Sam Kinsley

• The End of the Virtual: Digital Methods
  "I would like to put forward a new era in Internet research, which no longer concerns itself with the divide between the real and the virtual. It concerns a shift in the kinds of questions put to the study of the Internet. The Internet is employed as a site of research for far more than just online culture. The issue no longer is how much of society and culture is online, but rather how to diagnose cultural change and societal conditions with the Internet." via Alex Pang
  (tags: actual/virtual internet spatiality geography research endofcyberspace digital place-space)
• Imperfect Futures - CFO Magazine - July/August 2009 Issue - CFO.com
  "Forecasting, never an activity companies felt particularly confident about, has now become nearly impossible. Processes that once resulted in mildly imperfect visions of the future now produce wildly imperfect ones. "The last 8 to 12 months have created a strong realization among many corporate leaders that whatever planning they may have been doing, they didn't factor in the possibility of the future being dramatically different from the past," says Andrew Blau, co-president of strategy consultancy Global Business Network."
  (tags: forecasting foresight anticipation economy futurism vision business)
• Trauma centers prep for surge in augmented reality apps | Good Morning Silicon Valley
  "As we know from extensive science fiction research, one day we will be equipped with unobtrusive and tastefully designed technology that will project before our eyes a heads-up display of information related to whatever real-life scene we’re looking at. That level of augmented reality, however, is a ways down the road, and unfortunately that road is likely to be strewn with the broken bodies of early adopters."
  (tags: augmentedreality anticipation urbancomputing urban speculation forecasting health mobility)

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