{"id":154,"date":"2017-06-06T03:26:53","date_gmt":"2017-06-06T03:26:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prodemo.woostify.com\/meins\/?p=154"},"modified":"2021-04-25T15:24:44","modified_gmt":"2021-04-25T15:24:44","slug":"la-chapa-antideslizante-de-seguridad-total-en-metalmadrid19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.premafer.com\/fr\/noticias\/la-chapa-antideslizante-de-seguridad-total-en-metalmadrid19\/","title":{"rendered":"Tech oportunity living on the second half of the chess board"},"content":{"rendered":"

In March of 2017 we asisted to a very interesting conference at Gipuzkoa Science and Technology Park<\/a> by\u00a0 Barak Berkowitz <\/strong>focus on tech oportunity\u00a0and\u00a0we want to share the main tips.<\/p>\n

Barak Berkowitz in two words.<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Barak is the Director of Operation and Strategy and the MIT Media Lab and he is also founder of MarketCentrix, a consumer strategy consultancy for tech companies. \u00a0In addition, he consults to start-ups, VCs and Large companies. \u00a0Past clients have included, Digital Garage, Apple, Sony, Fujifilm, Polycom and many others. Furthermore, he also serves as an investor and advisor to many start-ups including LittleBits, New Context, Improbable and Quixey<\/p>\n

Geometric and the origen of the chess game.<\/strong><\/h3>\n

First of all, he began explaining the story about the origen\u00a0of the chess game<\/strong>. The inventor of chess explained his game to the emperor of India. The game introduced the king and queen, knights, bishops, castles and the pawn representing the serfs of the nation. It demonstrated the importance of all members of society.<\/p>\n

For that reason, the emperor was so impressed he offered the inventor a reward of his choosing. He asked one grain of rice to be placed on the first square of the board and to doubled on each subsequent square. The emperor protested, believing that the reward was too small but the inventor persisted.\u00a0When they reached the 32nd <\/sup>square, the reward amounts to the production from a few acres of rice patties, significant but not unreasonable. By the 64th <\/sup>square, it is estimated that the total amount of rice would amount to a pile the size of Mount Everest. This is a simple explanation of a geometric series<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Moore\u00b4s law.<\/strong><\/h3>\n

After this story, he explained Moore\u00b4s law.<\/strong>\u00a0A theory that Gordon Moore published in a 1965 article in Electronics Magazine. Moore noted that the number of transistors in a minimum cost integrated circuit had been doubling every 12 months. He predicted that this same rate of improvement would continue into the future. The law was modified slightly to 18 months.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe second half of the chessboard.<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Then he mentioned Ray Kurzweil<\/strong> an American author, inventor, futurist, and a director of engineering at Google. He coined the phrase \u201cThe second half of the chessboard\u201d and made the relation between the story and Moore\u00b4s law. He pointed that our human intuition can\u2019t cope with the constant doubling after the 32nd square of the board.<\/p>\n

Furthermore, Berkowitz\u00a0made a reference to Andrew McAfee <\/strong>and Erik Brynjolfsson <\/strong>who developed the chessboard metaphor further in their excellent book \u201cThe Second Machine Age<\/a>\u201d.<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0They calculated that if Moore\u2019s Law started in 1958, and the doubling period was every 18 months, \u201cby that calculation, we entered the second half of the chessboard with digital progress in 2006\u201d<\/p>\n

As a result, if the calculated dates are reasonable, the clear implication McAfee points out is that we are only at the beginning of this<\/strong>. We are still in the early part of the second half of the chessboard.
\nThe implications are profound and they are all around us. Every day we are using the Google search engine, Google maps, social media, and the list goes on. This functionality was only a dream a short 10 years ago. Google Glass and the Google Driverless Car are only small, incremental examples of what we can expect in the near future.<\/p>\n

Implications and opportunities. Tech oportunity.<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Finally, we want to mention Keith Havilanld<\/strong>\u00b4s words about implications for enterprises<\/strong>. This richness of compute and storage power\u00a0allows the redundancies that make large-scale cloud computing not only feasible, but competitively\u00a0essential and inevitable. \u00a0For most purposes, it is already inherently cheaper, more (potentially) agile and secure. The new technologies also facilitate new types of business model, new sources of insight on a gigantic scale and new demands from their end clients. \u00a0Immediacy in business matters more than ever. As a result,\u00a0Enterprise IT has embarked on a\u00a0long period\u00a0of transformation and change \u2013 maybe a decade of marvels and dark dangers.\u00a0Any organisation now needs to think more about tech opportunity and invention, than optimisation of the server estate, or cost per development hour.<\/p>\n

Whether we will create true artificial intelligence (A.I.) in the next decade, or next century, or ever remains an unanswerable question. The current rush to digital will\u00a0prove to be part-bubble driven by over enthusiasm. \u00a0There will be broken promises, and conventional challenges around service and costs. Legacy rarely dies, but grows larger.<\/p>\n

Certainly what is clear is that the opportunity to invent and innovate grows<\/strong> ever more profound as we move into the next great phase of digital history. It\u2019s time for imagination and for all technology practitioners to look\u00a0forward.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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