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Charlie Stross: Shaping the future
Transcript of a keynote speech given by Charlie Stross to a tech consultancy open day. Exponential change, technological impacts, all the good stuff.All the World's a Tag
"The basic idea is that a slew of emerging technologies -- RFID tags, wireless networking, portable devices hooked up to satellites, wearable computing -- will make objects in the real world actPrint on Demand
"Daily newspapers printed on demand by Newspapers Direct. What does the fact that this business exists in a world of ubiquitous digital content say about our appreciation of physical content?&quoInternet Archive: Details: Everyware: The dawning age of ubiquitous computing - A talk by Adam Greenfield
A video of the talk Adam Greenfield gave at Keio University on July 15, 2006. The topic is Adam's recently published book "Everyware: The dawning age of ubiquitous computing."I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by Google
"Ted got busted because we do graffiti. Losing Ted was a big setback, as Ted was the only guy in our gang who knew how to steal aerosol spray cans." It's a short story from Bruce Sterling! REveryware- The dawning age of ubiquitous computing
Adam Greenfield about ubiquitous computing.The future of computing: Quantum leap
Great futurist article on CNN by one Stuart Wolf, depicting a near-future where your computer lives in a headband, and you see your data in your normal field of vision, thanks to quantum computers. GoSituated Technologies Pamphlets 1: Urban Computing and its Discontents von Adam Greenfield, Mark Shepard (Buch) in Arts & Photography
explores the implications of ubiquitous computing for architecture and urbanism: How is our experience of the city and the choices we make in it affected by mobile communications, pervasive media, ambpasta and vinegar » Ubicomp and user experience at LIFT07
Not very well structured thoughts on the LIFT07 talks about ubiquitous computing. There was a dedicated session about it with Julian Bleecker, Ben Cerveny and Adam Greenfield but some other talks canWhen Words Collide
Matt Dyke, Worldwide Planning Director and Jeroen Matser, Senior Planner, discussed the new landscape of digital innovations converging with the physical world.Wearables Research
Can we use wearable electronic devices to portray our feelings and propagateKeeping it Simple
Well-designed media provide peripheral clues that subtly direct users along particular interpretive paths by invoking social and cultural understandings. Context and content work efficiently togetherInternal RFID tagging for all RENO GmbH shoes
"The latest news from the RFID scene is that European shoe company Reno GmbH is to embed RFID tags into the soles of a large proportion of all the shoes that it sells..."Comparing AI’s Failures with Ubicomp’s Visions
Via Captain Bruce, a link fest that I haven't yet taken the time to go through thoroughly - but it looks like it is loaded with goodies.Vernor Vinge Paints the Future at AGC
"Award-winning science fiction Vernor Vinge, speaking at the Austin Game Conference, gave his vision of a future in which connectivity was literally in the air around us." Hat-tip to Bruce SThe DIY Future
What Happens When Everyone Is a Designer » SlideShareYour Digital Wallet
"With new technology called near-field communications, you could use a cell phone to make purchases, or even download a movie trailer from a poster." Is there anything that your mobile phoneKorea's U-city
In New Songdo City, a "ubiquitous city" being built in South Korea, all major information systems (residential, medical, business, governmental, etc.) share data, and computers are to be buiCredit card-sized 'Computer-On-Module'
Very small computers indeed, for building into 'embedded applications'. Ubicomp and Everyware are edging closer to reality every moment... Link via OhGizmo.Semapedia.org: index
With Semapedia you can hyperlink your physical world with knowledge that matters (i.e. Wikipedia entries). To do this you create small Semapedia Tags consisting of a cell-phone readable 2D Barcode thapasta and vinegar » Talk in Torino
Nicolas' talk at Experientia in Torino July 2007MIT Media Lab: Things That Think Consortium
Things That Think is inventing the future of digitally augmented objects and environments. We bring a unique, boundary-breaking perspective to research, uniting leaders in science, engineering, designResearch report on a wearables project
Since electronic components are small enough to be embedded in any possible object they will literally become an integral part of our lives. This implies that electronic devices will be far more influ
