49-807 Exponential Innovation
12 units, Carnegie Mellon University
This semester course explores the new paradigms of innovation and competitiveness. This disruption is happening because technologies such as computing, sensors, artificial intelligence, and 3D printing are advancing exponentially and converging. For more than 100 years, the processing power of computers has doubled every 18 months. Now it has come to the point where our smartphones are more powerful than yesterdays supercomputers were. Faster computers are now being used to design faster computers and computers and the information technology that they enable are absorbing other fields. In order to thrive in todays era of exponentially advancing technologies, students will need to understand the pace of change and learn to take advantage of the upheaval it will bring. Innovation has globalized business models and technology developed in one country can easily be exported to another there are massive opportunities for small groups of people to create an outsized positive impact on the world. This class teaches students how to watch for convergence and disruption and to think like the startups that are building the future of nearly every industry. The class combines lectures, discussions, group activities, and guest speakers to teach students this exciting rapid change to technology.
Prerequisites: none listed
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