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Disruptive TechnologiesBy Bader Abdulaziz Kanoo
Research & Innovation Summit
March 8th 2017
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Disruptive TechnologiesA disruptive technology is one that
displaces an established technology and shakes up the industry or a ground-breaking
product that creates a completely new industry.
3D PRINTING
Create objects by printing them, just input a design and raw materials.
Status: typical technological innovation that will get better, faster, cheaper exponentially.
Common in aerospace, orthopedic and dental applications. Fast adoption in oil, gas and
military
Status: unstoppable avalanche. Think years, not decades.
AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES
Remove the driver from the vehicle (car, airplane, ship).
Status: closely follows the progress in machine learning and artificial intelligence though it does not need to be a ML/AI solution itself.
As with all autonomous and AI-based technology: ethical and legal issues to be solved, certainly when applied for military purposes.
Requires large investments in infrastructure.
Status: very large industry effort to get this thing going. General-purpose full autonomy not anytime soon but already very useable partial autonomy.
THE INTERNET OF THINGS
Everything connected to the internet, like a bionic layer over planet earth.
From large industrial machines to MEMS (micro electromechanical sensors).
Typical, predictable technological innovation: will get faster, cheaper FAST!
Huge privacy and security issues, a hackers paradise.
Status: unstoppable avalanche. Think years, not decades
Programs that are ‘intelligent’
‘By 2029 no computer or machine intelligence will have passed the Turing test’
Status: already widespread use for specialized tasks, first general purpose AI (the Alpha GO) self-teaches and outplays humans on Go and Atari-games.
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Organisms created to genetic specification.
Status: overhyped, little progress since the disappointing Human Genome Project. Big ethical issues. We can modify plants to grow human collagen, not much more
Genetic determinism still just an dream. Genomics stumbling from one failing hypothesis to another.
Being able to decode or edit a genome does not mean understanding it. At all. It takes more than CRISPR.
Greedy investment climate because of big, patentable promises.
DESIGNER SPECIES
BIONICS(mind-controlled) exoskeletons, prosthetics, body-parts and super-senses.
Partly in realm of engineering and as such will see the same (albeit more uneven) exponential progress (3D-printing, materials, electronics etc). The neurological / biological part of the tech will remain difficult.
Successful neural interfaces within a decade.
Status: successful on disabled people but won’t be popular among healthy people soon because mechanics still very inferior to organics.
THE COLLABORATIVE ECONOMYAn economy in which machines,
algorithms and people are producing and sharing things without much bureaucracy or central planning.
An ecosystem of platforms.
Task-based economy, not job-based. Very compatible with robots and AI.
Like the industrial economy, it too will be owned by a few people.
Status: taking over right now, resisted big time. Think decades not years.
BITCOIN
Cash money over the internet.
No need for banks or governments.
First application of ‘the blockchain’.
Decentralizing technology.
Status: proven, stable, secure technology. Ready for take off. All it needs is a good old fashioned financial crisis.
THE BLOCKCHAIN
The decentralized ledger. Eliminates the need for trusted or intermediate parties when transacting.
Blockchains enable property (incl. money) to be exchanged and assigned instantly, undisputable, secure
and internetted.
Makes any property ‘cash’ property.
“On the blockchain, nobody knows you’re a fridge”, allows machines to become economic actors.
ANTI-GRAVITY DEVICES
‘Electrogravitics’. Manipulating gravity like we can manipulate electromagnetism and light.
To be able to generate, shield, store, emit etc. gravity.
Gravity is not described by quantum theory unlike all other (known) fundamental forces. Only scientific theory is in classical physics not particle physics.
Status: waiting for a very fundamental scientific breakthrough
OVERUNITY ENERGY DEVICES
The absolute holy grail of innovation and technology: devices that produce more energy than they use by drawing from ‘the zero-point field’.
Limitless, free energy.
Would instantly promote mankind to a type I or II civilization on the Kardashev scale.
‘The legacy of Nikolai Tesla’
Status: still very much in the realm of myth and conspiracy theory.
‘Proven in hundreds of laboratories around the world’ --Dr. Brian O’Leary, Ph.D, scientist, author, Princeton/Cornell physics professor, and former NASA astronaut.
BIOLOGY IS THE ULTIMATE TECHNOLOGY
Nature invented 3D printing billion years ago (morphogenesis). Has been running an internet for millions of years (mycelia).
Is using quantum technology for millions of years (bird navigation). Etc.
A human cell has 10 billion moving parts, more complicated than a modern nuclear submarine. Your body has 370 trillion such cells.
Science not very successful in understanding nature because she doesn’t fit the mechanistic paradigm. Her most common trick (self-
organization, homeostasis, anti-chaos) has no scientific explanation.
Nature is the master of exponentiality and crowdsourcing. It’s everywhere.
For solutions, always look to nature first! Bio-mimicry.
‘The more technology evolves, the more it will become biological’
FACTORY WORKER
FACTORY WORKER
Cost: $5 per replaced worker
per day!
AMAZON AUTOMATED WAREHOUSE
SECURITY GUARD, UBER PARKING
SNIPER
PIZZA DELIVERY GUY
ROBO CHEFF
AI LAWYER ‘ROSS’
FARM WORKERS
LET US HOPE FOR THE BEST
Houston
Technology Center-
Middle East
US -Asia- Middle East
Technology Pipeline
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“1 of 10 Technology
Incubators Changing
the World”
“1 of 12 Business
Incubators Changing
the World”
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International Business Magazine
Open Innovation = Better R&D
HTC- Middle East will accelerate and optimize the R&D efforts of
leading multinational corporations via Open Innovation
“The central idea behind open innovation is that, in a world of widely distributed
knowledge, companies cannot afford to rely entirely on their own research,
but should instead buy or license processes or inventions (i.e. patents) from other
companies.”*
“Open innovation is a paradigm that assumes that firms can and should use
external ideas as well as internal ideas, and internal and external paths to
market, as the firms look to advance their technology”**
Open Innovation was first promoted by Henry Chesbrough, a professor and
executive director at the Center for Open Innovation at the University of California,
Berkeley.
“It is understood as the systematic encouragement and exploration of a wide
range of internal and external sources for innovative opportunities, the
integration of this exploration with firm capabilities and resources, and the
exploitation of these opportunities through multiple channels.”***
HTC’s “Open InnovationProcess” intimately embeds corporate partners
within its growing ecosystem of hundreds of start up U.S. technology
companies. HTC is an external extension and accelerator for your internal
technology scouting and R&D teams.
*Chesbrough, Henry William (2003). "The era of open innovation". MIT Sloan Management Review
**Chesbrough, Henry William (1 March 2003). Open Innovation: The new imperative for creating and profiting from technology. Boston: Harvard Business Schoo
***West, J.; Gallagher, S. (2006). "Challenges of open innovation: The paradox of firm investment in open-source software". R and D Management
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Start Ups + Large Companies
HTC – Middle East connects BIGIDEAS to solve BIG PROBLEMSfor BIG COMPANIES
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OPPORTUNITIES
Connect corporations with an extensive ecosystem of
emerging disruptive technologies:
JV’s International
Licensing
Product
Testing
Strategic
Partnerships
Business
Development
Corporate
Venture
Capital
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Win-Win Collaborations
Start ups are great at
innovating but have
trouble commercializing
and scaling….
Big companies are great
at commercializing and
scaling but have trouble
innovating.
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How does USA.inc manage innovation
•Collaboration with innovators
•Support of Startups
•Acquisition of ideas and companies that
are early stratus
•Decentralized innovation model which is
highly cost effective
Focused Divisions
ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES –
Fossil, Petro-Chemicals, CCUS,
Clean, Green, Renewable
Alternative, & Water Technologies
LIFE SCIENCES –
Bio & Nano Technologies
& Medical Devices
INDUSTRIAL ITNASA –
Aerospace,
Aeronautics,
Robotics
A nexus of new ideas, technological innovation, and entrepreneurship for these four verticals.
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THANK YOU!!
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