Download - Tech megatrends
4 Tech megatrendsAntony Slumbers, MD, Estates Today
“a solution in search of a problem”
1Mobile
207,000,000 Smartphones Q4 2012
One in three of all page views are now from
phone or tablet
13-fold growth in data traffic predicted from 2012-2017
90 seconds
262%
87%
“The UK’s first mobile Christmas”
2The Connective Tissuethat “allows the modern world to function”
Hello
Goodbye
iPhone just 6 years old.
Do you remember the clamshell razr?
Smart phones are not phones
fibre
=
Driverless cars
Real time language translation
Real time satellite mapping
Voice controlled search
UK government aims for 2 Mb/s by 2015
South Korea: 2 Gb/s
The CloudFreedom at last
3
Freedom…
…to compete on a level playing field
…to Bring Your Own Device
…that comes from always being up to date
…to work where and when you want
4The Internet of Things
340,282,366,920,938,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
Why is this a megatrend for commercial property?
The “Smart City” is coming
Opportunity to develop wide range of new services
Is there a roadmap?
Real time information on the availability of parking spaces. And of course directions to get to them
Street lighting that adapts to weather, time of day and traffic or pedestrian flows
Access control to restricted areas and detection of people in non-authorized areas
Self-monitoring equipment, providing advance warning of problems
Self-monitoring equipment, providing advance warning of problems
To sum up…
You and your people will work differently :
whatever information you need will be available wherever
20 Fenchurch StreetThe “Walkie Talkie”Size: 62,895 sqmAvailability: 29,446 sqmDeveloper: Canary Wharf Group PLC
Land SecuritiesAgent: Knight Frank, CBRE
Filter failure will give way to contextual serendipity
How clients - everyone - uses real estate will change.
Computing is not about computers any more.
It is about living.
Nicholas Negroponte, Founder MIT Media Labs