Roope Mokka's presentation on Internet of NO things in technology conference Slush 15. Announcing the release of the foresight report "Gardens and Street" that looks into the social and economic tensions of the post IoT-world. http://nakedapproach.demoshelsinki.fi/2015/11/12/the-internet-of-things-is-not-about-technology-its-about-society/
15. Same time as the size and prize of
computing devices drops their
functionalities increase. Eventually this
leads to a hyperconnected planet.
THE LAW OF
HYPERCONNECTED PLANET
16. Smart Environments
Personal Computers
Smart Phones
Smart Watches
Wearables
”Smart dust”
Nearables
Hyperconnected
planet
Mainframe computers
Size&Prize
Functionalities
Laptops
THE LAW OF
HYPERCONNECTED
PLANET
31. 1. Conservative agenda.
Conserve our current structures with laws,
regulations and incentivising.
2. Progressive agenda.
Solve the pressing problems of the humanity with
this new technology, and harness and keep the
values we have.
Welcome to a journey into the future. I’ll ask you to enter into a thought-experiment, we’ll venture 10-15 years into the future and try and make sense out of it.
I’m here to speak to you about internet of NO things. The point when internet becomes part of our built environment and therefore ceases to be. Yes, we think that its likely that as soon as in already in 10 years time smartphones and internet have disappeared.
So what is internet of NO things? First lets start with a simple exercise.
Now?
10 seconds ago?
1 minute ago?
5 minutes ago?
10 minutes ago?
Who has not had a look at their phone today?
This is obviously crazy. So we disrupt ourselves every sixth minute. And off we go, there’s a red dot in Facebook, someone commented something, then email, then snapchat, then instagram, then twitter. A bit if Facebook again and finally close it of with a small look at reddit. And start again in six minutes.
But not as crazy as to claim that in ten years time most of us will never look at our smartphones because smartphones don’t exist.
But not as crazy as to claim that in ten years time most of us will never look at our smartphones because smartphones don’t exist.
But not as crazy as to claim that in ten years time most of us will never look at our smartphones because smartphones don’t exist.
The reason behind internet of NO things is simple. The strongest long term trend in technology has been the drop in size and price of technology. Things get smaller and smaller and cheaper and cheaper.
I’m here to speak to you about internet of NO things. The point when internet becomes part of our built environment and therefore ceases to be. Yes, we think that its likely that as soon as in already in 10 years time smartphones and internet have disappeared.
Now imagine iPhone getting smaller and smaller and cheaper and cheaper and incorporating more and more things, before it becomes so small and cheap.
This might sound a bit sci-fi, but its actually reality already. We’re right now experimenting with these technologies in our Naked Approach research programme. We have labs for printable electronics, which means you can print things such as solar cells, soon touch screens and so forth. Some labs we work with are in energy harvesting. It means that none of these need an external energy source, but they will generate their own energy. Then there’s sensor labs that create sensors for measuring everything from what to movement to particles in the air and more at an extremely low cost. When you put these to together something wonderful happens. You get totally independently working small computers do the same things and more than the current computers do.
As technology keeps developing faster and faster all the technologies that are now in a smartphone will be the size of piece of paper and the price of a piece of paper as well.
What we have to understand is that when technology get developed enough it dissappears and ubiquitous enough, it ceases to be seen as a technology. Look around you, there’s amazing technologies already around us. This house is a very typical disruptive technology, not to mention this collection of houses and streets and other infrastructure. They are also technologies. Our clothes are a technology, the food on the tables is the end product of masses of technologies form fire to other means of cooking. These are all technologies that have sort of disappeared, they are on the background and nobody (outside dedicated professionals) thinks of them as technologies.
The really amazing thing behind this is energy harvesting. The sensor will have to work without a power source. They will harvest their energy from their environment. Heat, light, movement and radio waves. These are the four things that energy will be harvested from. This is also critical to the vision of internet of NO things. It will either happen without energy, or it will not happen at all.