our world has changed the Internet of
Things has arrived by some estimates
people believe that 50 billion devices
will be connected in this mesh that
we’ve created a society that’s 279
million self-driving cars to petabyte a
day of storage that manufacturing firms
are going to create
how many healthcare devices it continues
to grow it’s also international in scope
has no confines of where we live is
people
it connects things in ways where we
cannot even understand how it is doing
some of the things we’re doing
how does Alexa Siri Google home know to
do the things that we asked it to do
simply by using our voice across the US
and definitely on this side of the
country
we’re on we’re always on how do we work
with that as we continue to want more
and ask for more today’s assignment we
get to take a look at that we get to
press ctrl Alt Delete I did this at a
very early age and now you know at 38
years old I’m amazed at the reality that
I can now create and the evolution of
computing if you look at the last 30
years
it starts with a device a computer and
throughout the 90s we used a lot of
different stuff we had Windows NT we had
Windows 2000 we virtualized we took
physical equipment and turned it into
software
we access we then head XP in 7 and we
virtualized that and now today we get to
figure out what do we want to do none of
that was possible though without success
success comes from having a vision
executing on that and getting people to
adopt it
notice Windows millennium not there a
lot of blue screens when we think about
what we want to be businesses are
focusing on what is core to their
business they want to invest in that and
give people what they need so they can
be more productive
that means applications anywhere on any
device when we want them wherever we
want them no longer confined that’s big
this is a difficult thing that we’re
going to go through and I think it’s
important to look back of we’ve done
this before
and the Industrial Revolution we decided
to implore machines and we first went
after processes that we did and we used
mechanics to Loom create things then we
said we’re creating things we need to go
faster
we built an assembly line and then in
1969 the programmable controller came
about and a lot of different ideas
started coming up we moved into creating
machines that did things in ways we
could never imagine and now today with
IOT and cloud technologies and the
amount of devices were adding to this
world it’s going to get a lot more
complex let’s look at what happens
though when we use those machines and
the advancements that happen people
change the way they worked used to take
about in the 1850s 80 hours to produce a
hundred bushels of corn so two and a
half acres and we can feed people that’s
how the economy was operating forty
years later we added more horses more
machines more things and we reduced the
time by 50%
and that was left us with a great thing
time that’s my father when he was a kid
sitting on his ploughed farm in Webster
he was able to think what do I want to
do you didn’t get to do that back in the
day you went to work like my grandfather
the challenge was we had to go to work
in new places not since the Neolithic
Revolution had people had to travel
outside of the home to go work sell
goods interact with people and that
sometimes those changes result in
difficult circumstances skills changed
the speed at which we needed to learn
something changed maybe what we had
wasn’t when somebody was looking for so
what happened some people turned and
faced the change strange and some people
didn’t one guy who turned and faced the
strange happened about a hundred
seventy-five years ago lived in 58 miles
from near Buffalo New York
Joseph dart created the grain elevator
this changed the way in which we were
able to move the amount of materials and
goods we were creating at a fast pace up
and down the Erie Canal those buildings
still stand today but we don’t really
use those anymore we advanced I believe
that the next digital economy is going
to be one where robots an AI change the
way in which we operate and that’s going
to make us go through some pretty
interesting conversations with ourselves
with our friends at home and our family
members and our co-workers and we’re all
going to go through this where we say
robots can’t do what I can do only I can
do what I can do then we’ll get to a
point where we realize well sure a robot
can do that but I got to train it a few
times and then we’re going to think
about things that we actually cannot do
because we’ve automated to a scale the
we can’t keep up with 50 billion devices
is a lot of things and we keep asking
for more today’s robots are big heavy
walled off from people because they
don’t know you’re there the next
generation it’s going to start seeing
these things and then there’s going to
be those that live in the void that we
never see they may be there helping us
every time we ask for something to be
the one thing that robots can’t do at
least for a very long while though is
ask what do people want to do which
leaves us the ability to ask the
question what are people for I believe
people are creative machines you can
measure in productivity how fast how
nimble how adaptable to change but they
can’t make a gut call they can’t decide
I want to do this so I said that our
assignment today was to press ctrl Alt
Delete
I remember back when I first started
disrupting technology in 2006 we had her
two years away from when desktop
virtualization taking a physical
computer and turning it into software
and putting it in the cloud existed and
I walked into work and I didn’t know I
was going to experience this but I saw
it happen and I stayed at work for two
extra hours got yelled at when I got
home but I walked in and said we are
going to change I will never touch a
physical machine again as part of the
job that I do today I then echoed that
message to a very close co-worker of
mine who is still a colleague today and
we are going to go create robots and
when we said that he looked at me in
bewilderment and didn’t know what I
meant now I was talking about taking a
machine and turning it into software
fast forward to about two years ago I
said to him guess what we get to build
robots and they’re coming and he then
returned this gift to me and said I
created this for you because we already
talked about this and you told me to
remain calm our world is going to change
this hangs in my office I look at it
every morning we get to do this we don’t
have to do it we are going to look back
on this time as a amazing moment in our
world’s history where we all chose to
connect one another on a global scale
it’s not a chore so keep calm and
remember everything is possible in the land of make-believe