Innovation and Technology: Two Key Ingredients for Improving Preparation and Transition to College

The Next 50 Years

• Devices per chip continue to double every
• 12 months.
• The pace of change continues to accelerate.
• 100 years happens in 20 at the current rate.*
• Use to ubiquity.
• Distinctive to disposable.
• Peripheral to integral.

• *Ray Kurzweil, The Age of Spiritual Machines

The Pace of Change Is Accelerating

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:PPTParadigmShiftsFrr15Events.jpg

Four Ways to IT

• Wire

• Storage

• Processing

• Wireless

• Services and Content

Universal Access

• Anyone, anywhere, anytime will be able to instantaneously talk, write and send visual and audio information to anyone else.
• IP replaces Esperanto.
• Please put my universal translator engine in my cell phone in my ear rather than a Babel Fish…

• Watch the Third Screen

• The Digital Majority

• Like Starbucks' relentless attempts to sell itself as the "third place," the wireless industry is trying to sell itself as the "third screen."

• 2010:
• 500 Million Broadband Users
• 2.3 Billion Cell Phones

Spare Parts

• Availability dates:
• Artificial Brain Cells 2017
• Artificial Brain 2035
• Artificial Eyes 2010
• Artificial Eye Implant 2024
• Permanent Mechanical Heart 2010
• Synthetic Muscles 2019
• Lungs And Kidneys 2015

• DATA: BRITISH TELEPHONE LABS in Business Week, March 200 and in The Register, February 2005

Now Picking Up a Spare…

• Over 100,000 Cochlear
• Ear Implants
• Bionic limbs moved by thought
• Exoskeletons
• Limbs, joints and bones
• Carbon nanotubes

Brain Computer Interface

• A BrainGate, enabled paralyzed Matthew Nagle, to move a computer cursor, change TV channels and operate fingers on a prosthetic hand.
• Long-term goal of the study was to develop brain computer interfaces (BCIs).