We're often told how it's vitally important for everyone to develop their digital skills, but what digital skills will we need for near future careers, and how can we go about developing them? In this talk for the Manchester Digital Skills Festival 2018 I take a look at a few examples, including some that are literally out of this world

1. Digital skills - you won’t believe what happened next!
Martin Hamilton
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2. You won’t believe what happened next!
1. Digital ate my hamster
2. Machines are talking about you behind your back
3. Now wait for last year
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3. About Jisc
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4. About Jisc
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5. The Janet network
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6. The Janet network
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7. 1. Digital ate my hamster
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8. Chips with everything
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Photo CC BY-NC-ND Flickr user philips_newscenter

9. Chips with everything
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Photo CC BY-NC-ND Flickr user philips_newscenter

10. Chips with everything
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Photo CC BY-NC-ND Flickr user philips_newscenter

11. SCADA Strangelove
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12. SCADA Strangelove
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13. 2. Machines are talking about you
behind your back
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Your plastic pal who’s fun to be with
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Your plastic pal who’s fun to be with
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Your plastic pal who’s fun to be with
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Your plastic pal who’s fun to be with
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18. But… how does it work?
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Neural network in 11 lines of Python
https://iamtrask.github.io/2015/07/12/basic-python-network/

19. But… how does it work?
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Generative adversarial networks in a nutshell - from https://www.analyticsvidhya.com

20. On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog
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Trending image from Deep Dream Generator - https://deepdreamgenerator.com/
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21. The Internet of Cats
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22. …and Cat Monsters
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23. AI meets Shakespeare
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From http://karpathy.github.io/2015/05/21/rnn-effectiveness/
VIOLA:Why, Salisbury must find his flesh and thought
That which I am not aps, not a man and in fire,
To show the reining of the raven and the wars
To grace my hand reproach within, and not a fair are hand,
That Caesar and my goodly father's world;
When I was heaven of presence and our fleets,
We spare with hours, but cut thy council I am great,
Murdered and by thy master's ready there
My power to give thee but so much as hell:
Some service in the noble bondman here,
Would show him to her wine.
KING LEAR: O, if you were a feeble sight, the courtesy of your law,
Your sight and several breath, will wear the gods
With his heads, and my hands are wonder'd at the deeds,
So drop upon your lordship's head, and your opinion
Shall be against your honour.
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24. What did your AI make today?
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From http://karpathy.github.io/2015/05/21/rnn-effectiveness/

25. 3. Now wait for last year
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26. The road to Mars
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Photo credit:UK Space Agency

27. The road to Mars
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Coming soon… UK spaceports

28. The road to Mars
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Coming soon… UK spaceports

29. The road to Mars
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Coming soon… UK spaceports

30. Now hiring… Asteroid Miners
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31. What wouldTuring do?
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32. What wouldTuring do?
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Where are you a visitor & where are you a resident?
(from Jisc Digital Leadership course)

33. Continue the conversation…
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Martin Hamilton
Futurist, Jisc
@martin_hamilton
martin.hamilton@jisc.ac.uk
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