Goodbye 2021 and Hello 2022

Goodbye 2021 and Hello 2022

Ending the year with a positive covid test, got me thinking about 2021. The year starting at Microsoft as an Industry Digital Strategist and ending with now two exciting roles as an “Innovation Professor” aka Deputy Director within CIAIRI at RMIT and Digital Innovation Lead at Frazer Nash Consultancy an engineering consultancy focused on delivering Societal Innovation has had an impact on me and hence sharing my top 9 Manifestations for 2022.

1.????Moving from exponential to multidisciplinary. To drive new levels of innovation, it is no longer enough to have one discipline, it is now about Health and Data Science, Environmental Science and Technology, Mixed Reality and Surgery, Game Machine Learning to Protein Folding discovery, bringing diverse disciplines together to invent.

2.????Robot expansion, the use of friendly robots to help us in the home, office, factory, warehouse, hospitals, especially in countries where Replacement Generations do not exist.

3.????Longevity driven by machine learning and data mining will make 100 years old the new 60. ?With CRISPR gene editing leading to anti-aging therapies, microbiome, metabolomics, MRI, Phenotype Data and the Human Genome, enabling many new areas of computational chemistry that interface with modern machine learning that will increase human longevity.

4.????Evolution by Human Direction, Ethicists and Masters of AI, will understand that it is human direction and not machine direction that is going to allow us to use AI to improve our humanity.

5.????4D and 5D bring transformation to construction simulation and digital twin. 4D Simulation are no longer eye candy entertainment, rather a virtual build can determine new models to improve safety, decrease construction time and deliver new levels of automation. These models then become the Digital Twin, creating new ways to manage assets and deliver the ultimate climate neutral energy harvesting buildings and infrastructure.

6.????Web 3 will allow us to connect people places and things with the convergence of physical and digital and the ongoing investment in Mixed Reality with advanced processors for next generation headsets or more likely much lighter and smaller glasses.

Watch the innovative interview style of Australian Sami Tauber from VNCCII here with Mike Pell, showing how Avatar can transform communications and we are going to see a lot more of this in the metaverse.

7.????Mergers, acquisitions and buyouts, Spotify will buy Clubhouse, Google will try to buy Zoom, Snapchat may buy Cameo, Somebody is going to buy OnlyFans, or Patreon as creative gain control of their fans and income.

8.????Opportunities for technology across disciplines will be prevalent for example the AFC FashTech Lab 2022 - AFC (ausfashioncouncil.com) ?An incredible opportunity to engage fashion increase sustainability and explore new technologies like AR, VR, MR and digital design technologies. Why not attend the CIAIRI Open Day and Immerse Yourself in AI. There are so many examples in Health, Environment like Climate Rewind using a liquid metal catalyst, where C02 can be converted from a gas into solid particles of carbon, Transport optimisation with data science, Sustainable Zero Death roads, Zero waste recycling, advanced Air Quality Monitoring and the ability to generate more energy than we consume.

The Last Manifestations is arriving tomorrow, meanwhile enjoy my goodbye video for all my friends and colleagues at (99+) Microsoft: Overview | LinkedIn

Credits and Final Manifestations to come, bring on the feedback! Avatars in the Metaverse, new immersive experiences, life extension, climate protection and many way to new ways to bring on Societal Innovation. Let me know what you think?