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Haiti allowed us to glimpse into a future of what disaster response might look like in a hyper-connected world where people have access to mobile smart
devices.
We were in one of the poorest countries on the planet, but 80 percent of the people had mobile
devices
in their hands.
Young people living in Kibera in their community, with simple handheld devices, GPS handheld
devices
and SMS-enabled mobile phones, have literally put themselves on the map.
We are hurtling towards a hyper-connected world where citizens from all cultures and all social strata will have access to smart, fast mobile
devices.
So the first one I'm going to talk about are implanted medical
devices.
Now medical
devices
have come a long way technologically.
Because that's when implanted
devices
inside of people started to have networking capabilities.
There's several examples up on the screen of situations where doctors are looking to implant
devices
inside of people, and all of these
devices
now, it's standard that they communicate wirelessly, and I think this is great, but without a full understanding of trustworthy computing, and without understanding what attackers can do and the security risks from the beginning, there's a lot of danger in this.
What we can do is be aware that
devices
can be compromised, and anything that has software in it is going to be vulnerable.
So given all of our digital
devices
that are bringing all the negative news to us seven days a week, 24 hours a day, it's no wonder that we're pessimistic.
In the last several years, two groups have introduced home sperm-testing
devices
that are iPhone-based and that are easy to use.
They are brilliant, mechanical, utilitarian
devices.
And it's true: left to its own devices, Mother Nature isn't going to carve an interesting or necessarily helpful path for you.
We received thousands of data sets, and we built this interface which allows people to actually see their lives unfolding from these traces that are left behind on your
devices.
And I think this is tremendously, tremendously important, because these are our histories that are being stored on these
devices.
The electrons go to work in the real world out here, powering our
devices.
And what I've found is that our little devices, those little
devices
in our pockets, are so psychologically powerful that they don't only change what we do, they change who we are.
Some of the things we do now with our
devices
are things that, only a few years ago, we would have found odd or disturbing, but they've quickly come to seem familiar, just how we do things.
I'm not suggesting that we turn away from our devices, just that we develop a more self-aware relationship with them, with each other and with ourselves.
Two hours to install one of our devices, compared to 6 hours for the existing treatment.
And finally, we may be able to use smart
devices
that will offload the work of the body and allow it to heal.
We need all sorts of new technology, new devices, to get the cells to the right place at the right time.
I talked before about the use of
devices
to dramatically change the way we treat disease.
Satellite tracking
devices
on animals such as sharks are now showing us that many top predators regularly dive deep into the twilight zone to feed.
Before that time, people are left to their own
devices.
Because I have a hunch that many of our technological innovations, the
devices
we dream about, can inspire us to be better humans.
These micro-machines, which are the envy of nanotechnologists the world over, are self-directed, powerful, precise, accurate
devices
that are made out of strings of amino acids.
It's so easy to think of technology as a metaphor for memory, but our brains are not perfect storage
devices
like technology.
So we want other designers to pick this up and learn how to make great devices, to learn how to make interactive products by starting from something real.
So the students would take their mobile devices, take a picture, triangulate the location, send that picture to friendly military units, who'd come in and take out the snipers.
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