Keynote speakers: “Homo Hominus: Vitruvian and dependable cyber society”

Abstract

Recently, Grand Challenges such as global water supply and global real time health monitoring are being addressed using state-of-the-art computer and communications technologies. These include such paradigms as: the Internet of Things (IoT), the Internet of Everything (IoE), fifth generation wireless networks (5G), robotics, artificial intelligence (AI) and alike. Following the definition of Christensen, they can individually be classified as disruptive innovation. However, this critical mass of innovations is collectively and synergistically impacting humanity and our behavior in an unprecedented fashion, and as such can be characterized as exponentially disruptive innovation. Homo Hominus© defined in this paper is a Homo Sapiens who possesses surviving and dominating intellectual skills adequate in the era of exponentially disruptive innovation.