3I

Innovations, Impacts and Implications

J-Charles: Telephone – i phone 4S

• 2007 launch
• set to change everything
• more than a telephone : a revolution
• usual functions plus: video / MMS / apps
• steve jobs: 'amazing'
• sharing with other apple devices / voice recognoition
• voice to write function
• 60m
• Apps = productivity

Functionality + Usability

Efficiency + Effectiveness + Economy + Equity

Baptiste: GPS

• old system:
  • road map – required navigator
  • no paper updates without re-purchase
• 1978 = 1st GPS
  • can be just driver / no navigator
  • can make DIY itinerary
  • always updated
  • usability – easy for young / old – simple
  • radar / speed trap indication
  • shows speed limits
  • few negative points
    • concentrating on GPS not road (overcome by voice) ;

Cristiano. The number '0'  ZERO

• pre zero: no way of in-depth calculation – supports theory
• origins arabic  possibly Mayan
• new technology would not work without it: on/off 1 / 0

Geoffrey: Internal Combustion Engine

• 1876 creation.
• Daimler / Bentz – 1886
• Smaller
• More powerful than steam or available alternative
• Within the range of the individual
• Multiple uses: boats, planes, cars
• Improved working conditions
• agent of industrial development.

Dimitri.  PDAs

• Sharp developed in 1988
• PDA used from 1992 – launched @ LA event.
• Limited market – high price
• volume reduced price and increased sales
• Synchronisation to PC
• short life…. it is now embedded in smart phones / Blackberries / Iphones etc.
• Cross-over Business to personal markets

GPS: Lucas / John

• Drives behavioural change…..
• new format … but not replaced – one is a complement to the other
• new means of travel / map reading
• adds value:
  • more practical for driver when driving
  • sees speed traps / radar
  • can calculate time and distance and 'best route'
  • gives road work and congestion/traffic jam information
  • add personal 'markers' – easy to find next time
  • can see the 'tolls' péage
  • can see petrol stations
• Can bug / maps can't

Cell Phones / Mobile phones: Benoit

• Replaced a very ingrained and longstanding fixed mode
• previous world very different
• can call and be called anywhere
• massive new jobs
• from serious to fun
• mix of devices in one
  • games
  • films
  • cameras
  • sms
• relationships at distance
• teenagers the target
  • selling lifestyle
• letters virtually replaced – only odd postcards
• aggressive marketing
• will become omni-present

Franck.  Steam engine.

• Revolutionised industry
• new products:
• trains
• textile looms
• Delivers efficiency gains: speed / accuracy
• Led to 2-stroke and 4-stroke engines –> car and bikes
• Electric motors to replace… too much pollution …
• running costs too high / reliance of fossil fuels.

Etienne:  CRT.

• End 19c.
• 1907 – first picture by CRT
• 1922 – 1st TV comercialisation – America
• New info transmission
• New 'fast' broadband messaging
• –> new industries & job opps
• –> information system

USB : Loic

• 2002. gigabyte / octet
• easy transmission
• portability

ECONOMY / EFFICIENCY / EFFECTIVENESS / EQUITY

MARION: PC printers

• print everything 
• economic – no delay
• non-economic – killing trees
• proof of everything