---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Trond Arne Undheim <[email protected]> Date: Tue, Dec 1, 2020 at 11:28 PM Subject: Futurized - 1 Dec 2020: The Future of AR, The Future of Peer-to-Peer, Startup mentoring in the UAE, Future Tech preview To: Michel Bauwens <[email protected]> [image: Futurized podcast - preparing you to deal with future disruption] <https://yegiiinc.cmail19.com/t/d-l-chtiilk-jliiuhlhf-r/> *Hi Michel. * This week, Futurized tackles *The Future of AR, The Future of Peer-to-Peer, and Startup mentoring in UAE*, in three intriguing interview episodes, plus has a preview of *Future Tech*, Trond Undheim's upcoming book: - The Future of AR <https://yegiiinc.cmail19.com/t/d-l-chtiilk-jliiuhlhf-y/> with Ori Inbar, Founder of Superventures and also CEO and founder of AugmentedReality.org, the organizer of AWE, the world’s most essential AR/VR conference since 2010. - The Future of Peer-to-Peer <https://yegiiinc.cmail19.com/t/d-l-chtiilk-jliiuhlhf-j/> with Michel Bauwens, Founder of the P2P Foundation and co-author of Peer-to-Peer: The Commons Manifesto. - Startup Mentoring in UAE <https://yegiiinc.cmail19.com/t/d-l-chtiilk-jliiuhlhf-t/> with Wafa Omar, founder of BizWhisper, a startup which is specialized in creative problem solving for entrepreneurs in the MENA region through mentoring. - Future Tech - a preview <https://yegiiinc.cmail19.com/t/d-l-chtiilk-jliiuhlhf-i/>, a mini-episode where futurist Trond Undheim briefly discusses his upcoming book Future Tech: How to capture value from disruptive industry trends <https://yegiiinc.cmail19.com/t/d-l-chtiilk-jliiuhlhf-d/>, to be published by Kogan Page in March 2021 As usual, please find imagery and brief summaries below. If you like the show, subscribe to Futurized in Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Amazon Music, iHeartRadio or Pandora, review it with a sentence, and ideally give it a 5 star rating. Also, if you would give our YouTube channel some love, that would be appreciated, since we'll be moving aggressively into that format over the next three months. -- TROND JOINS GROWTH STARTUP TULIP AS LEAD ECOSYSTEM EVANGELIST This week, I'm excited to share that I have joined one of the leading startups of our time. Tulip empowers the frontline worker providing a no-code platform everyone can use, improving efficiencies, sharing best practices, reducing downtime, and increasing the consistency and safety of manual processes. My role is to work across the industrial ecosystem worldwide to *usher the new era of the augmented worker*, matching societal needs during and post-COVID-19. Together with the World Economic Forum, Tulip is fostering a global network and learning community (MFG Works) for manufacturing leaders. The vision is to, by the end of this decade, if not sooner, empower any worker who has not yet received the full benefits of technology, and especially restore the tremendous agility and humanity of frontline workers, through *augmented reality-enhancing technologies* (e.g. industrial IoT, automation, digital factory, robotics, sensors, augmentation, industry 4.0, agile manufacturing, additive manufacturing, 3D printing). -- Have a great day! Trond Arne Undheim, Ph.D. Author of *Pandemic Aftermath* (2020), *Disruption Games (2020), Leadership

From Below (2008) and Future Tech (2021, forthcoming). See Trond's books <https://yegiiinc.cmail19.com/t/d-l-chtiilk-jliiuhlhf-h/>.*

[image: Antler] <https://yegiiinc.cmail19.com/t/d-l-chtiilk-jliiuhlhf-k/> [image: The Future of AR] <https://yegiiinc.cmail19.com/t/d-l-chtiilk-jliiuhlhf-u/> In Anniversary episode #54, The Future of AR <https://yegiiinc.cmail19.com/t/d-l-chtiilk-jliiuhlhf-o/>, futurist Trond Arne Undheim interviews Ori Inbar, Founder of Superventures and also CEO and founder of AugmentedReality.org, the organizer of AWE, the world’s most essential AR/VR conference since 2010, interviewed by futurist Trond Arne Undheim. In this conversation, they talk about community building in the no longer so embryonic AR/VR space, the emergence of spatial computing, the Augmented Reality Expo (AWE). They discuss AR/VR venture capital, exciting and emerging use cases and form factors, market size, mobile AR, and COVID’s impact on remote tech. They explore the world in 2030 and the threats that the world is facing. The takeaway is that augmented reality has come a long way and is no longer a fringe technology, and the COVID-moment has made progress in the field a global tech priority. As for VR, the community is growing but developing true killer apps will take time. Maybe a good thing, because we are not really ready for what is to come. Will we evolve into a virtual species? Neither Ori nor Trond think so at this point. Ask them in thirty years, though. Listen to Episode #54 <https://yegiiinc.cmail19.com/t/d-l-chtiilk-jliiuhlhf-b/> [image: Listen on Apple Podcasts] <https://yegiiinc.cmail19.com/t/d-l-chtiilk-jliiuhlhf-n/> [image: The Future of Peer-to-Peer] <https://yegiiinc.cmail19.com/t/d-l-chtiilk-jliiuhlhf-p/> In episode #52, The Future of Peer-to-Peer <https://yegiiinc.cmail19.com/t/d-l-chtiilk-jliiuhlhf-x/>, futurist Trond Arne Undheim interviews Michel Bauwens, Founder of the P2P Foundation and co-author of Peer-to-Peer: The Commons Manifesto, interviewed by futurist Trond Arne Undheim. In this conversation, we talked about how the world may have reached a tipping point where the balance between centralized and distributed activity as well as for profit and not for profit activity have overreached its boundaries. In Bauwens’ analysis, historically when this happens, with civilizations such as the Mayans, or the Chinese, a reversal of polarity happens, and society moves into healing mode. The difference this time, is that the system is global, and that we have nowhere else to go. Our challenge now is, whether we are capable of living within planetary boundaries. Bauwens, in this respect, subscribes to a functionalist pulse-wave theory of cyclical change. My takeaway is that the commons is indeed an interesting seemingly growing sentiment and a reaction to both big capitalism and libertarianism, a third way, if you will. I wrote about this phenomenon in my 2008 book Leadership

From Below. Arguably, an increased focus on developing the commons, would help foster a more egalitarian, just and sustainable world. I found Bauwens critique of the crypto-anarchic divide between commoners and libertarians, the latter underlying blockchain quite interesting, as I had earlier perhaps put that effort more in the commons camp than it deserves, because at the surface, they are both about getting rid of the middleman. Listen to Episode #52 <https://yegiiinc.cmail19.com/t/d-l-chtiilk-jliiuhlhf-m/>

[image: Listen on Spotify] <https://yegiiinc.cmail19.com/t/d-l-chtiilk-jliiuhlhf-c/> [image: Startup Mentoring in UAE] <https://yegiiinc.cmail19.com/t/d-l-chtiilk-jliiuhlhf-q/> In episode #64, Startup Mentoring in UAE <https://yegiiinc.cmail19.com/t/d-l-chtiilk-jliiuhlhf-a/>, futurist Trond Arne Undheim interviews Wafa Omar, founder of BizWhisper, a startup which is specialized in creative problem solving for entrepreneurs in the MENA region through mentoring, interviewed by futurist Trond Arne Undheim. In this conversation, we talk about startup mentoring in the UAE, in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), the political and economic alliance of six Middle Eastern countries—Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain, and Oman, and ostensibly in the MENA region as a whole. We discuss being a female entrepreneur in the Middle East and what the future holds. My takeaway is that the future of mentoring startups in the UAE, GCV, and MENA region is crucial for growing a healthy, thriving startup ecosystem. Having a home grown mentoring platform that caters to culturally specific mentoring needs is terrific. Listen to Episode #64 <https://yegiiinc.cmail19.com/t/d-l-chtiilk-jliiuhlhf-f/> [image: Listen on Google Podcasts] <https://yegiiinc.cmail19.com/t/d-l-chtiilk-jliiuhlhf-z/> [image: Future Tech - a preview] <https://yegiiinc.cmail19.com/t/d-l-chtiilk-jliiuhlhf-v/> In this mini-episode #71, Future Tech - a preview <https://yegiiinc.cmail19.com/t/d-l-chtiilk-jliiuhlhf-e/>, futurist Trond Undheim briefly discusses his upcoming book Future Tech: How to capture value from disruptive industry trends, to be published by Kogan Page in March 2021. He also reads an excerpt from the book. Future Tech explains how the four forces of technology, policy, business models and social dynamics work together to create industry disruption and how this understanding can help to predict what is coming next. The book will be on the syllabus for an upcoming course at Cornell Tech and has already received raving endorsements. Listen to Episode #71 <https://yegiiinc.cmail19.com/t/d-l-chtiilk-jliiuhlhf-s/> *About Futurized* Futurized goes beneath the trends, tracking the underlying forces of disruption in tech, policy, business models, social dynamics, and the environment. Join Trond Arne Undheim, futurist, author, and serial entrepreneur as he tracks the societal impact of deep tech such as AI, blockchain, IoT, life science and robotics.On the show, he interviews smart people with a soul: founders, authors, executives, and emerging thought leaders. Each episode is a narrative journey marked by triumphs, failures, serendipity and insight — told by the people behind some of the world’s top emerging and established talent. Futurized.co <https://yegiiinc.cmail19.com/t/d-l-chtiilk-jliiuhlhf-g/> is on Apple Podcast, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Amazon Music, iHeartRadio and Pandora, in fact it is, so far, syndicated to 20+ platforms <https://yegiiinc.cmail19.com/t/d-l-chtiilk-jliiuhlhf-w/>. The show has listeners from 28 countries. Search for Futurized or put the RSS feed <https://yegiiinc.cmail19.com/t/d-l-chtiilk-jliiuhlhf-yd/> into your podcast player of choice. [image: Listen on Pandora] <https://yegiiinc.cmail19.com/t/d-l-chtiilk-jliiuhlhf-yh/> [image: Listen on iHeartRadio] <https://yegiiinc.cmail19.com/t/d-l-chtiilk-jliiuhlhf-yk/> [image: Futurized podcast on Amazon Music] <https://yegiiinc.cmail19.com/t/d-l-chtiilk-jliiuhlhf-yu/> [image: Facebook] <https://yegiiinc.cmail19.com/t/d-l-chtiilk-jliiuhlhf-jl/> [image: Twitter] <https://yegiiinc.cmail19.com/t/d-l-chtiilk-jliiuhlhf-jr/> [image: YouTube] <https://yegiiinc.cmail19.com/t/d-l-chtiilk-jliiuhlhf-jy/> [image: LinkedIn] <https://yegiiinc.cmail19.com/t/d-l-chtiilk-jliiuhlhf-jj/> [image: Website] <https://yegiiinc.cmail19.com/t/d-l-chtiilk-jliiuhlhf-jt/> Yegii, Inc. | 8 Appleby Road, Wellesley, MA 02482 You are receiving this email because you are in Trond Undheim's LinkedIn Network. Unsubscribe <https://yegiiinc.cmail19.com/t/d-u-chtiilk-jliiuhlhf-ji/> -- P2P Foundation: http://wiki.p2pfoundation.net <http://p2pfoundation.net> - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Discuss: http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation Updates: ; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens Curation of news on p2p/commons developments: https://www.facebook.com/groups/p2p.open/