HP Innovation Journal Issue 06: Spring 2017 | Page 2

Abraham Lincoln once said, “you cannot escape
the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.” As innovators and for-
ward thinkers, I believe the onus is us to understand what lies ahead, how
societies will change, economies will ebb and flow and the world around
us will transform. That’s why each year HP deep dives into the major socio,
economic and global trends happening in an effort to understand where
the world is heading.
In this issue, we get a glimpse at the future through our annual HP
Megatrends report. This year’s report explores future themes including
the evolution cities will endure in the coming years, the differing realities
of middle class families across the globe and the rise of the autonomous
workers thanks to artificial intelligence, machine learning and robotics. We
marry these learnings with our advancements in technologies to help to
inform our strategic decisions around future products and services; and
the experiences we deliver through them.
Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) certainly offer up new ways
to experience games, consumer content and now commercial applications.
Pan HP teams have been working furiously to bring new VR solutions to
our customers and I’m excited we get to share those efforts and where the
team sees VR heading.
Our technology advancements in VR and AR are just the tipping point
of what’s brewing in the HP Engine Room. The Engine Room creates a
multi-disciplinary environment so solutions can share the same capa-
bilities and attributes — allowing us to move faster and smarter. Making
way for amazing innovations like Sprout by HP, which is being used by Yale
University to reinvent the classroom and unleash student imaginations.
I feel confident that with an eye to the future, HP’s amazing spirit of inno-
vation and close collaboration with our customers and partners, we are
charting the right course forward. Let’s journey to the future together! 
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Shane Wall
Chief Technology Officer
and Global Head of HP Labs
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