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Disruptive technologies and innovation
ChessMaster
#1 Posted : Thursday, December 13, 2012 9:13:37 PM
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Basically these are technologies and innovations that change/destroy industries and our way of doing business.For example how computers destroyed typewriters.Now we have M-pesa and M-shwari in the financial industry.GPS is yet to be utilized in Kenya to its full extent but when a majority of phones have GPS it will change the distribution systems and security in Kenya.For example, an app that you can make orders and automatically takes your GPS location as the place to deliver.These are all in the beginning stages but will be common place in the future.What other technologies or innovations do you see defining our future?
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hisah
#2 Posted : Friday, December 14, 2012 6:42:22 AM
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- Solar window
- Graphene
- Wireless electricity (Nokia Lumia has rolled out wireless charging)
- Cold fusion as a power gen means as well as heating means!
- Stem cell bio-engineering to regrow damaged organs or limbs
- Tablets to replace books
- Electric automobile - to aid oil use switch off
$15/barrel oil... The commodities lehman moment arrives as well as Sovereign debt volcano!
tycho
#3 Posted : Friday, December 14, 2012 8:32:36 AM
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All technology is disruptive, read Newton's law of inertia.

The other technology that is gaining ground is energics or energetics, which seeks to fuse the micro and macro worlds in a way that obeys the human will.
danny6
#4 Posted : Friday, December 14, 2012 8:45:23 AM
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@chessMaster

Joseph Schumpeter's theory 'creative destruction' would be a nice read for you

http://samvak.tripod.com/pp155.html
Money Whisperer
#5 Posted : Friday, December 14, 2012 11:06:30 AM
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There's an ad ya Nissan Leaf concept that shows a lady charging her car driving all day and coming back home in the evening connects the mains to the car and lights up her home using the car's power. I'm just like Wow!
"Money never sleeps"
Mukiri
#6 Posted : Friday, December 14, 2012 2:06:09 PM
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Car fueled by urine
Biogas from human waste
Kenya's recent patent, the solar lamp
Smart phone apps eg Birth control, Health check up, Banking and money transfer

Proverbs 19:21
josiah33
#7 Posted : Sunday, December 16, 2012 6:44:58 PM
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Mercedes Benz BIOME CONCEPT-A car grown in the lab.


http://www.tgdaily.com/s...ncept-car-to-grow-in-lab
ChessMaster
#8 Posted : Sunday, December 16, 2012 8:37:49 PM
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Thanks again people for contributing.Good things here.
@danny6 - I encountered Schumpter while researching on innovation.Sad story but it happens to people like him.Innovate or die though in Kenya competition doesn't seem to yield to innovation just price slashing.

@hisah - Solar windows will change everything.The aim is to transfer energy generation and distribution to the hands of the people.Buildings and houses generate energy and any excess is transferred to the grid through wireless technologies.

@mukiri - mobile technology will be everywhere.Internet of things is the phrase.

@tycho - energetics sounds very interesting.

@Money Whisperer - I'll check into the nissan leaf concept.Sounds interesting

@josiah33 - That blew me away.

-Resource management will be part of organizations e.g. energy consumption,water,pollution levels.
-Flexible touch surfaces(this I got here from wazua)
-Nanotechnology and Biotechnology are the foundations of this century and help solve many problems.
-Cloud computing will destroy a good percentage of the jobs in networking.
-Data scientists will be the new analysts.Big data - Statistics,programming and a broad knowledge base to decipher meaning from large sets of data.
-Video calling will be common place.
-3D and Virtual reality will be the entertainment route
-Augmented reality and advertising will merge seamlessly.
-Processors will be extremely cheap,small and fast.
-AI and Machine Learning will be embraced more to assist decision making and other automations.
-API boom - APIs for everything and anything will be the order of the day.

So far key areas of note - Energy,Transportation,Communication,Alternative Resources,Health.
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chemos
#9 Posted : Monday, December 17, 2012 3:36:33 PM
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Hizi vitu zoote na dunia inaisha friday!!!
kryptonite
#10 Posted : Monday, December 17, 2012 4:53:55 PM
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chemos wrote:
Hizi vitu zoote na dunia inaisha friday!!!


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#11 Posted : Monday, December 17, 2012 5:02:35 PM
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Internet everything...banking, shopping, learning...
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#12 Posted : Tuesday, December 18, 2012 11:08:58 AM
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[quote=josiah33]Mercedes Benz BIOME CONCEPT-A car grown in the lab.
http://www.tgdaily.com/s...cept-car-to-grow-in-lab[/quote]

I'd love to study the prolonged impact harvesting of BioNectar will have on trees
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majimaji
#13 Posted : Friday, December 21, 2012 9:50:20 AM
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Whoever designs a better mouse trap will hit the jackpot
Mukiri
#14 Posted : Friday, December 21, 2012 11:17:03 AM
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majimaji wrote:

Whoever designs a better mouse trap will hit the jackpot


Laughing out loudly Laughing out loudly They are bugging you?

Proverbs 19:21
mwasjd
#15 Posted : Saturday, December 22, 2012 6:58:54 AM
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3D printing is the biggest game changer in the manufacturing industry. Google it and be amazed.
ChessMaster
#16 Posted : Thursday, December 27, 2012 3:20:35 PM
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3D printing has been here for about 20years.It's now getting more coverage because it's more accessible to now and with the open source movement you cacn download more specs for free.Yes it will change the manufacturing industry but only when they find a way to make the materials recyclable.So when you print a product and new developments are made you just reprint it using the same materials but just buy the new plans
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jonna
#17 Posted : Friday, December 28, 2012 3:57:19 PM
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Another Apple and Samsung being stir fried at the moment.

Yota Devices is betting on its soon-to-be revealed dual-screen product to break the mold of mobile technology—combining a traditional LCD screen on one side and an electronic-paper display on the other, allowing for seamless information streaming while promising better battery life than the average smartphone.

"We created this to be different," said the company's 43-year-old chief executive, Vladislav Martynov, while demonstrating a prototype at his sleek Moscow office filled with antique telephones. "Most phones nowadays are boring—they are just boxes. This is a phone for people who want to be outside that box."

A team of 35 engineers with a budget of $25 million worked since May to bring the concept into reality, he said

http://online.wsj.com/ar...SJ_hps_sections_business
Energy.
jonna
#18 Posted : Friday, December 28, 2012 4:03:48 PM
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Shape shifting smart phone screen.

Tactus Technology, a startup in Fremont, California, is prototyping touch-screen hardware with buttons that emerge when you need the feel of a physical keyboard and disappear when you don’t. The approach, in which a fluid-filled plastic panel and cylindrical fluid reservoir replace the usual top layer of glass, is among a crop of emerging technologies aimed at adding tactile feedback to make screens feel like old-fashioned keyboards.

http://www.technologyrev...smartphone-touch-screen/
Energy.
jonna
#19 Posted : Friday, December 28, 2012 4:46:24 PM
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Five Technologies to Watch in 2013

1. Wireless charging

This may be the year we recall as having finally sent wireless charging on its way (see “The Long and Winding Road to Wireless Charging”). As an IHS analyst recently put it to a CNET reporter, “we are getting closer to the mainstream.” Around five million devices using wireless charging were sold in 2012, but we might see numbers closer to 100 million in the coming two to three years (see “Wireless Charging–Has Its Time Finally Arrived?”). Madison Square Garden and Virgin Atlantic are among those who have started to build out some wireless charging infrastructure for sports fans and frequent flyers.

http://www.technologyrev...logies-to-watch-in-2013/
Energy.
D32
#20 Posted : Sunday, December 30, 2012 5:39:03 PM
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Mind Control - Not the mind being controlled, but using the mind to control the world around:

Basically, using the mind to control the external, such as a robotic arm to do tasks, playing games (Not with a hardware controller, but with the mind as the controller) etc...

http://www.nature.com/ne...ms-show-promise-1.10652

http://online.wsj.com/ar...577426251091339254.html

The potential:

- Type documents, sms
- Control the cursor
- Drive with mind - Alternatively, there are self driving cars

http://www.forbes.com/si...will-take-over-by-2040/

http://edition.cnn.com/2...r-california/index.html

- Change channels
- Control the lights
- Flush
- Open Gate, doors, garage
- Control curtain
- Control Oven, Stove

Basically, mind control technology can disrupt what used to be done by hand.
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