Technology and the Future How might the world

Technology and the Future How might the world change in your lifetime?

What we will talk about today: • History of cellphones and how they have changed our world • i. Gen generation (you!) • i. Gen compared to Millennials, Generation X, and Baby Boomers • Future of cellphones • Technology and Medicine • Driverless cars • Robots/Artificial Intelligence • Drones

Cellphone Timeline Motorola Dyna. TAC CAR PHONE • 1973 • First used in St. Louis in 1946 • Weighed 80 pounds Not released to public until 1983—the “brick” • 10 hours to charge • 35 minute usage • $3, 995 ($10, 000 today) • Motorola Micro. TAC • 1989 • 1 st true mobile phone • Weighed 12. 3 ounces • Flipped shut Nokia 1011 • 1992 • First to send and receive SMS (text) messages

i. Phone First i. Phone TV commercial aired during the Academy Awards on February 27, 2007. • First i. Phone released on June 29, 2007 • $499 for 4 GB; $599 for 8 GB • And a new generation was launched.

i. Gen • Born between 1995 and 2012 • Growing up with smartphones • Have no memory of a time without Internet • Oldest were early adolescents when i. Phone launched (12) • 2017 survey of more than 5, 000 American teens found three out of four own an i. Phone • According to Dr. Jean Twenge, “smartphones have radically changed every aspect of teenagers’ lives. ”

Are you?

How is your life as a teen different from your parent’s? Your grandparent’s? Your teacher’s? (Not meant to be nostalgic or “those were the days…”) • What does a fun Friday night look like for you? • If you want to meet friends somewhere, how do you make the plan? • Where do you hang out with friends? • Seniors in 2015 go out with friends less often than 8 th graders did in 2009. Why? • Are you 16? Do you have a driver’s license? • Have you been on a date?

What was missing in those pictures? • If you get a chance, talk with a parent/grandparent or friend at least a generation above you. Ø Millennials (born 1982 -2002, so overlap with i. Gen, defined by i. Phone) Ø Generation X (roughly 1965 -1981) Ø Baby Boomers (1946 -1964) • Ask about how they socialized with friends before cell phones/texting/smartphones • Ask about when/if they got a driver’s license

Pros and Cons of Smartphones What are your thoughts?

PROS Anything Missing? CONS • Safety • Expensive • Communication • Less talking/eye contact • Knowledge access • Always available • Productivity • Distractions • Always evolving/improving • Quickly outdated • Entertainment • Dangerous when driving • Taking pictures • Social Media • Cheating • Social Media

How will cell phones change in the future?

AUGMENTED REALITY • Surgery • Shopping • Gaming • Military • Navigation

Additional Cell Phone Change Predictions • Curved/folded screens • Stronger glass screens/ceramic bodies • Fancier cameras that take 3 D, 360 degrees photos (VR headset or hologram pop-out) • Built-in projector • Wireless charging in zones like Wi-Fi availability and other new battery options • More voice control, gesture, and other touch-free options • Neural Lace (Elon Musk working on a project, Neuralink)

Future Technology in Medicine What do you know? What can you imagine?

Using technology for Health Care • Contact lens that detects blood glucose levels from tears • Augmented Reality on i. Pads in Operating Rooms • Uploading minds to a computer and “living” in digital form • Repair physical disadvantages to “superhuman” power (eyesight, leg/arm strength, hearing) • Prosthetic devices connected to the brain • Pill bottles that glow blue and red • Apps (stethoscope, thermometer, blood pressure measurements) • CRISPR (clustered, regularly interspaced, short palindromic repeat), slicing and dicing strands of DNA on the human genome

Anne Wojcicki, founder of 23 and Me, believes (hopes? ) life expectancy will double in her lifetime. A DNA test kit that can test for disease Risks in your 23 chromosomes. Can medical advancement create immortality? It’s happened in Scythe, a new young adult novel.

DRIVERLESS CARS How will they change our world?

i. Gen will be less resistant to these predictions Robot taxis by next year (Uber/Lyft) 2038—most cars sold will be autonomously driven (5 LEVELS) Separate roads for Level 4 & 5 cars Some urban areas may ban privately owned cars

Pros and Cons of Driverless Cars?

Pros and Cons of Driverless Vehicles PROS CONS • $100, 000 for a self-driving car • No drunk or distracted drivers b/c of engineering & computer • More time for productivity and leisure • Accidents will still happen • Reduction in car accidents • Hacking systems • Savings in car insurance and healthcare costs • Driving will lose appeal • Less traffic • Regulation difficult • Less gas usage, so less carbon dioxide • Extend the work day • Less commute time

An average intersection with driverless cars… • Check your pulse!

Airplanes of the Future • Individual sleeping cabins • Folding seats • VR Goggles • Faster • More fuel capacity • More windows

Robots • Baby X (Computer graphic) • Sophia the Robot How strong is Sophia’s uncanny valley? Watch “Will Smith Tries Online Dating”

What is Artificial Intelligence? Intelligence displayed by machines Science fiction portrays it as robots with human-like characteristics

AI Learns to Walk True A. I. is a system that can learn on its own.

Jobs and Artificial Intelligence in the Future • Robot babysitters (maintenance and operation of robots) • Creativity for AI uses/apps—six-figure average salaries • Artists (although computers are getting pretty good at painting and composing music) • Cybersecurity: threat detection and response to hacking • Widen the language availability of speaking robots • Preparing for autonomous vehicles • Managing information

DRONES—How will they change the world?

Package Delivery • Amazon testing drones to deliver items within 30 minutes of ordering • Dominos testing pizza deliveries with drones in New Zealand • Future deliveries might involve pick up spots vs. home delivery • Drone delivery could cut back on truck deliveries • What kind of air-traffic-control would ubiquitous drones require? Amazon Prime Air

More Drone Ideas Agriculture Photos/videos—special events and insurance/damage assessment and news Humanitarian Aid Police and Fire departments Safety Inspection of hard-to-reach areas Deliver Internet Access (1. 6 billion people live in areas too remote for mobile broadband) Weather forecasting Wildlife Conservation

A Career in Predicting the Future? MIT Media Lab

St. Louis and Technology • Tribeca, “Smart” Apartments • T-Rex • Cortex (The Center of Research, Technology & Entrepreneurial Exchange)

The End THANK YOU! A short evaluation, if time?