The chance to begin again in a golden land of opportunity and adventure? In this talk for the 2017 UCISA Spotlight on Digital Capabilities event I invite the audience to consider what and how the DNA editors and asteroid miners of tomorrow will be learning, and what digital capability and digital skills will mean for them.

1. A new life awaits you in the off-world colonies
Martin Hamilton
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2. A new life awaits you in the off-world colonies
1. Rise of the robots
2. Machine learning & artificial intelligence
3. What’s next for digital capability?
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3. Rise of the robots
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4. Rise of the robots
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Photo CC BY-NC Flickr user nestle
› Pepper acts as greeter in 140+ SoftBank stores in Japan
› Nestlé planning to introduce in 1000+ sales outlets

5. Rise of the robots
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6. Rise of the robots
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Photo CC BY-NC Flickr user greenplasticamy
› Amazon uses over 45,000 robots already in its
warehouses and distribution centres

7. Rise of the robots
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Photo CC BY-NC Flickr user greenplasticamy
› Amazon uses over 45,000 robots already in its
warehouses and distribution centres

8. Rise of the robots
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From http://futurism.com

9. Rise of the robots
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Startups and scaleups
› Jisc Startups competition
– Six month accelerator programme
– Support package includes cash grant
and mentoring
› Winners: Omni Invent
– 4 nozzle 3D printer + CNC mill,
automatically embed circuits/sensors,
automated tool changer
– Selected for Hax hardware accelerator
programme, in top 3% of entrants
– Team moved to Shenzen to finish
commercialising
– www.omni-invent.co.uk

10. 2. Machine learning & artificial intelligence
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11. Machine learning & AI
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› Tesla owners have already driven over 140m miles on Autopilot
› 90,000+Teslas with Autopilot are already on the road

12. Machine learning & AI
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Photo CC BY-NC-SA Flickr user portalgda
› Tesla owners have already driven over 140m miles on Autopilot
› 90,000+Teslas with Autopilot are already on the road

13. Machine learning & AI
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Google DeepMindAI learns to play Breakout

14. Machine learning & AI
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Obstacle detection and avoidance in the Google self-driving car

15. Machine learning & AI
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Startups and scaleups
› Jisc Startups competition
– Six month accelerator programme
– Support package includes cash grant
and mentoring
› Winners: Wildfire Learning
– World’s first AI content creation
service for learning
– Create learning objects from any text,
PowerPoint or video
– Generate a course’s worth of content
in an hour
– www.wildfirelearning.co.uk

16. Machine learning & AI
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17. Machine learning & AI
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18. 3. What’s next for digital capability?
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19. What’s next?
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Societal implications:
› You might be surprised at just how much
more can be automated
› Further erosion of unskilled and semi-skilled
employment opportunities
– Watch out if your white collar job can be reduced to an
algorithm or “learned” from data
› “New Luddites” throwing stones at the
Google bus?
– Versus universal basic income?
– Versus psychological need for a greater purpose?
› Health implications of sedentary lifestyles,
musculoskeletal disorders
– Already 86% of Chinese high school students are
myopic – screen time & indoor play?
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20. What’s next?
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Developing digital capability:
› There will be whole new careers & existing ones will
change beyond recognition
– We should view this as an opportunity, e.g. smart homes need smart
plumbers & smart electricians
› We will need to embrace portfolio careers &
continuous/bite sized learning
– No longer enough to learn a trade or achieve professional
certification
› Impedance mismatch between digital tech and the
apparatus of the nation state
– Brexit vs. Estonian e-residency
› Reaching the next billion learners
– Last mile issues for trans-national education
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21. What’s next?
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http://ji.sc/developing-digicap

22. What’s next?
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VLE data
+
Student record system
+
Attendance data
+
Library data
Buildings data
+
Learning space data
+
Location data
Teaching quality data
+
Assessment data
+
Curriculum design
data
Content data
+
Learning pathways
data
Better retention
and attainment
Retention and
attainment
Retention and
attainment
Retention and
attainment
A more efficient
campus
Improved teaching
& curricula
Personalised and
adaptive learning
Efficient campus Efficient campus
Improving teaching
& curricula
Now
Learning
analytics
Institutional
analytics
Educational
analytics
Adaptive
Analytics and AI
Future

23. What’s next?
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Tri-modal model for innovation
CC-BY Simon Wardley – see
blog.gardeviance.org/2012/06/pione
ers-settlers-and-town-planners.html
Tackling the Innovator’s
Dilemma:
› What’s the right mix of
Pioneers, Settlers andTown
Planners?

24. What’s next?
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25. What’s next?
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26. Continue the conversation…
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Except where otherwise noted, this
work is licensed under CC-BY
Martin Hamilton
Futurist, Jisc, London
@martin_hamilton
martin.hamilton@jisc.ac.uk
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