The eight D's: Deception, Disruption, Digitization, Dematerialization, Democratization, Decentralization, Demonetization and Disintermediation.
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AGENDA FOR WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 12TH, 2014
06:45PM - >09:00PM
Main Topic: A Discussion on the Eight Ds of Exponential Growth: Deception, Disruption, Digitization, Dematerialization, Democratization, Decentralization, Demonetization and Disintermediation.
We will have a short presentation followed by a discussion on the many Ds of Exponential Growth as put together by Peter Diamandis, the entrepreneur and philanthropist that wrote the best-seller book, Abundance: The Future is Better Than You Think.
Six of the eight Ds as discussed in his TED talk and taken from the link above:
+Deceptive – early stages of exponential growth processes may be deceptively linear
+Disruptive – once exponential growth reaches the inflection point, or “knee of the curve,” they become truly disruptive;
+Digitized – more information is becoming digitized, opening the door for a layer of analytics (e.g. machine learning) to be placed on top of it;
+Dematerialized – no longer do you have to buy a flashlight or digital camera, you can simply purchase an app on your phone to accomplish these tasks;
+Demonetized – as manufacturing techniques improve, technologies are becoming less expensive at an alarming pace;
+Democratized – there will be 3 billion more people on the Internet by 2020, leading to more perspectives because these people will be given a voice in the global discourse for the first time;
