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By 2050 – we will be beyond the cloud and on Mars CISCO LIVE! Melbourne, 2018: The reality will be a multi cloud world: the tools to build cloud services and the networks
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elebrating 25 years, ‘Your IT’ CiscoLive! Melbourne attracted over 7,000 attendees, plus an additional online-record audience, covering over 300 sessions and viewing 100 sponsors at the World of Solutions expo. With Optus Business as the diamond sponsor, the two have jointly invested $12 million over three years to provide cybersecurity curriculum to Australian TAFEs and Universities. Optus was also the digital initiatives provider for the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games, along with Cisco being the Network hardware supporter. Rowan Trollope, Senior Vice President and General Manager, IoT applications group at Cisco provided the visionary keynote, highlighting the company’s 9,000 research and development engineers and the US$8 billion over the last two years spent on acquisitions. Roadmap of the Future Providing a roadmap of the future, with self-confessed pontification, Rowan Trollope reached out as far as 2050. For business and those with near term requirements, much of this was just entertainment. However, for many, including businesses such as Cisco, that have been around for 30 years, casting out so far, should Rowan be correct, or even half right, shows that the future is going to be a challenge, to say the least. By 2022 we expect to see the first driverless hovering drone taxi, flying above Dubai and by 2025 the smart phone may disappear as quickly as it arrived, as the world takes a ‘magic leap’, with the likes of Rony Abovitz (www.magicleap.com) and augmented reality (AR) glasses. Wearable technologies will create new experience platforms, as well as new science through the use of holograms in the field of vision – like the smart phone and the internet itself, this technology will profoundly affect every industry and in a networking perspective, will require an entirely new network built to support the next generation of devices and the digital resolution. As we draw to the close of 2028, text by thinking, which
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is already under development, will replace voice to text for significantly enhanced human brain to computer interfaces. By the end of the decade and into the next, 2030 will see new job titles, like vertical farmer, waste data manager and climate change reverse specialist. By 2034, one terabyte (1TB) connections to the home and on the person will be common. Yet, this bandwidth will only enable more computational and network connected opportunity. By 2036, Alzheimer’s is cured as a result of being able to reverse engineer the human brain. Current research in Queensland is using non-invasive ultrasound technology to show how memory can be restored, which could not only cure and restore memory from Alzheimer’s but significantly lengthen human life. By 2040, the 2020s and 2030’s are already looking ‘sleepy’ and obsolete. The average home will have the computing power of a billion human brains. This may be hard to imagine, today. What will be done with that computing power? This is a time when there is limitless processing capability and bandwidth. It will be up to the imagination. The chief futurist for Google, Ray Kurzweil believes that by 2045 we will have achieved, ‘the singularity’. The moment which computers become ‘more’ intelligent than humans. Artificial Intelligence is already making a transformative force in our lives and will continue to do so for many years to come. Ultimately, AI will change the future, and indeed it seems, human kind. By 2050, thanks to people like Elon Musk, there will be a permanent base on Mars. Humans will be an inter-planetary species. At this time, with 9.7 billion people forecast to be on earth, the planet is reaching the carrying capacity for sustainability. More than 10 billion people will require two earth sized planets. Today, we have to rethink substantially more about efficiency of and with resources. Technology will underpin this transformation, as it comes to underpin human life. Maslow’s hierarchy of human needs should now have battery