L01 New Technology 2017 Course Description
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This document provides an introduction to a course on new technology in 2017. It outlines the course topics which will cover various aspects of technological evolution and innovation. The instructor is Ólafur Andri Ragnarsson and resources include required readings, optional readings, websites for keeping up with technology news, and the research paper assignment which will comprise 40% of the course grade. Students will form research study groups to provide peer reviews of draft papers. The course will utilize various online resources and all lectures will be recorded.
L01 New Technology 2017 Course Description
- 1. New Technology 2017 Course Introduction
- 2. Ólafur Andri Ragnarsson Adjunct at Reykjavik University Technical Visionary for Novomatic Lottery Solutions (Betware) Founder Raw Fury Games Board of Directors: Azazo, Solid Clouds, IGI, SSG Teacher
- 3. Ólafur Andri Ragnarsson andri@ru.is http://www.olafurandri.com http://twitter.com/olandri @olandri is.linkedin.com/in/olandri Office hours after Friday lecture Teacher
- 5. The Adjacent Possible Disruptive Technology Software and Machine Learning Becoming Invisible Evolution of Technology Exponential World The Rise of the Machine How Innovation Happens Diffusion of Innovation Big Data and Visualisation The Innovator´s Dilemma Software and Artificial Intelligence Augmented and Virtual Reality The Broadcast Century A Worldwide Network The Mobile Revolution The Social Layer Games The Internet of Things Digital TransformationGamifcation Future Trends Robotics and Drones Contents
- 6. What does technology mean? How do we define technology? The Study of People L02 Evolution of Technology
- 7. Waves of development What exponential means? Local and linear vs. global and exponential Moore’s Law L03 Exponential World
- 8. Why are things invented when they are? Layers of technology L04 The Adjacent Possible
- 9. Elements of revolutions L05 Technological Revolutions INSTALLATION PERIOD TURNING POINT DEPLOYMENT Age of Information 1971 Internet mania and financial casino 2000 & 2008 The New Golden Age? Importance of crashes Installation and deployment periods Are we in a new Golden Age?
- 10. How does technology evolve? The Slow Hunch Liquid NetworkSerendipity L06 Innovation
- 11. Why do people adopt new technology? Why do good technologies fail and inferior succeed? What are customers really buying? Crossing the Chasm The Hype Cycle L07 Diffusion of Innovation
- 12. When products mature, technology is irrelevant Importance of style and emotion Why engineers are bad designers L08 Becoming Invisible
- 13. Technologies that change everything Why do businesses always fail to respond? Reactions to disruptive technologies L09 Disruptive Technology
- 14. Making all the right decisions and still failing Why listening to your customers is fatal L10 The Innovator's Dilemma Why sell cheap version when you have high-end product?
- 15. The transformation of the TV industry is beginning TV of the Future The Cognitive Surplus End of the Movie Start The Long Tail L11 The Broadcast Century The Power Law
- 16. L12 Digital Transformation The Business of Music Beyond selling digital copies Freeconomics Freemiums Sharing Economics of connecting Millennials
- 17. From adding machines to electronic brains to general purpose computersDisruption of Automation Birth of the IT industry MITS Altair 8800 How IBM created an industry L13 The Rise of the Machine
- 18. Xerox Parc Beginning of GUIs L14 Software and Artificial Intelligence Artificial Intelligence Mobile Machine Learning Importance of software Rise of algorithms
- 19. Rise of data L15 Big Data and Analytics Analysing data Digital Footsteps Intelligent data Visualisations
- 20. Beyond the Desktop Touch, gesture and audio New User Interfaces Displays anywhere L16 Augmented and Virtual Reality The DEMO of the Century
- 21. The Accidental network Brief History of the Internet The Future of the Internet The Wi-Fi revolution Standards RFID Near-field communications L17 From the Internet to Blockchain
- 22. Cellular networks Generations Smartphones The iPhone effect L18 The Mobile Revolution The most powerful technology of the 21st century (so far)
- 23. Everything connected From Products to smart to ecosystems L19 Internet of Things Devices communicating The Smart Home Hacking the Refrigerator The Intelligent Doornop
- 24. P2P UGC Collaboration Crowdsourcing The Long Tail Folksonomy L20 The Social Network
- 25. Checking in Mining the digital footprint Exploiting context Machine learning The Local in SoLoMo Predictive Intelligence Big Data L21 Importance of Local
- 26. The rise of computer games The crash of 1986 Multiplayer games Serious games Casual games Future of games Gamification Why you’re surgeon should play video games Status and rewards Player types Player emotions L22 Games and Gamification
- 27. Race against the machine Personal programmable robots Drones Future of Work L23 Robotics and Drones
- 28. What’s next? Virtual reality is more real than reality Your phone will tell you what you need to know L24 The Future
- 29. New Technology 2017 Course Introduction
- 30. Textbook New Technology text available as PDF Reading material are articles or videos from the Internet Some are posted on http://olafurandri.com Reading is either required or optional All readings will be posted on the course web The book covers the first 10 lectures (maybe more)
- 31. see http://www.olafurandri.com/?cat=3 Interesting books Alasdair Nairn: Engines That Move Markets Clayton M. Christensen: The Innovators Dilemma Geoffrey A. Moore: Crossing the Chasm Malcolm Gladwell: The Tipping Point The Invisible Computer: Donald A. Norman
- 32. see http://www.olafurandri.com/?cat=3 Interesting books Steve Johnson: Where do good ideas come from Kevin Kelly: What Technology Wants Jane McGonigal: Reality is Broken Ray Kurzweil: The Singularity is Near Jonathan Zittrain: The Future of the Internet and how to Stop it
- 33. see http://www.olafurandri.com/?cat=3 Interesting books Simon Sinek: Start with why Steven Johnson: How we got to now Eric Schmidt et. al.: The New Digital Age Peter Thiel: Zero to one Nick Bilton: I live in the Future
- 34. http://www.olafurandri.com/?page_id=1490 Economist - http://www.economist.com Technology Review - http://www.technologyreview.com NY Times - http://www.nytimes.com Businessweek - http://www.businessweek.com/ ZDNet technology News - http://news.zdnet.com/ CNet - http://www.cnet.com/ (news.cnet.com) Google News - http://news.google.com Yahoo Finance News - http://finance.yahoo.com/ Ars Technica - http://arstechnica.com/ Wired - http://www.wired.com/ Guardian - http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology Technology Trends - http://olafurandri.com Interesting web sites
- 36. Trend!
- 38. Grading Assignments Three assignments 40% (15%, 15%, 10%) In-class Exercises Participation in class (10%) Research Paper Draft 5% Review 5% Research paper 40%
- 39. Research Objectives Term project Study or research of a particular topic chosen by the student Must be approved by the teacher Area of study Can be a device, a concept, a trend, a standard, philosophy or a metaphor, or a particular product Gather information and write a paper Best papers will be published Your research starts now!
- 40. Research Milestones: Research topic selection is due 25.01 (week 3) Research outline is due 08.02 (week 5) Research Paper Draft for Peer Review is due 22.02 (week 7) Peer-Review is due 08.03 (week 9) Paper is due 22.03 (week 11, after Easter break) Research Paper is an individual work and is 40% of the course grade Draft and Peer-review is 10%
- 41. Research Study Group Group of 4-5 students - randomly selected Will read your paper and give you review Valuable service Peer review
- 42. Assignments Three assignments 15%, 15%, 10% Questions about the contents in the reading and lecture
- 43. In class exercises Aim is to think about the material and/or discuss in class Student participation These are in class only - not online and not later
- 44. Web Site Course Web Site in MySchool Teacher’s web site: http://www.olafurandri.com Twitter: @olandri #nyti
- 45. Online Resources MySchool - primary source Piazza for discussions Turnitin for assignments Slides are in Slideshare Audio slides on Vimeo New Technology 2017 channel
- 46. Online Resources All lectures are recorded New Technology channel on Vimeo
- 52. NEXT L02 Evolution of Technology