Welcome to this discussion Forum on the Smart Economy-where you can discuss the impacts of new emerging smart technologies-technologies that have built-in intelligence or smarts. I'll be posting examples of new and emerging smart technologies at least once a day.
The Smart Economy is quietly booming !
People have tried to label the post-industrial economy in many ways: the Knowledge economy, the information economy, the internet economy, the bio economy, etc. One denominator that they all have in common is that smart objects play an increasingly influential role- hence what I call the “Smart Economy”
So far, I have identified over 500 smart technologies from around the world. I ‘m creating in-depth profiles for about 100 significant ones for my book –which I hope will become the Bible for the Smart Economy or S-Economy (SE)
Chapters for the book include:
- smart appliances
- smart buildings and structures
- smart cities
- smart clothes/fabrics
- smart energy technologies
- smart environmental technologies
- smart everyday objects ( for the lack of a better category)
- smart health care products
- smart homes
- smart industrial technologies
- smart materials
- smart manufacturing
- smart nanotech (one of the core, fundimental enabling technologies)
- smart offices
- smart personal aids
- smart pervasive ubiquitous computing
- smart robots
- smart security technology
- smart shopping
- smart software
- smart sports technology
- smart toys
- smart transportation
- smart warfare
I'll be posting examples from the above categories, as well as from new categories for your review and comments.
You can't paint all smart technologies with the same smart brush, so we created a 6 point scale to distinguish levels of "smarts " or intelligence
Intelligence Levels (Table updated March 25, 2006)
Intelligence Level (1) |
Adapting: |
Modifying Behaviour to Fit the Environment |
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Intelligence Level (2) |
Sensing: |
Bringing Awareness to Everyday Things |
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Intelligence Level (3) |
Inferring: |
Drawing Conclusions from Rules and Observations |
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Intelligence Level (4) |
Learning: |
Using Experience to Improve Performance |
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Intelligence Level (5) |
Anticipating: |
Thinking and Reasoning about What to Do Next |
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Intelligence Level (6) |
Self-creating, |
Able to reproduce itself |
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Intelligence Level (6) |
Self-organizing |
Ability for components to self-organize |
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Intelligence Level (6) |
Self-sustaining (A) |
Ability to replicate components |
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Intelligence Level (6) |
Self-sustaining (B) |
Ability to process information |
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Intelligence Level (6) |
Self-sustaining (C) |
Ability to steadily consume energy from the environment |
Please visit our Blog daily, have fun and let's explore the social impacts together.
The Smart Future is already here, just the last page hasn't been written yet! Have your say !!
Oh... if you've run across interesting examples of novel smart technologies, please let us know and share with our readers, by posting your suggestion in the comments section or contact me directly.
NO SPAMING ..you will be banned and your posts deleted.
Opportunities for You !!
To explore the opportunities and threats of any new smart technology in your industry or for your organization - Contact Me Today
Walter Derzko
Expert and Guest Speaker on the Smart Economy and author of an upcoming book on the Smart Economy
economy is basic requirement for any country to develop. it is the main source for functioning of government. but today's economy is little bit slow.
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brook
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Posted by: brook | November 24, 2008 at 11:06 AM
Posted by: Diana Manning-Squire | July 23, 2007 at 03:03 AM
Apply Smarts to the Carbon Cycle
Man has been controlling the carbon cycle , and there for the weather, since the invention of agriculture, all be it was as unintentional, as our current airliner contrails are in affecting global dimming. This unintentional warm stability in climate , has over 10,000 years, allowed us to develop to the point that now we know what we did and that now we are over doing it.
The prehistoric and historic records gives a logical thrust for soil carbon sequestration.
I wonder what the soil biome carbon concentration was REALLY like before the cutting and charcoaling of the virgin east coast forest, my guess is that now we see a severely diminished community, and that only very recent Ag practices like no-till have started helped to rebuild it. It makes implementing Terra Preta soil technology like an act of penitence, returning misplaced carbon.
http://www.computare.org/Support%20documents/Fora%20Input/CCC2006/Energy%20Paper%2006_05.htm
Erich J. Knight
Posted by: Erich J. Knight | January 10, 2007 at 11:23 AM
I wonder how much electricity could be saved by inventing reliable solar street lights? Every city has a large budget for lighting, why can't that thought be made to work?
I think it could.
C-M
Posted by: Christa Maria | November 25, 2006 at 03:20 PM
The problem with the recycled sewage plant proposed for Toowoomba is that it just would not work.
It is not possible to produce 11,000 ML of recycled water from 8,000 ML of sewage. Toowoomba City Council also had nowhere for the RO waste stream to go. Acland Coal did not want it. Singapore pumps its RO waste stream into the sea.
The plant could never have been built for $68 million - closer to $150-200 million would be more accurate when you take into account the hundreds of acres of evaporation ponds required which were not included in the budget.
Regardless of your view on recycled water use, the no vote in Toowoomba was correct because the proposal was a dud.
Posted by: Jeff | September 04, 2006 at 12:01 AM
Need more info on the pollution-eating bricks used in Italy. Very brief discussion here and in Aug 14 Newsweek edition.
Posted by: Zena | August 16, 2006 at 03:56 AM
Very interesting blog Walter Derzko. I think the Applied Foresight Network could really function as an excellent collaborative tool . . .
Posted by: Artin Kiani | August 02, 2006 at 08:07 PM
Hi Walter
Very futurist your blog,indeed....I take a preview to all sections....I like them, although I dislike smart weapons....because our world is enough violent...We have to improve tasks and social policies to prevent army and violence.
Please visit Bioterra
Cheers
Joao
Posted by: Joao Soares | May 14, 2006 at 08:32 AM
Walter, when I sent back a reply to your email, I didn't think that you would post it.
There are many ways to save enegry without changing the way you live.
Every building can consume up to 25% less enegry without a loss in comfort.
I really believe that it is cheaper for the consumer to make the existing systems more efficient than installing new ones.
Thanks and keep up the great blog.
Posted by: Dale Simpson | April 18, 2006 at 06:33 PM
I'm waiting for smart people to be invented - or smart education - whichever works fastest in correcting the trajectory of human growth and development as it is now!
I live in Toowoomba, S E Queensland, Australia. This corner is the fastest growing area of our continent. The big city of the Gold Coast is here. To the west of our capital is the valley that grows a large quantity of our fresh produce and livestock.
Australia is the driest continent in the world according to our city council.
Your article on the Western Prairies in Canada is very relevant to my city. It could be said that we live in a rain shadow of the Great Dividing Range, even though we sit on it. Our climate is changing, our city has grown unplanned in the sustainable sense, but planned in the sense that the investors and property market are booming. We can't use a hose in the garden. We are not permitted to wash our cars in our yards. We have to bucket water precious plants on alternate days of the week. People complain about the weather when it prevents them from being self-indulgent and going to the beach or watching football. Nothing seemsto make the masses realise a crisis is looming. They continue to waste water by cheating the regulations. I think if we were told we could only have water switched on in our house every alternate day, people would then start to understand. There would be an uproar of course. Who has the right to make these decisions for me, they'd say! Our citizens (not me) are fighting a project to convert sewerage to potable water.
Advertisements showing villagers in Africa drinking stagnant water, muddied and polluted by other human beings and livestock and algae infestations, should be aimed at our own populations threatening us with this prospect if we don't consider the scarcity of this live sustaining essential natural resources. How can they ignore the fact that space exploration is all about finding water on other planets. Water means life.
Posted by: Vivienne | April 04, 2006 at 09:02 PM
Hi Walter,
Just came by to check out your blog. You have many areas of interest and I did read several. I'll come back soon. Your friend.:)
Gord
Posted by: Gord Kowalishen | February 12, 2006 at 05:47 PM
The future needs futurists. Thought you'd be interested in this Wired story: http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,69087,00.html?tw=rss.TOP
Posted by: Roman Olynyk | October 07, 2005 at 08:06 AM
Walter, I'm glad you are doing this - it will be fun to exchange ideas.
Posted by: Rita Gunther McGrath | September 15, 2005 at 10:21 AM