2. Deodorant Test
• How many of you are on Twitter?
• Who was born after 1990?
• Who used WordPerfect?
• Who used 3½” floppy disks?
• Who used 5¼” floppy disks?
• Who used typewriters?
• Who did handwritten translations?
8. “The closer your vision gets to a
provable future, the more your are
simply describing the present. In the
same way, the more certain you are
of a future outcome, the more likely
you will be wrong.”
The Visionary’s Handbook
Wacker & Taylor
9. • Is someone already doing it?
(Description of the present)
• Is it plausible that someone is
already doing it or is the issue easily
solvable with existing technology?
(Provable future)
• Do we really need it? (Subtractive
prophecy)
10. The bigger the world
economy, the more
powerful its smallest
players.
1994
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13. What About the Facts?
• MT is a new lingua franca
– Chinese to Slovenian
– Tagalog to Maltese
• User generated content exploding
• Content flows in multiple formats
• Data trumps opinion
• Quality is relative
14. We will be talking about the same
things at a different level
• Simplification of processes
• Elimination of manual steps
• Automation of repetitive tasks
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