Category Foresight
Ubiquitous computing gone mad
The user is the content
Vodafone’s Receiver magazine is “at home”
The latest issue of Vodafone’s Receiver magazine (#18) is entitled “at home” and is introduced as follows: Digital media are entering the connectivity as a matter of course era, and they are entering the “home zone”: the home (for many…
Gartner’s interview with Eric von Hippel
The infrastructure of experience and the experience of infrastructure
Robot future poses hard questions [BBC]
Ubiquitous computing is messy
The importance of magic in designing ubiquitous user experiences
Ancient manuscript teaches machines how to talk to people
Business Week interviews Nokia’s Jan Chipchase
UNESCO publishes survey on ethical implications of emerging technologies
UK hosting provider imagines web in 2020
Jan Chipchase of Nokia on delegating positive experiences
MIT Media Lab Europe founder starts Distance Lab
Where artists and inventors plot to save the world [The New York Times]
Design led futures
Nokia Research on new potentials for car sharing
KPMG on how digital media are affecting work, play and relationships across Europe
Envisioning the whole digital person [UX Matters]
Excellent feature article by Jonathan Follett in UX Matters: “Our lives are becoming increasingly digitised—from the ways we communicate, to our entertainment media, to our e-commerce transactions, to our online research. As storage becomes cheaper and data pipes become faster,…