our new super powers
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The evolving relationship between people and technology. by Mark RolstonTRANSCRIPT
Iron Man from Marvel Comics
Our New Super PowersThe evolving relationship between people and technology
Mark Rolston, Chief Creative O!cer
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what why
our devices our selves
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but first,
my predictions for the future of mobile
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Next year’s device will be better, smaller, sometimes bigger, there will be more apps, carriers will still be struggling to keep up and too many minor variations on the same theme will be fighting for market share.
that’s it.
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mobile now comes in many shapes and sizes
17” 3.5”..... 2”?
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mobile’s value to us continues to expand
music player telephone
camera
alarm clock
televisionnewspaper
calculator
white pages
assistant
wallet
web browser
video cameragame box
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markets collide...
creating“new”
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mobile = computing
(computers, just, you know, mobile)
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the laptop was the gateway drug
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Tron, 1982this is the new crack.
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however....
the next big thing in computing is not a thing...
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the purpose of
a computer is
to help you do
something else”Mark Weiser
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so if it’s not a thing, then what is it?
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well, there are a few
emerging drivers:
our bodies,
our spaces,
and the cloud
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first,
the human body
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“Borgs” outside the MIT, circa 1995
early pioneers
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Google Latitude | www.google.com/latitude
there are plenty of innocuous examples
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and plenty ofradical leaps in the experimental stage
Laboratory experiment testing rabbits with contact lense mounted displays
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frog design Dattoos Concept
Twinkle
...and even more concepts
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implantable electronics
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Lyric Hearing | www.lyrichearing.com
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frog design, e-monitors, 2009
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Nintendo Wii | www.wii.com
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Timo Arnall, 2008 | www.nearfield.org
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we are becoming the computer
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second,
the space around us
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Fluid Interfaces Group LuminAR
the real world is the new touchscreen
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Microsoft Kinect
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life becomes just another level in a videogame
EpicMIX
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we can use technology to
create our own personal reality
http://unlogo.org
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where does it end?
Clip by Keiichi Matsuda
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third,
compute and the cloud
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client
compute
cloud
connect
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the map will outgrow the territory
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the map will outgrow the territory
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everyone, everything, and everywhere become part of the network
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RUG
Matsushita Electric Carpet
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umbrella
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household items
personal electronics
personal healthcare
hospital equipment
sports equipment
furniture
professional instruments
tools
food packaging
shipping packaging
clothes
architecture
transportation
public spaces
o!ces
our desks
our shoes
our cars
our stu!
our appliances
our underwear
our children’s toys
in the packaged food we buy
on the factory floor
at the watercooler
along the highway
watching
listening
measuring
calculatingreporting
recording
sampling
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Photo: Jan Chipchase
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to what end?
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“knowledge is power”sir francis bacon
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super powers
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“I can see through satellites now”Warren Ellis & Adi Granov, Iron Man, 2008
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- situational awareness- extending our senses - throwing our senses- finding- knowing- remembering- thinking (correlate, calculate, etc)
the extension of the self
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super powers
extend our
senses
extend our self be anywhere
see and hear more
...and in new
dimensions
(time, place, data, etc)
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people, places, and things
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people
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META-ME
people
Actual Me Virtual Me
Body MeFinancial Me
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conversation in the third person
video of video game in/out of third person
or TheSims game pic
We can step outside of ourselves
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be anyone
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62Microsoft Sensecam
the end of forgetting
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places
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“being there”
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65Creating a sense of place
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we can see and talk to anyone, anywhere
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“if you (virtually) build it they will (virtually) come”
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Google Street View for the o!ce
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experience anywhere
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any dimension of anywhere
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any dimension of anywhere
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things
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Bruce Sterling.
An object that can be tracked through space and time throughout the lifetime of the object.
spime
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anything
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anything (anywhere!)
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anything
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anything
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our super powers come from this emerging infrastructure
our sensesourselves
and thingsour environment
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our sensesourselves
and thingsour environment
and everyone else
we share it with
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we are no longer just ourselves
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www.frogdesign.com
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the number of ways we can connect has grownexploded
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