GE and the egg tray
When shopping, how important is it to know how many eggs are in your fridge? Probably more so when you buy another six to find you’re already stocked; or you don’t buy and then find you’ve none.
Inspiration
A look at how Microsoft views the future for the consumer.
Subject to change
Long (with a history lesson, tut tut), but some good insights here regardless.
Where will we be in 2012?
18036720 has written a piece where social media will be in 2010.
Futurology ::
A taste of things to come? Minority Report-style computing … The full #typed note is here …
Computer Algorithm Able to ‘Read’ Memories
Computer programs have been able to predict which of three short films a person is thinking about, just by looking at their brain activity.
Actually a somewhat thought-provoking look at how the net is shaping up, by IBM.
A look at where Google maybe/is heading …
This is from 2010, interesting what we were then thinking.
The future is – well – very cool going by one of the new product launches at CES 2010 today.
The Que eReader from Plastic Logic is eerily close to this Mag+ (Bonnier R&D concept video): The full #typed note is here …
The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is running a study where to analyse and explore the inter-relationship between the net and social media/social networking, the results of which could prove very interesting.
On Augmented reality, whilst this technology is very much in its infancy, there is some amazing work being undertaken – and this is a video from Lee Felarca showing what is possible.
What does the future hold? The full #typed note is here …
What will we all be doing in 2019?
Planning
An interesting view on what is happening to us because of the digital world. Written in 2009, what will be interesting is to see how this digital space develops as time progresses. I’ll be revisiting this every few years.
From the O’Reily Web 2.0 conference.
advertising ~ Digital advertising before and after 2008
Written by Chris Schaumann of Microsoft, this is a view of the digital world and it’s future, albeit from an MS viewpoint.
An Orwellian view of what we face
Created by Robin Sloan and Matt Thompson, Epic 2014 was released in November 2004 as a vision of the digital future.