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Bill Joy’s “What I’m worried about, what I’m excited about” talk at TED
Technologist and futurist Bill Joy talks about several big worries for humanity -- and several big hopes in the fields of health, education and future tech [...]
Posted in information technology, innovation, software Also tagged Bill Joy, Computer, Editor, education, engineer, environment, futurist, Magazine Article, technologist, TED conference, work Leave a comment
Howard Rheingold’s “Way-new collaboration” talk at TED
Howard Rheingold talks about the coming world of collaboration, participatory media and collective action -- and how Wikipedia is really an outgrowth of our natural human instinct to work as a group [...]
Posted in design, information technology, innovation, software Also tagged collaboration, Collaborative Projects, computer software, designer, digital media, Howard Rheingold, internet, Open Source Community, Open Source Software, social network, social networking, software industries, TED conference, writer Leave a comment
Robert Fabricant’s “Behavior is our Medium” keynote at IxDA | Interaction ‘09 Conference
Robert Fabricant talks about Interaction Design as a practice beyond just computing technology. He gives examples of Interaction Design as far back as ancient history, all the way to a humanitarian project underway today. He shows that Interaction Design’s primary medium is behavior, extending far past the high technology world into the realm of human [...]
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Advertising in China: Don’t Just Talk At Me, Talk With Me
“Don’t just talk at me, talk with me”. It is one of the 8 new rules for success in China’s changing branding environment summarized by marketing firms Landor Associates and Cohn & Wolfe, as outcome of the conference of Fifth China Branding Roundtable by the Economist Conferences. They interviewed many speakers and experts on the [...]
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Pattie Maes and Pranav Mistry ‘Sixth Sense’ demo at TED
This demo -- from Pattie Maes' lab at MIT, spearheaded by Pranav Mistry -- was the buzz of TED. It's a wearable device with a projector that paves the way for profound interaction with our environment. Imagine Minority Report and then some [...]
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Experience it before it’s real: Rapid Prototyping
Modeling software lets designers create everything from Michelangelo's David to shock absorbers. 3D printers deliver a rapid prototype to test designs before they go into production. Jason Medal-Katz, Senior Manager of Autodesk's Customer Briefing Center Program, talks to Wired magazine about how 3D printing lets designers send a file to a machine that prints it out using materials like plastic, rubber or metals, and it can make both static items and ones with moving parts...
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Watch Kevin Kelly’s “How technology evolves” talk at TED