Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Category Internet of Things
Mediamatic publishes comprehensive reader on RFID
Mediamatic, the Amsterdam cultural institution, has published a comprehensive reader on Radio Frequency Identification (RFID), as a preparation for their upcoming workshop on The Internet of Things (9-11 May – speakers include Régine Debatty and Malcolm McCullough). “Radio frequency identification…
Do not be too afraid of the coming age of mass participation [The Economist]
The future of the internet [Red Herring]
Alarm over shopping radio tags [BBC]
Smart Cities 2020 [Metropolis Magazine]
The surveillance society
Forbes special report on communicating
What you’ll wear in 10 years [Wired Magazine | Forbes]
Nature Magazine on the future of computing
Peter Morville presentation on ambient findabilility at SXSW
Bruce Sterling on the internet of things
What do European businesses and citizens think of widespread RFID use?
Wi-fi set to re-wire social rules [BBC]
Once the net becomes ubiquitous like power and water, it had the potential to be “transformative”. The divide that separates people from their online lives will utterly disappear. Instead of leaving behind all those net-based friends and activities when you…
Upcoming conferences on intelligent environments
Two upcoming conferences are exploring some of the implications that widely distributed technologies in our living environments (also called ambient intelligence, intelligent environments or ubiquitous computing) might have for people and the way we live. International Symposium on Intelligent…
Fins launch European network of Living Labs
The Finnish EU Presidency will launch a European Network of Living Labs – Co-creation of innovation in public, private and civic partnership on November 21, 2006. This is the first step towards a New European Innovation System (EIS). A European…
An exponentially expanding future from exponentially shrinking technology
Ray Kurzweill, author of The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology and featured before in this blog (link and link), was recently a guest speaker at the Council on Foreign Relations, where he discussed how our lives might look…
The future of UK transport in the next 50 years
We can either stumble into the future and just hope it turns out all right or we can try and shape it. A government thinktank charged with considering the future of UK transport in the next 50 years, just released…
“Shaping Things” by Bruce Sterling
“Shaping Things is about created objects and the environment, which is to say, it’s about everything,” writes Bruce Sterling in this addition to the Mediawork Pamphlet series. He adds, “Seen from sufficient distance, this is a small topic.” Sterling offers…
PC or people – who’s the boss? [CNET News.com]
Even though the days when computer-human interaction revolved around the C: prompt are far behind us, one legacy from that era remains. Despite sundry advances in operating systems over the intervening two decades, it’s still not entirely clear who’s the…