it's pretty clear this new edge is going to be sports science.”

BSPMPG (2013)

Sustaining Innovation

Value Network

Disruptive Innovation

Veillance

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Link

Smartworlds

99% and 1%

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Today

• High performance sport• Commercialising• Knowledge discovery• Apparel and equipment• Stadia• Genetic profiling• Hubs and nodes

Photo Credit, Jeremy Roof, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

Open Source Hardware

Open Source Software

While the social and philosophical ramifications of these changes will be profound, and the threats they pose considerable, we will ultimately merge with our machines, live indefinitely, and be a billion times more intelligent...all within the next three to four decades.

Kurzweil (2013)

It seems therefore that technology plays a paradoxical role in sport. We embrace it as a means todrive us towards perfection yet we resist it when it threatens to change sport from the faircontest of natural ability we believe it ought to be.

Emily Ryall (2012)