Sam Kinsley

• The Coming Age of Calm Technology
  Weiser and Seely Brown's paper building on the PARC 'ubicomp' research programme outlining a 'coming age of calm technology'. The article reprdoces Weiser's ideas about historical 'waves' of progress in computing.
  (tags: research ubicomp anticipation envisioning forecasting weiser computing)
• A Protrait of the Young Visionary [Jaron Lanier interview]
  An early interview with Jaron Lanier, poster-boy for VR with some great material: "Virtual Reality is conceived of as an expansion of reality, the provision of alternate realities for people in mass in which to share experiences, and so the types of metaphors that come up are things like cars, travel, different countries, different cultures. For instance, you might very well have a virtual car that you ride around even though physically you're in one place. It would go through different territories in Virtual Reality so that you could get around them - or transporter booths, perhaps. So you could have geographical metaphors. There might very well evolve a new geography, let's say - a fictitious planet with new continents that you can dive into to find new realities."
  (tags: technology interview VR futurism speculation telecommuting envisioning actual/virtual technicity)
• Future Shock, Apple 1988 - mprove.de
  Apple's 1988 'future shock' vision video.
  (tags: design video hci envisioning vision foresight apple futurism future anticipation computing technology)
• HCI Vision Videos - mprove.de
  A good collection of vision videos all on one page, not all link to the actual videos but a good repository.
  (tags: vision video history interface hci ubicomp futurism foresight envisioning technology computing speculation)

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