From the monthly archives: March 2009
Matt ‘blackbelt’ Jones has created this superb pastiche of the now fetishized British wartime ‘keep clam and carry on’ poster. However, when I first encountered the ‘keep calm’ posters and found one of the originating sellers I rather preferred one of their other offerings, being a geographer:
I notice with great sadness that Tom’s Pies is no more, it has been credit crunched. Tom’s, set up by a graduate of the university, was a purveyor of many fine pies that have fueled the School of Geographical Sciences over the last year or so. We now have one less alternative to [...]
Technology Review: Mapping a City's Rhythm Citysense is a downloadable application for the iPhone and BlackBerry. It provides a heat map of GPS activity in a major city. Maps show red patches that indicate higher activity, the user’s location (a solid yellow dot) and suggest popular destinations (yellow circles). (tags: technology mobile [...]
A clever chap at MIT’s Media Lab Pranav Mistry has created what he calls “a wearable gestural interface that augments the physical world around us with digital information and lets us use natural hand gestures to interact with that information”. This has been picked up by quite a number of people, [...]
Augmented Urban Spaces by Alessandro Aurigi and Fiorella De Cindio Yet more physical-digital binary 'space': "This book explores the intersection and articulation of physical and digital environments and the ways they can extend and reshape a spirit of place. It considers this from three main perspectives: the implications for the public sphere and urban [...]
According to istartedsomething and Steve Clayton, Microsoft’s ‘Business Division President’ Stephen Elop ‘premiered’ the ‘future vision 2019‘ in a presentation at the Wharton Business Technology Conference in February.
MS Office Labs – Envisioning Office Labs (of 'future vision of…' fame) 'envisioning' strategy – "Take a step into the future and get a glimpse into how technology may transform the way we live and work in the years ahead. Explore some of our concepts for how leading edge technologies might be used in [...]
“The future will be better tomorrow” – Dan Quayle
“with faith in the future, let us together build tomorrow today” – Gordon Brown
Last week the British media treated us to a swathe of coverage [Guardian, BBC, Telegraph] of the Metropolitan police force’s apparent fear of a ‘summer of rage‘, set to take place this year, 2009, as a result of increasing disenchantment with the [...]
I have been collecting together ‘vision’ videos for future(s) computing on my YouTube ‘favourites’. I’ve decided to post them here and categorise them as “past computing futures” posts with the aim of cataloguing what I find. I welcome suggestions and links!
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