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"Tech questions for 2022" by @benedictevans may actually provide the answer to #digitalDisruption

"Tech questions for 2022" by @benedictevans may actually provide the answer to #digitalDisruption | WHY IT MATTERS: Digital Transformation | Scoop.it

Sometimes the centre of gravity in tech is very clear, but as we enter 2022 there are lots of areas where trillion dollar questions are wide open. These are the questions I wonder about today, from crypto to cars to fast fashion - there are others.

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WHY IT MATTERS: this list of technology questions for 2022 feels like an answer to the question "what is digital disruption?".

We have reached a moment in time where old technologies - eCommerce or videoconferencing for example - are finally breaking into established industries. And the impact, at scale, cannot be found in technology but rather in every single industry it disrupts.

Very thoughtful piece, very good questions.

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Elon Musk interview by MIT professor sheds light into how advanced Tesla Autopilot is to deliver self driving experience - he predicts end of 2019 or 2020 at the latest #ArtificialIntelligence #AI ...

This conversation happened after the release of the paper from our group at MIT on driver functional vigilance during use of Tesla's Autopilot. The Tesla team reached out to me offering a podcast conversation with Mr Musk. I accepted, with full control of questions I could ask and choice of what is released publicly. I ended up editing out nothing of substance. This was an insightful discussion on various aspects of Tesla Autopilot that I hope catalyzes further nuanced conversation on the future of AI-assisted driving. Starts at 2:35. The full outline of the video is as follows:
0:00 Introduction
2:35 Start of conversation: Autopilot motivation
4:01 Display the vehicle's perception of the driving scene
7:11 Algorithms, data, and hardware development
10:23 Edge cases and common cases in driving
12:18 Navigate on Autopilot
13:57 Hardware and software path toward fully autonomy
17:08 Driver supervision of Autopilot
20:13 Human side of Tesla Autopilot (driver functional vigilance)
23:13 Driver monitoring
24:30 Operational design domain
26:57 Securing Autopilot against adversarial machine learning
28:29 Narrow AI and artificial general intelligence
30:10 Physics view of love
31:53 First question for an artificial general intelligence system

Farid Mheir's insight:

WHY IT MATTERS: this is a very geeky interview with Elon Musk on autopilot and the future of self-driving cars. Thoughtful, structured and informative it brings to light a very strong point: the value of a car lies in its capacity to self drive and every Tesla has this feature already builtin. Basically it means that cars will soon cross the threshold of autonomy, opening a whole new era for personal transportation. But more importantly I believe for businesses that rely on delivery logistics: ecommerce of course but also groceries, medical supplies, etc.

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Phoenix will no longer be Phoenix if Waymo’s driverless-car experiment succeeds

Phoenix will no longer be Phoenix if Waymo’s driverless-car experiment succeeds | WHY IT MATTERS: Digital Transformation | Scoop.it

Experimental Design imagines another scenario: neighborhoods eliminate the growing stream of delivery vehicles by organizing central locations or deploying a kind of package delivery van that comes around once or twice a day like an ice-cream truck. Neighbors might gather around the day’s influx of retail goods and exchange news, transforming the hermetic life behind closed garage doors into a more open and collaborative kind of community.

Farid Mheir's insight:

WHY IT MATTERS: the impact of self-driving cars for cities that were designed and built around cars remains unknown. Phoenix being one of them where Google waymo self-driving taxis is being tested at scale today. This article explores the possible impacts and they are fascinating, going well beyond transportation.

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Successful digital transformations require innovation and the best way to to partner with startups - @McKinsey suggests there are multiple ways to partner and they are right #digitalTransformation ...

Successful digital transformations require innovation and the best way to to partner with startups - @McKinsey suggests there are multiple ways to partner and they are right #digitalTransformation ... | WHY IT MATTERS: Digital Transformation | Scoop.it

Once prospective partners in the ecosystem have been identified, there are a variety of ways to work with them, ranging from collaborations that involve a limited financial commitment to outright acquisitions.

Farid Mheir's insight:

WHY IT MATTERS: large organizations are not structured to deliver on the innovation that digital transformations required. Partnering with startups is thus the way to go.

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Digital Center of Competence must have 3 roles for successful digital transformations: align, build and network - according to @McKinsey

Digital Center of Competence must have 3 roles for successful digital transformations: align, build and network - according to @McKinsey | WHY IT MATTERS: Digital Transformation | Scoop.it

The digital center of competence (DCoC) is responsible for setting direction and ensuring that learning is widely shared. In this structure, the competence center does not have P&L responsibilities, but it does have its own budget, and each business unit (BU) owns its own internal digital initiatives. The DCoC assumes three important functions to develop products and services, build skills across BUs, and create external networks.

Farid Mheir's insight:

WHY IT MATTERS: when you create a digital center of competence (which McKinsey suggests and I agree in most organizations), then you must equip it with a budget (seems obvious but rarely is) and give it a goal to DELIVER (not just strategize or think, which is often the case). This is the only way you can have the DCOC be owner of its future and the transformation that comes with it.

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WHY IT MATTERS: when you create a digital center of competence (which McKinsey suggests and I agree in most organizations), then you must equip it with a budget (seems obvious but rarely is) and give it a goal to DELIVER (not just strategize or think, which is often the case). This is the only way you can have the DCOC be owner of its future and the transformation that comes with it.

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3 governance models for successful digital transformations according to @McKinsey tracks with what others think as well #digitalTransformation

3 governance models for successful digital transformations according to @McKinsey tracks with what others think as well #digitalTransformation | WHY IT MATTERS: Digital Transformation | Scoop.it

In our experience, businesses are most successful in pushing through a digital transformation by organizing around one of three primary archetypes.

Farid Mheir's insight:

WHY IT MATTERS: digital transformation governance remains tricky enough to require a center of excellence in certain cases. This tracks with previous post from Bain here: http://fmcs.digital/blog/organizing-for-a-digital-world-bain-brief-bain-company/ 

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McKinsey defines 6 elements for successful digital transformations for automotive suppliers - are other industries so different? #dontThinkSo #digitalTransformation @McKinsey

McKinsey defines 6 elements for successful digital transformations for automotive suppliers - are other industries so different? #dontThinkSo #digitalTransformation @McKinsey | WHY IT MATTERS: Digital Transformation | Scoop.it

In our experience working with automotive suppliers, we have learned that successful digital transformations should be well designed and soundly executed across six core areas (Exhibit 1). Central to the success of the transformation is being clear about the impact each of the six areas has on the others and understanding the key dependencies across all of them.

Farid Mheir's insight:

WHY IT MATTERS: digital transformation success is not about technology. I agree.

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Digital should drive how companies define their product & service features - for ex. the colour of your next car may not be decided on looks alone "How paint jobs can make sensors and autonomous ca...

Digital should drive how companies define their product & service features - for ex. the colour of your next car may not be decided on looks alone "How paint jobs can make sensors and autonomous ca... | WHY IT MATTERS: Digital Transformation | Scoop.it

Customers could, Henry Ford once quipped, have a car in any colour they wanted so long as it was black. In the end consumer choice got the better of him; cars now come in all manner of complexions. Black, nevertheless, remains popular. Despite Ford’s equivocations, none of this has, until recently, presented carmakers with much of a problem. That is changing because, besides absorbing sunlight, dark shades also tend to absorb much of the signal transmitted from the increasing number of sensors being fitted to vehicles.

Farid Mheir's insight:

WHY IT MATTERS: digital transformation is such a hot topic today because it impacts every business function, from design to production to customer service. This article presents a very good example of such impact: car paint has to adapt (transform) to support the needs of digital technology. Maybe a future automobile selling point will become: "Buy this extra 750$ car paint so that you can be safer on the road, maximize visibility from other drivers, robots and self-driving cars!" Who knows...

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The world’s first crewless cargo ship will launch next year #digitalTransformation #WhyItMatters

The world’s first crewless cargo ship will launch next year #digitalTransformation #WhyItMatters | WHY IT MATTERS: Digital Transformation | Scoop.it

The world’s first crewless, automated cargo ship will launch in 2018, reports the Wall Street Journal, and is expected to be fully autonomous by 2020.

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WHY IT MATTERS: we think of autonomous vehicles as self-driving cars. But we are more likely to see business and professional applications such as this self-driving cargo ship appear first.

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Get on board with electric vehicles #EV & #Autonomous #Trucks as they will Disrupt Rail & Transform Logistics

Get on board with electric vehicles #EV & #Autonomous #Trucks as they will Disrupt Rail & Transform Logistics | WHY IT MATTERS: Digital Transformation | Scoop.it
ARK expects autonomous trucks to reduce the cost of trucking from 12 cents per ton-mile to 3 cents during the next five to ten years.
Farid Mheir's insight:

WHY IT MATTERS: if you do not include self-driving trucks and electrification into your strategic digital plan for distribution then you will have competitors that are 4x cheaper than you are competing for your clients in the coming years. Start planning what it means to your people, processes, and internal technologies. Put together prototypes and proof-of-concepts with startups in the area today. This is what digital transformation will mean in the 2020s: we are way past having a nice a website and eCommerce!

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Where Driverless Cars Brake for Golf Carts: watch for #selfDrivingCars in gated communities

Where Driverless Cars Brake for Golf Carts: watch for #selfDrivingCars in gated communities | WHY IT MATTERS: Digital Transformation | Scoop.it

The start-up Voyage is testing its self-driving taxi service in a gated community of about 4,000 residents where the average age is 76. There's another benefit to testing in a retirement community: It's private property. That means Voyage doesn't have to share ride information with state regulators, freeing it from some bureaucracy. But testing in the community meant different obstacles, like insurers requiring Voyage to have double California's $5 million in coverage funds and to hand over all driving data. To reassure the retirement community, Voyage gave them as much equity as they give to a new hire. That aside, retirees have a lot to gain from self-driving cars. Losing the ability to drive often cuts folks off from the outside world, so it's interesting to see Voyage explore where other self-driving leaders haven't been yet.

Farid Mheir's insight:

WHY IT MATTERS: it makes perfect sense when you think about it: deploy self-driving cars on private property instead of on the open road. Here, the use case is a retirement community. Next I assume it may be on a vacation resort (think self-driving golf carts) or a remote wilderness fishing property (more self driving all-terrain trucks). And why are businesses with large properties not deploying self-driving vehicles? Oops not true they are: Codelco has 4 fully autonomous copper mines in Chile!. Take a few minutes to watch he Voyage experiment video: https://news.voyage.auto/voyages-first-self-driving-car-deployment-29c7688c6a1 or more on mining automation http://sco.lt/4qCRLV 

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Mapping air pollution with new mobile sensors on Google streetView cars

Mapping air pollution with new mobile sensors on Google streetView cars | WHY IT MATTERS: Digital Transformation | Scoop.it
EDF and Google Earth Outreach convened a mobile measurement team to assess air pollution at a level of detail that was nearly impossible before.
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WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT

Digital and miniaturization bring more sensors into the real world to help digitize it. Google street view did it with taking pictures to overlay on google maps but why not add additional sensors to help us "see" more of the real world in the digital world? That is exactly what is happening here and I expect more as we've seen with other projects that embed sensors for pollution, wifi and radio waves, radioactive detectors, blast detectors and I assume many others. How can this idea be applied elsewhere in factories and manufacturing plants? Could we use these sensors and have our human workers carry them to map out, in real-time, key environmental factors?

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The Road Ahead: 6 Trends Shaping The Future of Auto Tech

The Road Ahead: 6 Trends Shaping The Future of Auto Tech | WHY IT MATTERS: Digital Transformation | Scoop.it

Interest in auto tech has risen dramatically in recent years. Technology has always been a staple of automotive research and development, but the past few years have seen a technology arms race as advances in IoT and artificial intelligence disciplines filter down to the automotive sector. Startup investment has risen dramatically as concepts once reserved for science fiction (like autonomous vehicles) move towards commercialization.

We analyzed the explosion of activity in the auto tech space using the CB Insights platform in our full webinar.

Farid Mheir's insight:

WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT

Automobile tech combines so many of the high tech solutions and technologies - from AI to new batteries - that it makes for a great case study to understand how much transportation will change in the coming years. And with it, the possibility of business transformation from eCommerce delivery to supply chain improvements to employee getting to work with little stress and no traffic jams.

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Tesla brings self-driving hardware to its entire fleet: see the #video for a glimpse into the future of "driving"

Tesla brings self-driving hardware to its entire fleet: see the #video for a glimpse into the future of "driving" | WHY IT MATTERS: Digital Transformation | Scoop.it

Tesla announced that beginning today, all the cars it builds will have the necessary hardware to drive completely on their own if the owner decides they want to enable the option. The full self-driving hardware suite will cost an additional $8,000.

Farid Mheir's insight:

1- First, look at the video at the end of the article.

 

2- Then, read the article to understand what Tesla is doing

 

3- Then, listen to this other video to understand that self-driving will be part of every new Tesla vehicle but will operate in "shadow mode".

https://www.wired.com/video/2016/10/nasa-s-pumpkin-carving-contest/ 

New Teslas will be self-driving and comparing their driving to what the human drivers did (and presumably learning from them). They will collect huge amounts of data, which will demonstrate that self-driving is safer than human driving.

 

4- Then, dive into this more complete description of the technology. 

https://www.wired.com/2016/10/teslas-self-driving-car-plan-seems-insane-just-might-work/ 

 

5- Then, look into this video of a self-driving delivery 18-wheeler that drove 200 miles without human intervention.

https://www.wired.com/2016/10/ubers-self-driving-truck-makes-first-delivery-50000-beers/

 

6- Realize this is not fiction but 2016 reality.

 

WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT

Self driving must find its way into every major corporation strategic plan. It will impact how retailers receive their products from factories and distribution centers. It will make eCommerce easier with lower cost delivery (which still accounts for 15 to 25% of the online total) and will enable same-day delivery. It will transform travel between large cities, and school bus for our kids. It will change the way ships carry their loads.

Self-driving will create a shockwave in human resources department and unions, which will fear the replacement of human drivers by machines. It will require appropriate communication, retraining, and investments to ensure a smooth transition into the new reality.

Don't worry this will not affect your 2017 bottom line. It won't even affect 2020's bottom line. So if you manage with a short term vision, life is good, stay the course, and forget everything I just said.

 

Others, call me!

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Comma.ai will ship a $999 autonomous driving add-on by the end of this year

Comma.ai will ship a $999 autonomous driving add-on by the end of this year | WHY IT MATTERS: Digital Transformation | Scoop.it

At TechCrunch Disrupt SF this year, famed iPhone and PlayStation hacker George Hotz unveiled the first official product of his automotive AI startup, Comma.ai. The Comma One is a $999 add-on shipping before the end of the year, with a $24 monthly subscription for its software, which Hotz says will be able to drive your car from Mountain View to San Francisco without requiring a driver to touch the wheel, the brake or the gas.

Farid Mheir's insight:

Read the article but you can skip the 7min video. For a better - and more relaxed - discussion, consider watching this 1hr interview full of descriptions of self-driving car insights: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zy_07g2IrM

 

For a more technical speech, view the Berkley presentation, even though there are elements that are redundant it provides additional insights into the technology: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hxoke1lDJ9w

 

WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT

His approach is radically different than others and more "purist" from an artificial intelligence and crowd sourcing and I believe that makes his approach something to consider in other areas.

 

For more reading on the subject, this bloomberg paper also brings good insights: http://www.bloomberg.com/features/2015-george-hotz-self-driving-car/

 

Moreover it appears that Google lead is slowly shrinking: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-09-12/google-car-project-loses-leaders-and-advantage-as-rivals-gain 

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The race for a driverless taxi service is on

The race for a driverless taxi service is on | WHY IT MATTERS: Digital Transformation | Scoop.it

Since the start of 2016, automakers, tech companies, and ride-hailing services have been racing to create a driverless taxi service. This service would mirror how an Uber works today, but there wouldn’t be a driver.

So far, the race has been brutal, as companies jockey for position by spending billions to acquire/invest in companies that will help make a driverless taxi service a reality. Uber recently took the pole position by announcing it would begin piloting its self-driving taxi service (with a driver still behind the wheel) in Pittsburgh later this month. But other companies, including almost every automaker, are quickly catching up as we reach the mid-way point in the driverless taxi race.

Farid Mheir's insight:

Promotion for a BI report on the subject of self-driving taxis

 

WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT

I find the diagram useful as it categorizes component suppliers, mobility services and automakers, showing where apple, uber, google cross the lines. It gives a simple representation of where to look for innovation in this space. And I assume the report is also good ;-)

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Uber Fleet of Driverless Cars Will Bring us to Level 3 in Autonomy

Uber Fleet of Driverless Cars Will Bring us to Level 3 in Autonomy | WHY IT MATTERS: Digital Transformation | Scoop.it
The autonomous cars, launching this summer, are custom Volvo XC90s, supervised by humans in the driver’s seat.
Farid Mheir's insight:

Detailed description of UBER self driving car project. Includes a great "maturity level" chart from the US NHTSA.

 

WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT

We are entering Level 3 of 4 is the self driving car innovation.

 

More news on this topic here:

http://www.wired.com/tag/autonomous-vehicles/ 

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BlackBerry's future: Making the Autonomous Cars More Secure?

BlackBerry's future: Making the Autonomous Cars More Secure? | WHY IT MATTERS: Digital Transformation | Scoop.it
In February 2010 a car dealership in Austin, Texas, was inundated by phone calls from over 100 irate customers. For some inexplicable reason, their cars wouldn’t start. To make matters worse, their car horns started to honk non-stop.
Farid Mheir's insight:

A description of BlackBerry's QNX technology and how it can be leveraged to make cars more secure.

 

WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT

This article raises a number of concerns regarding car security and the need to consider that security from the design and not as an after thought. It also opens a new area for BlackBerry, moving away from phones and into another consumer market. This ay prove the beginning of a new era for them. Who knows...

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The Internet of Everything: a review of trends, stats and forecast on #IoT

The Internet of Everything: a review of trends, stats and forecast on #IoT | WHY IT MATTERS: Digital Transformation | Scoop.it

BI Intelligence analyses how the growth of internet-connected devices, particularly the Internet of Things, will revolutionize our lives. 

The Internet of Everything

By 2020, more than 34 billion internet-connected devices will be installed globally — that's more than 4 devices for every human on earth.

BI Intelligence has developed a slide deck analyzing the growth of internet-connected devices — particularly the Internet of Things (IoT).

Farid Mheir's insight:

A 60 slide powerpoint presentation on Internet of Things, its current and future usage and penetration, possible uses, etc.

 

WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT

IoT is a major trend which should impact all businesses in the near future. This is a well researched document that provides very useful charts for anyone putting together strategic plans and roadmaps. It covers a wide variety of industries and applications, which shows how wide and deep the IoT revolution could be. Must read.

Abel Linares's curator insight, April 6, 2020 7:33 AM

BI Intelligence analyses how the growth of internet-connected devices, particularly the Internet of Things, will revolutionize our lives. The Internet of Everything By 2020, more than 34 billion internet-
connected devices will be installed
globally — that's more than 4 devices for every human on ...
#IoT #DigitalTransformation #Technology #Trends #Investment #Industry4.0

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Rolls-Royce expects remote-controlled cargo ships by 2020

Rolls-Royce expects remote-controlled cargo ships by 2020 | WHY IT MATTERS: Digital Transformation | Scoop.it
Rolls-Royce isn't limiting its robotic transportation plans to luxury cars. The British transportation firm has outlined a strategy for deployin
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Article that describes the efforts that Rolls Royces is making to develop autonomous ships in the near future. This appears to be a serious innovation supported by white paper and business case, although no prototypes have yet been built.

http://www.rolls-royce.com/~/media/Files/R/Rolls-Royce/documents/customers/marine/ship-intel/aawa-whitepaper-210616.pdf 

 

WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT

Although this remains an innovation project, it highlights how important digital transformation will be when applied to the real world, and not just email, websites and eCommerce. The bulk of our lives is spent in the real world and programmes such as this one and others will surely revolutionize transportation industry. And many others.

 

Companies that are serious about planning for the near term future (5 years out and +) should include these in their plans - which may require some leaders to think outside the box and look at areas they have considered outside the reach of computers and digital technology.

 

I wrote about Hyundai and Accenture working on connected smart ships in the past also : http://sco.lt/6xza9h

I also wrote about autonomous cars and trucks: http://www.scoop.it/t/digital-transformation-of-businesses/?tag=Automobile 

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CARS OF THE FUTURE: TECH AND APPS WILL MAKE YOU RIDE NOT DRIVE

CARS OF THE FUTURE: TECH AND APPS WILL MAKE YOU RIDE NOT DRIVE | WHY IT MATTERS: Digital Transformation | Scoop.it

Ride-hailing apps such as Lyft and Ola are not only challenging taxi drivers around the world, they are also disrupting the car industry as a whole as people prefer to hail a ride than buy their own set of wheels.

 

Part of "The Disrupters" - a series about industries undergoing transformation.

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A short video about the transformation that UBER, Lyft and other ride sharing and autonomous car driving companies are having on work, travel, car ownership, car design, etc.

 

WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT

Like the cellphone before it, ride sharing has the potential to impact companies in fields such as distribution and logistics. I expect this may be the most profound impact that "uber" model may have yet all the attention these days seems to be on end user benefits - taxis replacement - when the use of uber to deliver groceries at walmart may actually be the most important impact on our daily lives. No?

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State of the Internet 2016: web stalls, voice+image recognition & car revolution grow

State of the Internet 2016: web stalls, voice+image recognition & car revolution grow | WHY IT MATTERS: Digital Transformation | Scoop.it

At 213 pages, there's a ton of data, but here are our Top 3 takeaways.

1) The internet itself is seeing slowing growth. In the past two decades, the internet economy was affected by macroeconomic trends, but it was external issues like the housing crisis and the financial crisis that were driving the slowdown. Now it is global internet growth itself that is slowing down.

2) Typing text into a search bar is so last year. In five years, at least 50 percent of all searches are going to be either images or speech.

3) The home screen has acted as the de facto portal on mobile devices since the arrival of the iPhone and even before. Messaging apps, with context and time, have a chance to rival the home screen as the go-to place for interaction.

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218 slides of jammed packed information. Soon I will be able to blog one slide of this Mary Meeker State of the Internet annual presentation per day for the whole year. Wow...

 

WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT

This is an annual event for digital experts: the state of the Internet. This year, it focusses on deep learning (think voice+image recognition) and cars. Because really the Internet growth is slowing down. So is mobile phone usage. The trend thus appears to be what we build on top of the Internet and not the Internet itself. Finally.

 

Every company executive and board member should listen to this talk. Even if you don't understand everything you should ask yourself: how is our company positioned to address those trends? In most cases I assume the answer will be: we are not. This should be cause for concern and action.

 

For previous year presentations, go to http://www.scoop.it/t/digital-transformation-of-businesses/?q=meeker 

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The First Person to Hack the iPhone Built a Self-Driving Car. In His Garage.

The First Person to Hack the iPhone Built a Self-Driving Car. In His Garage. | WHY IT MATTERS: Digital Transformation | Scoop.it
A few days before Thanksgiving, George Hotz, a 26-year-old hacker, invites me to his house in San Francisco to check out a project he’s been working on. He says it’s a self-driving car that he had built in about a month. The claim seems absurd. But when I turn up that morning, in his garage there’s a white 2016 Acura ILX outfitted with a laser-based radar (lidar) system on the roof and a camera mounted near the rearview mirror. A tangle of electronics is attached to a wooden board where the glove compartment used to be, a joystick protrudes where you’d usually find a gearshift, and a 21.5-inch screen is attached to the center of the dash. “Tesla only has a 17-inch screen,” Hotz says.
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The story of a very bright kid that unleashes the power of deep learning and machine intelligence to tech his car how to drive. And it seems to be working. Someone to look at very carefully.

 

But also a story about the power that these new tools have on our world and should be leveraged more aggressively by corporations.

 

Look at the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTrgRYa2wbI

Numalis's curator insight, March 15, 2016 3:32 AM
Technology is really accelerating. What an expert can do in one month could take years before. This is as exciting as it is uncontrollable. The only remaining question is to know if simple and fast prototyping could be a good canvas to build upon for safe and efficient designs.
Emeric Bailleul's curator insight, March 15, 2016 5:05 AM

The story of a very bright kid that unleashes the power of deep learning and machine intelligence to tech his car how to drive. And it seems to be working. Someone to look at very carefully.

 

But also a story about the power that these new tools have on our world and should be leveraged more aggressively by corporations.

 

Look at the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTrgRYa2wbI

Murphy Ben International 's curator insight, March 16, 2016 4:20 PM

The story of a very bright kid that unleashes the power of deep learning and machine intelligence to tech his car how to drive. And it seems to be working. Someone to look at very carefully.

 

But also a story about the power that these new tools have on our world and should be leveraged more aggressively by corporations.

 

Look at the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTrgRYa2wbI

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The Autonomous Winter Is Coming

The Autonomous Winter Is Coming | WHY IT MATTERS: Digital Transformation | Scoop.it

Winter is coming for car manufacturers. An Autonomous Winter, without end. If you’ve seen what Tesla is doing with Autopilot, and all they plan to do with it, you’ve already seen the future. Now it’s up to automakers to figure out what they want to be in this new world as quickly as possible.

Farid Mheir's insight:

Very good article on the transformation coming to the automobile industry due to driverless cars. I found the topic interesting because of the driverless technologies involved and the opportunity for transformation in companies both large and small. But in fact there seems to be something more profound about to happen: 2 new business models are emerging.


The author splits the world of car makers between those that will be in the mobility space and those that will be in the driving space. All car manufacturers were both until now.


But more important the author notes that autonomous cars will mean fewer cars on the road and way less cars sold: up to 70% less cars sold in fact. This will be a huge earthquake in the auto industry, basically meaning that the market will be cut down by two thirds. Wow.


I assume car owners will also have to make the choice between acquiring a car for mobility or driving purpose. Very interesting questions.

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The auto industry is about to migrate to a new world, thanks Farid for this very good scoop.

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This Is Big: A Robo-Car Just Drove Across the Country

This Is Big: A Robo-Car Just Drove Across the Country | WHY IT MATTERS: Digital Transformation | Scoop.it
Nine days, 15 states, and 3,400 miles after leaving San Francisco, Delphi's autonomous car arrived in New York City.
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11 years ago the DARPA challenge for an autonomous car to drive across 150 miles in the desert resulted in no car being able to cross the finish line. Today, cars can drive 99% of the way across North America in autonomous mode, and Google self-driving cars has many million miles of driving experience behind its autonomous wheel. Where will we be 10 years from now (hey, I'll only be 60 then!)?


As Elon Musk recently said, in 20 years owning a car will be like owning a horse - http://bit.ly/1SCn0PF.


WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT

As I wrote about previously (http://bit.ly/1SCna9O), self-driving cars and other autonomous driving will be a revolution for commercial deliveries (autonomous semi-trailer truck now testing in Nevada http://bit.ly/1SCocm2) and other mundane tasks like commuting to work. The economies this may bring to forward thinking companies are enormous.

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