Valter Adao is not a drone specialist. He’s Deloitte’s chief digital officer and he’s fascinated by technological disruption. Drones, he told the attendees at DroneCon 2018 at Vodaworld in Midrand, will disrupt our world just like Uber, Airbnb, Amazon and Netflix have already done.
The trajectory is exactly the same: the six Ds of technical disruption: digitisation, deception, disruption, dematerialisation, demonetisation and finally democratisation. Legacy companies that have taken years to get to where they are in terms of market share look askance at the fledgling tech start ups and don’t take them seriously with all their false stars and glitches, but then when they iron out the kinks those start ups fly past and the legacy companies end up wondering where their market share has vanished, taken by competitors who threw out the playbook entirely.
“This kind of debate is happening with every form of new technology; Blockchain, crypto-currency, drones, artificial intelligence. The battle to unlock innovations equals opportunities and threats. We have to be cognisant of the threat, not just the cyber threat, but the human threat too.
“Moore’s Law holds true now more than ever. The 50-year-old theory that technology doubles in capacity and halves in price every 18 months. Music went form the gramophone to the iPod and five years later the iPod is obsolete.
“We are often dismissive of the threat because it takes so long to get there and thenthere’s chaos and amazement like the taxis and Uber or video stores and Netflix. The same thing is happening with drones,” he said.
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