Management and Leadership in Health

and Humanitarianism

A module of the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute

Eric JAMES, PhD

27 January 2013

Class 7: Understanding Futures – Technology

Learning Objectives:

• Become familiar with the latest cutting-edge advancements in technology that have a global social impact

• Gain a basic understanding of how these advances may disrupt health and humanitarianism

What we take for granted: the telephone

Now…a medical device?

Credit: Daniel Kraft, MD

Encyclopedia of medical knowledge

Glucose Meter Cardiology

iBGStar

AliveCor iPhone ECG

Health Apps and ‘Quantified Self’

Electronic Self-Testing Instruments

Commercially available this decade

IBM Watson as an AI Physician

Tattooed sensorsmonitor heart, brain and other activity

Source: Daniel Kraft, MD

BionicsIngestible imaging devices

How are we taught to think in school?

Let’s take 30 steps…Linear: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5…30

Exponential: 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32…

until 1,073,741,824 (i.e. 2³⁰)!!!

History of Technology

Source: Peter Diamandis

Exponential growth and law of accelerating returns

3D and additive manufacturing

Artificial Intelligence

Mobile devices disrupting

banking and commerce

Robotics

Self-driving vehicles

Telemedicine

Thanks and ‘see’ you online