Den Haag Inspiration Event 2014 Keynote:
In the recent past, we've seen science fiction slowly quickly becoming reality. From communications, to medicine, to mobile, we've seen the weight of industries getting behind some part of that vision, and pushing it to come to pass. Smart cities seem to be next on the path from science fiction to actualized reality. As cities and their residents become smarter, how can telecom and information services manifest shifts in usage, fostering opportunities to not just make dreams real, but invoke new dreams to aspire towards.
Introduction
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Story
Who Am I
Restate Abstract
In the recent past, we've seen science fiction slowly quickly becoming reality. From communications, to medicine, to mobile, we've seen the weight of industries getting behind some part of that vision, and pushing it to come to pass. Smart cities seem to be next on the path from science fiction to actualized reality. As cities and their residents become smarter, how can telecom and information services manifest shifts in usage, fostering opportunities to not just make dreams real, but invoke new dreams to aspire towards.
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And so, with this narrative of smart cities, its helpful to consider where the rubber will meet the road - or at least produce chocolate. Certainly, it cannot be the technology or the policies. This has been tried before. And even the concept of smart cities isn’t a new one - in Adam Greenfield’s Against the Smart City, he cites several pieces of literature - predating his own esteemed works - which paint that the impetitus behind smart cities happened earlier than now. As early as the 1960s in terms of a formal definition, earlier still if you consider my previous statements about cities such as Philadelphia which were designed for certain economic gains.
I think there are four spokes to this idea of smart cities, and these are the modes in which government and industry can get behind the people who will make the city smart.
Respond
Shift
Present
Invoke
Respond
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Everything we talk about these days starts with how we respond to this (open access, mobility, franchised services) or that. And response is good. Response is stimuli acted upon. Response can be measured. Response can be instigated. Response cannot be predicted.
You can design a smart city, but you can’t design its response
Respond
What has telecomm done to respond to the change brought about by mobile/mobility
Attainable devices
Suitable connectivity between devices and service-enablers
Flat and variable-rate pricing models
Shift
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Shift implies change. Shift implies motion and being at the same time. Shift has perspective - controlled and controller. There are those who prepare for a shift, and end up being where the ground settles; and there are those caught off guard by the shift and either make adjustments to stand, or fall.
Shift
What has telecomm done to shift our landscape (mother and daughter on phones at coffeeshop)
From voice-centric to data/video-centric
Look to the next tech-step
What does telecomm do in the places its role has shifted
Become a fast-follower
Become an advocate
Become a co-creator
Present
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Present can mean to unveil. Present means moment now. Present is an indication we give to state we are in the moment. Present also means we withheld a part of what we know about someone for them to come across pleasantly soon. Present cannot mean the future, because what we present in the present means we have taken the future and made it now.
Present
What is the present reality of telecom
Transport/Pipe
Bank
Canvas
Enabler
Invoke
Invoke is like shift, but with force. Invoke involves taking the present and making a determined perspective to be responded to. Invoke means to persuade the narrative - but not its results. To invoke gives us the power to sharpen what we thought we knew. What we hoped hasn't already been sparked in us, that we are responding to in this present moment that has shifted right before us.
“When consumers adopt new technologies, they do old things in new ways. When they internalize technology, they begin to do new things”
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