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WOBI on Digital Future

with Nicholas Negroponte

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Looking beyond digital and better understand upcoming challenges and opportunities

Learn about the future of connectedness, connectivity and their impact on business

Discover how innovation and creativity will be affected by our digital future

Understand the challenges associated with powering our digital lives

Digital transformation managers

Executives in charge of preparing their organization for the digital challenges of the future

Leaders responsible for driving innovation within their company

Nicholas Negroponte, architect and computer scientist, is the unquestioned guru of technology and its impact on society and business. Founder and director of MIT Media LAb (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and OLPC (One Laptop per Child), he is considered one of the leading authorities on the transformations that define our future. Negroponte gained worldwide fame and recognition after the publication of his book Being Digital, in which he predicted a future in which digital technology would become an intimate part of everyday life.

SESSION 1

01 Being Digital

What created the Internet? A look at “packets” and the nature of bits
Why biotech is the new digital
The future of Artificial Intelligence and Collective intelligence
The business advantages of digital
What’s next? Globalization 2.0

02 The Future of Connectedness and Connectivity

Understanding what bandwidth really means and why it is important
What is next for telecommunications: Wireless; Satellites; Net Neutrality
The future of interface: Sensing based, language based and direct brain interfaces

SESSION 2

03 Innovation: The Best Way to Predict the Future is to Invent it

Reflections on creativity: On differences, complexity and contradiction
Why citizens are not customers – and the importance understanding that distinction
Revisiting entrepreneurship
Rethinking competition, capitalism and the roots of collaboration

04 Powering digital life

How much energy do we need?
Why being sustainable is the wrong goal: Doing the unimaginable
The potential opportunity cost of renewable energy
Why fusion is the long-term solution: Thinking nuclear and small

Looking beyond digital and better understand upcoming challenges and opportunities

Learn about the future of connectedness, connectivity and their impact on business

Discover how innovation and creativity will be affected by our digital future

Understand the challenges associated with powering our digital lives

Digital transformation managers

Executives in charge of preparing their organization for the digital challenges of the future

Leaders responsible for driving innovation within their company

Nicholas Negroponte, architect and computer scientist, is the unquestioned guru of technology and its impact on society and business. Founder and director of MIT Media LAb (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and OLPC (One Laptop per Child), he is considered one of the leading authorities on the transformations that define our future. Negroponte gained worldwide fame and recognition after the publication of his book Being Digital, in which he predicted a future in which digital technology would become an intimate part of everyday life.

SESSION 1

01

Beyond Digital

What created the Internet? A look at “packets” and the nature of bits
Why biotech is the new digital
The future of Artificial Intelligence and Collective intelligence
The business advantages of digital
What’s next? Globalization 2.0

02

The Future of Connectedness and Connectivity

Understanding what bandwidth really means and why it is important
What is next for telecommunications: Wireless; Satellites; Net Neutrality
The future of interface: Sensing based, language based and direct brain interfaces

SESSION 2

03

Innovation: The Best Way to Predict the Future is to Invent it

Reflections on creativity: On differences, complexity and contradiction
Why citizens are not customers – and the importance understanding that distinction
Revisiting entrepreneurship
Rethinking competition, capitalism and the roots of collaboration

04

Powering Digital Life