Brad Templeton

The lessons the computer industry can teach the world about living with change

Hot Robocar issues: Everything you know is wrong

Intro to Exponentials

Computer Insecurity

Exponential Organisations

Lessons from VoIP, instant messaging and presence

Living the history of the internet, USENET and more

Copyright and the creative economy

The dark side of Web 2.0/cloud computing, social networks, data portability and single sign-on

The Future of Computing

• Lessons from the Internet on an exponential revolution: What the internet and software teach about how to run a company in the 21st century.
• The coming abundance of bandwidth (including Google “Loon”)
• New user interfaces including augmented and virtual reality
• The Internet of Things (optional demo of Bluetooth tags.) Note this is a somewhat skeptical presentation which points out that the IoT is still a marketing concept rather than well understood changer of how people live, but it covers what’s really happening.
• Quick Moore’s Law introduction
• Quick bitcoin introduction (10 minutes)
• Models of future network dominance

Robocars: Computers driving cars and changing the world

Everything your business needs to know it can learn from the computer industry

• Moore’s law: How it works, why it happened, where it’s going
• The secret ingredients that let the internet beat all the other networks
• How software is eating the world and why this forces every company to become a software company or die
• The story of open systems and how they beat proprietary
• Disruptive, deceptive technology and how it crushes entire industries
• The advantages founder-led companies gain over board-led ones
• What to do when the computer becomes the most important part of your product
• How to get (portions of) big companies to act more like small companies and stay alive

Computers, Privacy and the NSA

The ethics of Copyable People

Internet Governance and domain names

Privacy in the future, the NSA and the Snowden disclosures

Introduction to exponential thinking and singularity ideas

How to change your mindset for the new pace of technology.

Singularity topics: Nanotechnology, AI, Patternism (copyable people and AIs) or “Would you let Mr. Scott beam you up in the Transporter?”

Advanced Robocars:

• What’s new from all the major players in the space
• Sensors (vision, radar, lidar, maps) and the different approaches
• Accidents and insurance
• Networking, security and communications
• Approaches: Neural networks and traditional algorithms
• The hard challenges and testing
• Governments and policy
• Delivery robots and the future of retail
• Electric robocars and vehicle design in the future
• The future of public transit, the future of mobility and the future of cities

Moore’s Law

The Future of Creativity and Copyright

New ways to organise computer operating systems to improve ease of use