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Data shadows vs. information shadows and… ubicomp.
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Mike K on why he calls ubicomp ubicomp: "Lately, I've been thinking about why "ubiquitous computing" has such problems as a name. When I talk about it, people either dismiss it as a far-future pipe-dream, or an Orwellian vision of panoptic control and dominance. I don't see it as either. I've never seen it as an end point, but as the name of a thing to examine and participate in, a thing that's changing as we examine it, but one that doesn't have an implicit destination. I see it as analogous to "Physics" or "Psychology," terms that describe a focus for investigation, rather than an agenda."
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Mike K outlines a book on Ubicomp UX design…
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A recent presentation on ubicomp UX design: "a combination of ubiquitous computing, wireless networking and item-level identification is changing the nature of people's relationship to everyday objects. This change, in turn, creates a number of deep user experience design challenges as objects become intertwined with services and as computation becomes a more ingrained part of how the object is designed."
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Sterling on another new buzzword 'data shadows': "It's fantastic how well this blog-post captures the vibe of alpha geeks standing around blue-skying concepts at ETech. It's like it dematerializes startup culture and you're a fly on the wall. Dang"… it's a vaguely interesting idea though…
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Hmm… "I'm at a future of video workshop at the Institute for the Future today, and the topic of the participatory panopticon has come up. For people who are new to the concept, here's the original discussion of the participatory panopticon, the text of a talk I gave in May of 2005. I'd been talking about the PP since early 2004, but this was the best summary of the argument (at least as it stood in 2005)."
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Cascio suugests three scaffolds for the future: participatory, interconnected and leap-frog futures: "These are clearly not necessarily mutually-exclusive scenarios, but different ways of thinking about how anticipation, response, and resilience manifest in an era of crisis."
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"The UK's academy of science, The Royal Society, celebrates its 350th anniversary next year with a new report looking to the next 50 years. But, says Tim Radford, it should beware the perils of predicting the future"
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