The slides for Ross Dawson's keynote at Lenovo's celebration event for the 25th birthday of Thinkpad

1. The Next
25 Years
▪ Futurist
▪ Strategy advisor
▪ Author
@rossdawson

2. From the past
to the future

3. The power of
trends

4. Critical
uncertainties

5. Acceleration
Leadership
Interfaces
Organisations
Innovation

6. Acceleration

7. Exponential
growth

8. Everyone
connected

9. Smart dust

10. DNA storage

11. Processing
power

12. Quantum
possibilities

13. Distributed
systems
Source: Coin Market Cap

14. Interfaces

15. Reality or
virtual reality?

16. Beyond
human eyes

17. Touching and
feeling

18. Virtual reality
telepresence

19. Augmenting
reality

20. Data on our
eyes

21. Thought
interfaces

22. Innovation

23. “I put together elements that were
already there, but that’s what inventors
always do. You can’t make up new
elements, usually. The new element, if
any, was the combination, the way
they were used.”
Kary Mullis, Nobel Prize Winner, Chemistry, 1993
Innovation by
connecting

24. The networks
come to life

25. Beyond
human drivers

26. Efficient food
systems

27. Frontiers of
medicine

28. Real world
mapping

29. Immersive
education

30. Organisations

31. Competition
accelerates

32. Machines
beat humans
Source: Electronic
Frontier Foundation
AI performance:
Conversational voice recognition

33. Where people
will excel

34. Redesigning
work
Image: Faude

35. Networks for
innovation
Bounded Unbounded

36. Image: Bernard Spragg NZ
Fluid roles
and workflow

37. Leadership

38. CIOs will drive
the future

39. Source: Richard Watson/ What’s Next
Mapping the
future

40. Governance for
transformation

41. The power of
technology