Monthly Archives: August 2009

The Distinction of Past and Future

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Thanks to my subscription to Twine.com, i found this great website of Humansfuture.

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It brings together subjects like Artificial Intelligence, Nano, Genetic Engineering, Transhumanism, etc, etc,… exactly all the subject matter for our Think Tank on Long Term Future.

From there i went on a surf “trip”, and discover The Next Big Thing, an initiative from BBC2 Open University.

They find their stuff at the Vega Science Trust.

Which led me discover the Classic Feynman Lectures that were put on line recently by Bill Gates on Microsoft Research under Project Tuva.

Btw, i wonder what became of Bill Gates new company, a sort of Think Tank.

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Microsoft Research Project Tuva presents Nobel Prize winning physicist Richard Feynman’s Messenger Series lectures within a new video player. This enhanced video player features searchable video, linked transcripts, user notes, and interactive extras.

Have a look at the 1964 lecture on “The distinction of past & future”. Dont forget this is 50 years old !

You can of course also google/bing Feynman. Here is a cool video: he starts by saying “I want to investigate everything”.

So, while the title of this post relates to future that is still 30-50 years away, it brings us back 50 years ago !

Innotribe News Flash 2 – Innotribe Sibos Labs

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Also posted at:

https://www.swiftcommunity.net/blogs/blogDetail.cfm?id=1514

Exactly one month to go ! Then Innotribe @ Sibos will kick-off for an exciting week of inspiring presentations, face to face discussions, interactive workshops, and special challenges – all aimed at one single goal: enabling collaborative innovation.

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Feel the heat building up at www.innotribe.com. The community is buzzing of new ideas. As you will see, our Innotribe Leaders have changed gears and are now posting very actively to collect your ideas to work on them during our Innotribe Sibos Labs from 14-18 Sep 2008 in Hong-Kong.

Some quick links:

Mash-up:

https://www.swiftcommunity.net/communities/blogdetail.cfm?id=1512

Corporates needed:

https://www.swiftcommunity.net/communities/blogdetail.cfm?id=1511

So, here is our 2nd News Flash on Innotribe.

Today, more detailed information about the Innotribe Sibos Labs.

The Innotribe Sibos Labs are one of the key components of Innotribe. These are interactive workshops, fully equipped with tools and connectivity, to brainstorm on new ideas but more importantly to make these ideas tangible in application mock-ups or prototypes. These Sibos Labs will be led by the Innotribe leaders helped by professional facilitators from The Value Web. Additional help is offered to the participants by two Venture Capitalists acting as "consultants" to the teams. The Value Web will simultaneously scribe to advice / assist groups in packaging their idea. We will also have a number of PC’s with internet connectivity available to help documenting the ideas and to possibly make some mock-ups of applications illustrating the ideas.

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The objective of the first Innotribe Sibos Lab on 14 Sep 2009 is to generate ideas and selection criteria to be used for evaluating the ideas. First we will create working groups per theme: Cloud, Crowd, Mash-up. Participants are asked to join the group of their "prime interest". "Prime" implies that the topic is not exclusive and leaves space for transversal ideas. Each team goes in a dedicated space, and find an assignment. The groups will brainstorm with the Innotribe leaders on how the Cloud, Mash-up and Crowd trends can transform the industry. "knowledge kiosks" will propose food for thought in free access: Hand-out with ideas from the swiftcommunity.net, any document collected upfront, etc. Groups will reflect on the criteria that would best qualify the ideas proposed. New assignments will be brought in, to shift the focus of the discussion. The challenge is to introduce the filtering process without restraining the creativity of the group. Assignment shall be more of an invitation. Expected outcome is a first draft of idea/ideas and a documented set of relevant criteria

The objective of the second Innotribe Sibos Lab on 15 Sep 2009 is to narrow down ideas to likely candidates to be developed further and “sold” to buyers panel during the Innotribe Closing. The groups will go back in same configuration as day before and iterate and their ideas. The assignment will invite to select one idea before going forward (if not already done). This session will be about refining your ideas – give them spin & shine. The Value Web facilitator will suggest many different tools and techniques to sell their ideas (glossy add, marketing with the public, raising capital, getting developers to mock up, using the VCs etc…). We will also use Guy Kawasaki’s 10/20/30 rule for making good pitches. Expected outcome is to have framed idea(s) – the core of what the teams will present to the buyer’s panel should be clear.

During the third Innotribe Sibos Lab on 16 Sep 2009, we will mock the ideas up in order to get them ready for a presentation to the jury on the next day. The groups go back in same configuration as day before and iterate and their ideas. Facilitation will invite to further refine outside of the time & space that is offered in the Lab.

During the dry-runs on 16 Sep 2009 late afternoon, participants will refine their presentation and prepare for the oral with the buyer’s panel.

The Innotribe Sibos Labs will culminate into the presentation to the buyer’s panel during the Innotribe Closing on 17 Sep 2009. Each team will get maximum 8 minutes to give a condensed power presentation. More on the Innotribe closing in one of our next Innotribe News Flashes.

Innotribe Leaders:

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Practical:

Where: The Innotribe Sibos Labs take place in the Innotribe Dome (located in the Sibos Labs room).

When:

– First Innotribe Sibos Lab: Monday 14 Sep 2009, from 12:15 – 13:45

– Second Innotribe Sibos Lab: Tuesday 15 Sep 2009, from 14:30 – 16:00

– Third Innotribe Sibos Lab: Wednesday 16 Sep 2009, from 14:30 – 16:00

– Dry-Runs: Wednesday 16 Sep 2009, from 17:30 – 18:30

– Idea pitches during Innotribe Closing: Thursday 17 Sep 2009, from 10:30 – 12:00

To let us know if you will be coming to this event, login to www.swiftcommunity.net, go to the Innotribe Sibos Labs event and click I will attend button next to the event. You can also see who else is coming.

Money Remixed

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Can i trust you?

A nasty virus.

The party is over.

Mint Money.

Money will be reborn.

Private currencies to be liquid ?

How many controversial statements do you need to get attention ?

Who do you trust

Brands for example. Brand Equity.

 

Found via O’Reilly.

The economy is going off a cliff and financial practices are being, ahem, re-evaluated. Anthony Citrano takes this thinking a step further and ponders what would happen if the US dollar disappeared. He suggests that corporations will end up issuing money (like Kong Bucks in Snow Crash).

Anthony Citrano co-founded Pop!Tech and worked on the Obama campaign. He has written for Consumerist, The Huffington Post, Money, the New York Times, Investor’s Business Daily, the Wall Street Journal, WIRED, and his blog, The Cosmic Tap. This talk was filmed by Social Animal and was given at the first ignite LA.

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What if TRUST becomes value #1 ?

Food for thought for our Think Tank on Long Term Future

Innotribe @ Sibos – Newsflash on Opening

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https://www.swiftcommunity.net/blogs/blogdetail.cfm?id=1495

Within a little more than one month to go, Innotribe @ Sibos will kick-off for an exciting week of inspiring presentations, face to face discussions, interactive workshops, and special challenges – all aimed at one single goal: enabling collaborative innovation.

From now on, we’ll post regular news flashes about the details of the Innotribe program.

Today, more detailed information about the Innotribe Opening: “Beyond Web 2.0 – what will YOU create?”

We have chosen this title 1) to make the connection with last year’s Sibos Labs where the theme was Web 2.0, and 2) because we really wanted to have YOU work together to collaboratively generate and flesh-out ideas before, during and after Sibos.

The Innotribe Opening will give 4 perspectives on the future. It will set the scene for a joint journey with the audience -exploring how current and emerging trends will shape our industry and landscape. With vibrant and stunning examples our speakers will energize you to join the Innotribe, innovating and crafting the future as it emerges throughout the Sibos week.

· Innovation 2.0: It’s OPEN, not closed

Peter Hinssen (1969) (www.peterhinssen.com ) is co-founder of ACROSS Group and Managing Director of ACROSS Technology. An entrepreneur, lecturer and writer, he is also the chairman of Porthus.com and has been an Entrepreneur in Residence with McKinsey & Company. He will kick-off with a 15 min presentation on the need to innovate together with customers, partners, and the eco-system at large. Peter is a regular keynote speaker. Those who have seen him before will certainly agree with me that he is our ideal speaker to give a thundering wake-up call on this subject.

· The Future of IT: Driving Innovation across Financial Services

Bindia Hallauer is the Chief Technology Strategist for Worldwide Financial Services Sector at Microsoft Corporation, based in Redmond, Washington, USA.  In this leadership role, Bindia owns shaping Microsoft’s technology strategy in financial services industry across banking, capital markets and insurance. She owns the overall technical vision, architecture and roadmap, coordinating a single point of view for FSI solution offerings IP development and productization.

Session abstract: Bindia will talk about disruptive technology trends are shaping the future of IT.  Increasing software complexity and the shift to many-core architecture, consumer-driven IT, Petabyte storage and Petaflop processing power, and cloud computing are some of the key technology trends.  This session will focus on profound changes that the future of IT will bring to Financial Services industry.  Thought provoking ideas will be presented.

· The Shape Of Banking Architecture In 2023

Jost Hoppermann is Vice-President of Forrester Research. Jost serves Enterprise Architecture professionals, particularly around financial services. As an analyst, he is an expert on a number of global banking technology topics, including banking platforms, software infrastructure, multi-channel platforms, architecture, and application strategy planning. He also covers enterprise architecture from an organizational and process perspective on an industry neutral basis.

Session abstract: this session will summarize the key findings of a global Forrester research project focusing on potential changes in the banking and financial services space in 2023. It will show how financial services firms will interact with each other and with their customers in the future; which core competencies banks expect to need; how information technology and its successor business technology will need to help the business to differentiate from competition. While 2023 looks like a very concrete date, some banks will only need five or eight years to arrive in 2023 — to some degree — while others may have to take a 10 or 15-years-long path. Bulletized agenda:

– Business scenarios

– Customer interaction

– Business technology scenarios

– Peer advice for the future

· Innovating  Around the Customer

Cindy Murray is Global Banking and Wealth Management Ecommerce Executive at Bank Of America.

Cindy Murray is responsible for designing, building and launching new credit and treasury products across Global Corporate & Investment Banking to drive the acquisition and deepening of client relationships. Her team also leads the Ecommerce portal strategic direction and development for the bank’s corporate and commercial clients.

Session abstract: It was less than 5 short years ago when we heard the term Web 2.0 used for the very first time. If you fast forward to today, it’s clear that Web 2.0 is already morphing into Web 3.0. This session will not only highlight the basics of these technology trends, but more importantly show how they are enabling companies to “innovate around the client”. You will learn how ethnographic research can transform client needs assessments, how best to leverage clients’ discussion forums, and how the financial services industry will continue to be transformed by these new methods of client engagement.

· What’s up this week @ Innotribe ?

Kosta Peric – Head of Innovation at SWIFT, and Philippe Coullomb – Facilitator from The Value Web.

Kosta will introduce the 3 themes of this year’s Innotribe: Cloud, Crowd and Mash-up and the creativity challenge. Philippe will introduce the process and rules of engagement of the first Innotribe Sibos Lab, immediately following the opening. More about that in a next newsletter.

· Innotribe Leaders pitch their Sibos Lab

We plan 3 parallel Sibos Labs: one on Cloud, one on Crowd, and one on Mash-ups. Our Innotribe Leaders will introduce the ideas that emerged pre-Sibos on Swiftcommunity.net and will pitch their Sibos Lab as the best to attend.

Where: The opening will take place in the Innotribe Dome (located in the Sibos Labs room).

When: Monday 14 Sep 2009, from 10:30 – 12:15

To let us know if you will be coming to this event, login to www.swiftcommunity.net, go to the opening event and click I will attend button next to the event. You can also see who else is coming.

Holographic Week-End

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Looks like i have a holographic week-end 🙂

At our Sep 2009 Innotribe, we’ll also have something holographic.

Michael Warner (CEO Quantum4D) and Ed Sesek (InfiniteZ), will show Holographic Analytics and Banking:

Holographic Analytics goes beyond pages and files to open a new universe of interconnected insights.  

Mike and Ed will show dynamic 3D holographic models of SWIFT’s global banking networks on a national scale. They will then fly into regional views and on down into a individual bank and its internal network topology.  The tour will include – among a number of potential tour stops – models of banking markets that ‘mash-up’ demographic and industry data with SWIFT traffic. 

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They also aim to show a visual model of the bank enterprise itself from several dimensions (staff activities, IT networks, etc…)  and how that those domains interact with each other and the larger banking ecosystem we help illuminate.

This includes the addition of a display platform which will allow the audience to cue up to view the same views displayed on the big screen in an experimental holographic 3D display. Users wearing polarized sun-glasses will be able to  see the above described animated network graphics ‘floating in space’ in the air between them and two screens.

Users will also be able to wear a head tracking hat and use a pen device to literally look around and manipulate the network visualizations.

The InfiniteZ Website has a fantastic tagline:

“Transforming human-computer interaction”

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They will speak during our R&D Insights on the Innovation Floor on 16th Sep 2009 from 15:30 – 16:30, and the audience will be able to wear special glasses and play around with holographic pointers.

Singularity Summit 2009

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If you happen to be in New-York begin October 2009, and you can spend the week-end there, something different would be to attend the Saturday-Sunday 3-4 Oct 2009 Singularity Summit.

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Very interesting line-up of speakers and not that expensive: 399$ for the 2 days if your are an early bird.

The conference is devoted to the better understanding of increasing intelligence and accelerating change.

Participants will hear talks from cutting-edge researchers and network with strategic business leaders.

The world’s most eminent experts on forecasting, venture capital, emerging technologies, consciousness and life extension will present their unique perspectives on the future and how to get there.

Select Speakers this year:

* Ray Kurzweil really does not need an introduction, but anyway: he is the author of The Singularity is Near (2005) and co-founder of Singularity University, which is backed by Google and NASA. At the Singularity Summit, he will present his theories on accelerating technological change and the future of humanity.

* Dr. David Chalmers, director of the Centre for Consciousness at Australian National University and one of the world’s foremost philosophers, will discuss mind uploading, the possibility of transferring human consciousness onto a computer network.

* Dr. Ed Boyden is a joint professor of Biological Engineering and of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT. Discover Magazine named him one of the 20 best brains under 40.

* Peter Thiel is the president of Clarium, seed investor in Facebook, managing partner of Founders Fund, and co-founder of PayPal.

* Dr. Aubrey de Grey is a biogerontologist and Director of Research at the SENS Foundation, which seeks to extend the human lifespan. He will present on the ethics of this proposition.

* Dr. Philip Tetlock is Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley, and author of Expert Political Judgement: How Good Is It?

* Dr. Jurgen Schmidhuber is co-director of the Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence in Lugano, Switzerland. He will discuss the mathematical essence of beauty and creativity.

* Dr. Gary Marcus is director of the NYU Infant Language Learning Center, and professor of psychology at New York University and author of the book Kludge.

You can subscribe to the event via the banner below.

If you are interested in this sort of stuff, i strongly recommend to subscribe to the weekly KurzweilAI.net newsletter, where this week, i found the following interesting article on the first Touchable Hologram becoming reality.

3D holograms that can be touched with bare hands have been developed by researchers from the University of Tokyo. Called the Airborne Ultrasound Tactile Display, the hologram projector uses an ultrasound phenomenon called acoustic radiation pressure to create a pressure sensation on a user’s hands, which are tracked with two Nintendo Wiimotes….

Watch the white mouse at the very end. I can think of a couple of applications that are touch-based 😉

Retail/Bank of the Future (2019)

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One of those Microsoft Labs videos. Always well done.

Most of this and more you can touch and feel in Living Tomorrow,  from Belgium and much better (as the chocolates) than the video 😉

You can visit the Store of Tomorrow and also the Bank of the Future. Store is sponsored by Delhaize, Bank by ING.

What a co-incidence ! At our SWIFT Innotribe @ Sibos on 14-17 Sep 2009 in Hong-Kong, we’ll have a Face-to-Face debate on “The Future of Banking”.

Check out www.innotribe.com : that’s what i am doing for a living.

The hype of Augmented Reality

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Good overview of latest Augmented Reality examples on ReadWriteWeb.

The example i “like” most is the Augmented Identity one.

I am re-iterating the thinking we did before on this blog on how any on-line person is starting to have its own “information shadow” that is unique. No more need for identity “cards” or alike.

In that context, I recently met Dave Birch, Director at Consult Hyperion, who is 1) a very cool presenter on identity and digital money and 2) has two pretty interesting blogs on these subjects:

– His identity blog is here

– His money blog is here

Not much to add to the ReadWriteWeb article.

Have a deep dive in Gartner’s 2009 Hype Circle for Emerging Technologies.

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See also that Human Augmentation now appears at the very start of the Technology Triggers.