Conference Presentation, Panel, Fireside Chat
Inventing the Impossible
- Traffic is projected to double this year due to the powerful nature of the current topics.
- The Google Lunar XPRIZE aims to have 19 teams land probes on the moon within the next couple of months.
- Mobile phone usage for financial transactions is expected to reach nearly one-third of the global population by 2018.
- Mobile health technologies, such as eyeball photography for diabetes checks and stomach/chest sensors for vital signs, are expected to extend life expectancy to 110 years while maintaining physical appearance.
- Low-cost diagnostic tools are becoming standard, including a pancreatic cancer test costing three cents with a near 100% survival rate, an AIDS test reducing analysis time from five weeks to 22 minutes at five cents, and a CD4 ratio check costing five cents.
- New delivery systems, such as ingestible vegetable pills communicating via gastric juices to arm patches and mobile phones, will enable real-time transmission of internal body data to physicians.
- Mobile health networks, led by Archbishop Desmond Tutu and the World Health Organization, will utilize data analytics in African community health centers.
- Digital currency, specifically Bitcoin, is anticipated to transform global money transactions and is being evaluated for adoption in Africa and other regions.
- Gamification strategies involving big data and applications like Angry Birds are planned for addressing cancer, traffic, population issues, urban problems, and national educational curricula in Finland.
- Crowdsourcing will shift from being an idea creation pool to a validation environment for editing, revising, and complimenting concepts.
- A collaborative approach between old, new, and modern worlds, accelerated by communication technologies, is expected to accelerate the overcoming of impossible barriers.
- The time continuum is narrowing, leading to increased human expectations for speed and a tendency to reject ideas from millennials without granting permission to generate seven to ten concepts first.
- Contextual relevance is identified as a key driver for making the impossible possible, exemplified by global market entries like Akon recording in Hindi.
- Innovations from emerging markets, including medical inventions and genetic testing, are expected to double back and impact the United States.
- The shared economy is expanding through social media identities that enable reputation management and voice, allowing communities to form around services like Airbnb and Uber.
- Corporations, governments, and rebel forces will soon possess the capacity to broadcast messages with equal weight to government officials.
- A new type of book merging with video games will allow fictional characters to maintain real social media presences and interact with the real world.
- Interactive storytelling embedded in clothing has the potential to significantly increase voter turnout.
- Tissue and organ printing are expected to progress from ears and skin to kidneys and hearts.
- Human instinct to fear change and failure is identified as a natural barrier that must be overcome to achieve dreams and create change.
- Technology adoption is increasingly driven by low energy requirements and the motivation for life accessibility.
- Ideas that were previously impossible can now be presented to the public within minutes or days.