Bold (40 page)

15
 Babson Olin School of Business Advertisement,
Fast Company
, April 2011, 121.

16
 Foster and Kaplan,
Creative Destruction
.

17
 Salim Ismail, AI, 2012.

18
 Virginia Heffernan, “How We All Learned to Speak Instagram,”
Wired
, April 2013,
http://www.wired.com/2013/04/instagram-2/
.

19
 Chenda Ngak, “Instagram for Android gets 1 million downloads in first day,” CBS News, April 4, 2012,
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/instagram-for-android-gets-1-million-downloads-in-first-day/
.

20
 Joanna Stern, “Facebook Buys Instagram for $1 Billion,” ABC News, April 27, 2012,
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/technology/2012/04/facebook-buys-instagram-for-1-billion/
.

21
 Unless otherwise noted, all Ben Kauffman information comes from a series of AIs conducted in 2013.

22
 Issie Lapowsky, “Quirky Lands $79 Million in Funding,”
Inc.
, November 13, 2013,
http://www.inc.com/issie-lapowsky/quirky-79-million-funding-connected-home.html
.

23
 AI conducted 2013.

24
 Austin Carr, “Inside Airbnb's Grand Hotel Plans,”
Fast Company
, April 2014.

25
 Serena Saitto and Brad Stone, “Uber Sets Valuation Record of $17 Billion in New Funding,”
Bloomberg.com
, January 7, 2014. See
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-06-06/uber-sets-valuation-record-of-17-billion-in-new-funding.html
.

1
 Edwin A. Locke,
The Prime Movers
(New York: AMACOM, 2000).

2
 AI conducted 2013.

3
 Steven Kotler, “The Whole Earth Effect,”
Plenty
, no. 24 (October/November 2008): 84–91.

4
 J. C. R Licklider, “Memorandum For Members and Affiliates of the Intergalactic Computer Network,” Advanced Research Projects Agency, April 23, 1963. See
http://www.kurzweilai.net/memorandum-for-members-and-affiliates-of-the-intergalactic-computer-network
.

5
 Chris Anderson, “The Man Who Makes the Future:
Wired
Icon Marc Andreessen,”
Wired
, April 24, 2012,
http://www.wired.com/2012/04/ff_andreessen/all/
.

6
 Ian Peter, “History of the World Wide Web,” Net History,
http://www.nethistory.info/History%20of%20the%20Internet/web.html
.

7
 McKinsey Global Institute, “Manufacturing the future: The next era of global growth and innovation,” McKinsey & Company, November 2012,
http://www.mckinsey.com/insights/manufacturing/the_future_of_manufacturing
.

8
 Institute of Human Origins, “Earliest Stone Tool Evidence Revealed,”
Becoming Human
, August 11, 2010,
http://www.becominghuman.org/node/news/earliest-stone-tool-evidence-revealed
.

9
 Pagan Kennedy, “Who Made That 3-D Printer,”
New York Times Magazine
, November 22, 2013,
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/24/magazine/who-made-that-3-d-printer.html
.

10
 In full disclosure, Peter Diamandis is a member of the 3D Systems Board of Directors.

11
 All Avi Reichenthal quotes come from a series of AIs conducted between 2012 and 2014.

12
 Based on approximate average share price for 2014.

13
 AI, June 2014.

14
 AI with Jay Rogers, 2014.

15
 David Szondy, “SpaceX completes qualification test of 3D-printed SuperDraco thruster,”
Gizmag
, May 28, 2014,
http://www.gizmag.com/superdraco-test/32292/
.

16
 James Hagerty and Kate Linebaugh, “Next 3-D Frontier: Printed Plane Parts,”
Wall Street Journal
, July 14, 2012,
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303933404577505080296858896
.

17
 Tim Catts, “GE Turns to 3D Printers for Plane Parts,”
Bloomberg Businessweek
, November 27, 2013,
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-11-27/general-electric-turns-to-3d-printers-for-plane-parts
.

18
 All quotes about Made In Space come from an AI with Michael Chen conducted 2013.

19
 Brian Dodson, “Launch your own satellite for US $8000,”
Gizmag
, April 22, 2012,
http://www.gizmag.com/tubesat-personal-satellite/22211/
.

20
 Statista, “Statistics and facts on the Toy Industry,”
Statista.com
, 2012,
http://www.statista.com/topics/1108/toy-industry/
.

21
 Unless otherwise noted, all Alice Taylor quotes and facts come from an AI conducted in 2013.

22
 Cory Doctorow,
Makers
(New York: Tor Books, 2009).

1
 Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, “Mobile gadgets driving massive growth in touch sensors,”
ZDNet
, June 18, 2013,
http://www.zdnet.com/mobile-gadgets-driving-massive-growth-in-touch-sensors-7000016954/
.

2
 Peter Kelly-Detwiler, “Machine to Machine Connections—The Internet of Things—And Energy,”
Forbes
, August 6, 2013,
http://www.forbes.com/sites/peterdetwiler/2013/08/06/machine-to-machine-connections-the-internet-of-things-and-energy/
.

3
 See
http://www.shotspotter.com
.

4
 Clive Thompson, “No Longer Vaporware: The Internet of Things Is Finally Talking,”
Wired
, December 6, 2012,
http://www.wired.com/2012/12/20-12-st_thompson/
.

5
 Brad Templeton, “Cameras or Lasers?,”
Templetons
,
http://www.templetons.com/brad/robocars/cameras-lasers.html
.

6
 See
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passenger_vehicles_in_the_United_States
.

7
 Commercial satellite players include: PlanetLabs (already launched), Skybox (launched and acquired by Google), Urthecast (launched), and two still-confidential companies still under development (about which Peter Diamandis has firsthand knowledge).

8
 Stanford University, “Need for a Trillion Sensors Roadmap,”
Tsensorsummit.org
, 2013,
http://www.tsensorssummit.org/Resources/Why%20TSensors%20Roadmap.pdf
.

9
 Rickie Fleming, “The battle of the G networks,”
NCDS.com
blog, June 28, 2014,
http://www.ncds.com/ncds-business-technology-blog/the-battle-of-the-g-networks
.

10
 AI with Dan Hesse, 2013–14.

11
 Unless otherwise noted, all IoT information and Padma Warrior quotes come from an AI with Padma, 2013.

12
 Cisco, “2013 IoE Value Index,”
Cisco.com
, 2013,
http://internetofeverything.cisco.com/learn/2013-ioe-value-index-whitepaper
.

13
 NAVTEQ, “NAVTEQ Traffic Patterns,”
Navmart.com
, 2008,
http://www.navmart.com/pdf/NAVmart_TrafficPatterns.pdf
.

14
 Juho Erkheikki, “Nokia to Buy Navteq for $8.1 Billion, Take on TomTom (Update 7),”
Bloomberg
, October 1, 2007,
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=ayyeY1gIHSSg
.

15
 John Swartz, “Show me the Waze: Google maps a $1 billion deal,”
USA Today
, June 12, 2013,
http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2013/06/11/google-waze/2411871/
.

16
 Cisco, “2013 IoE Value Index.”

17
 See
http://www.getturnstyle.com
.

18
 See
http://www.adheretech.com
.

19
 See
http://www.coherohealth.com/#home
.

20
 AI with Briggs conducted 2014.

21
 J. P. Mangalindan, “A digital maestro for every object in the home,”
Fortune
, June 7, 2013,
http://fortune.com/2013/06/07/a-digital-maestro-for-every-object-in-the-home/
.

22
 Unless otherwise noted, all Bass quotes and Autodesk information comes from a series of AIs with Carl Bass conducted 2012–2014.

23
 Michio Kaku, “The Future of Computing Power [Fast, Cheap, and Invisible],”
Big Think
, April 24, 2010,
http://bigthink.com/dr-kakus-universe/the-future-of-computing-power-fast-cheap-and-invisible
.

24
 AI with Graham Weston, 2013.

25
 
2001: A Space Odyssey
, directed by Stanley Kubrick (1968; Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer), DVD release, 2011.

26
 
Iron Man
, directed by Jon Favreau (2008; Burbank, CA: Walt Disney Studios), DVD.

27
 AI with Ray Kurzweil, 2013.

28
 See:
http://www.xprize.org/ted
. As of the end of 2014, this prize is only in concept form. A detailed design and a design sponsor is still required.

29
 “Ray Kurzweil: The Coming Singularity, Your Brain Year 2029,”
Big Think
, June 22, 2013,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6adugDEmqBk
.

30
 John Ward, “The Services Sector: How Best To Measure It?,”
International Trade Administration
, October 2010,
http://trade.gov/publications/ita-newsletter/1010/services-sector-how-best-to-measure-it.asp
.

31
 AI with Jeremy Howard, 2013.

32
 For information on the German Traffic Sign Recognition Benchmark see
http://benchmark.ini.rub.de
.

33
 Geoffrey Hinton et al., “ImageNet Classification with Deep Convolutional Neural Networks,”
http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~fritz/absps/imagenet.pdf
.

34
 John Markoff, “Armies of Expensive Lawyers, Replaced By Cheaper Software,”
New York Times
, March 4, 2011,
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/05/science/05legal.html?pagewanted=all
.

35
 David Schatsky and Vikram Mahidhar, “Intelligent automation: A new era of innovation,” Deloitte University Press, January 22, 2014,
http://dupress.com/articles/intelligent-automation-a-new-era-of-innovation/
.

36
 John Markoff, “Computer Wins on ‘Jeopardy!': Trivial, It's Not,”
New York Times
, February 16, 2011,
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/17/science/17jeopardy-watson.html?pagewanted=all
.

37
 “IBM Watson's Next Venture: Fueling New Era of Cognitive Apps Built in the Cloud by Developers,” IBM Press Release, November 14, 2013,
http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/42451.wss
.

38
 Nancy Dahlberg, “Modernizing Medicine, supercomputer Watson partner up,”
Miami Herald
, May 16, 2014.

39
 AI with Daniel Cane, 2014.

40
 Ray Kurzweil, “The Law of Accelerating Returns.”

41
 Daniela Hernandez, “Meet the Man Google Hired to Make AI a Reality,”
Wired
, January 2014,
http://www.wired.com/2014/01/geoffrey-hinton-deep-learning/
.

42
 AI with Geordie Rose, 2014.

43
 See
http://1qbit.com
.

44
 John McCarthy, Marvin Minsky, Nathaniel Rochester, and Claude E. Shannon, “A Proposal for the Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence,”
AI Magazine
, August 31, 1955, 12–14.

45
 Jim Lewis, “Robots of Arabia,”
Wired
, Issue 13.11 (November 2005).

46
 Garry Mathiason et al., “The Transformation of the Workplace Through Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, and Automation,”
The Littler Report
, February 2014,
http://documents.jdsupra.com/d4936b1e-ca6c-4ce9-9e83-07906bfca22c.pdf
.

47
 See
http://www.rethinkrobotics.com
.

48
 All Dan Barry quotes in this section come from an AI conducted 2013.

49
 The Cambrian explosion was an evolutionary event beginning about 542 million years ago, during which most of the major animal phyla appeared.

50
 See “Amazon Prime Air,”
Amazon.com
,
http://www.amazon.com/b?node=8037720011
.

51
 Jonathan Berr, “Google Buys 8 Robotics Companies in 6 Months: Why?”
CBSnews.com
,
CBS Money Watch
, December 16, 2013,
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/google-buys-8-robotics-companies-in-6-months-why/
.

52
 Brad Stone, “Smarter Robots, With No Wage Demands,”
Bloomberg Businessweek
, September 18, 2012,
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-09-18/smarter-robots-with-no-pesky-uprisings
.

53
 Aviva Hope Rutkin, “Report Suggests Nearly Half of U.S. Jobs Are Vulnerable to Computerization,”
MIT Technology Review
, September 12, 2013,
http://www.technologyreview.com/view/519241/report-suggests-nearly-half-of-us-jobs-are-vulnerable-to-computerization/
.

54
 Lee Chyen Yee and Jim Clare, “Foxconn to rely more on robots; could use 1 million in 3 years,”
Reuters
, August 1, 2011,
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/01/us-foxconn-robots-idUSTRE77016B20110801
.

55
 Jennifer Wang, “Cutting-Edge Startups Leading the Robotic Revolution,”
Entrepreneur
, June 3, 2013,
http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/226397
.