The Future of Our Stuff

5th Year Industrial + Interaction Design Thesis Research

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http://www.personalthreatlevel.com

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Followup: Which technologies will have the biggest impact by 2025?

A few days ago, I posted the Teaser. Now you can rewatch the Hangout above. // I have not seen it yet. Watch it at your own risk.

Which five futuristic technologies are likely to have the biggest impact by 2025? And what can people start doing, from today, to prepare for the changes and to ensure positive outcomes? London Futurist Hangout On Air recorded on 3rd November 2013.

Panellists Kevin Russell, Peter Rothman, Riva-Melissa Tez, Clyde DeSouza, and José Luis Cordeiro. For context and more info, see http://londonfuturists.com/2013/10/28….

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I really appreciate how the maker of this short video studied Star Wars films to dissect why they were successful. It's so common in American culture for the slurring of our opinions, as well as our ability to be carried away with fictitious stories. Made-up characters, actors playing pretend, scenarios made with the stuff of our dreams, and ultimately, pieces of ourselves that we find in others.

Science fiction storytelling is in the art of sobering character development - technology and environments play a critical role, but are just suggestions to the complicated worlds we are capable of creating.

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Walking the LHC tunnel on Google Streetview. 

All that expensive technology, and then they go and spray-paint signs on the wall…

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This is absolutely beautiful, real, and ficticious.

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Corning Glass Museum of Art, Speculative Trailer for the Future of Interaction

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Miss NASA 1968/1969  |  Isn't she lovely?

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The model is always a model of. The desire of the model is to act as a simulacrum of another object, as a surrogate which allows for imaginative occupation.

Hubert 1981

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And in my free time, I like to sketch while watching youtube videos!

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Rule 1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.

Writers, filmmakers, engineers, scientists, and designers have been envisioning the next generation of life - through robotics. In each of their own ways, the question is not "Can this product be built?" Instead, the questions are "Should this product be built?" (Lean Start-Up). 

Maker Faire NY 2013 was outstanding. I have never felt more at home in an environment of eclectics. Updates coming soon.

I met one of my favorite Futurists this weekend, Brian David Johnson, and heard about the launch of his robots21.com project to entice anyone to build their own future robot. How exciting. I sent him an e-mail follow-up to see where I might fit in the project.

I've been having a lot of conversations lately, listening to old-time radio programs, and more recently, This American Life. For the next stage of my research, I am going to teach myself how to write an effective narrative. 

Science Fiction writers are Designers. They see the world for what it is, and teach the reader how to view things through their lens. 

* Oh, and Bruce Sterling started following my blog. Hi Bruce. Yes, I bought your book used, and I love it. I take it with me everywhere - perfect size -

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3M TouchScreen - A Design Vision for the Future

How far are we from using glass surfaces to interact with information?

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The fabric of tomorrow?

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When the amount of information available to us no longer incites a sense of wonder, will we care or consider where things come from anymore?

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3D Printed Ornithopters

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Automated pirating at bay

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I'm speculating...

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What objects should we enchant? Let's start with the History of the Future.

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Things that don’t work create interesting stories...Finding the uncomfortable haunting fiction that surrounds an object, the place where social life starts to break down and fracture is far more interesting than a world that ‘just works’.

Matt Ward