The Future of Computing, TEDx Austin

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Sunday, February 21, 2010

Tron, 1982

Strange Days

“I’m your main connection to the switchboard of the soul...the

Santa Claus of the subconscious”

Strange Days

“The future is already here.

It’s just not evenly distributed.”William Gibson

The first phenomenon:

the product is changing

Toaster

Computer

Telephone

MEX: Personalization

phone?

IxDA 2009

phone?

Computer?

maybe instead, window?

The physical object islosing it’s functional identity

Open Systems Invite Innovation

it can be anything

you want it to be

The 2nd phenomenon:

people are living two lives

First Life

Second Life

inevitably our first and second lives

are becoming entangled

The 3rd phenomenon:

the human-computer

interface is making leaps

Touch was the important first step

It bridges the physical and virtual

the Wii introduced 3d control

The computer is learning to

interact with and in our world

Microsoft’s Project Natal

IxDA 2009

real seeds the virtual which in-turn

becomes the new real...

University of Washington Laboratory virtual reconstruction of The Old City of Dubrovnik

our world is captured, searched, correlated, and matched, powering computing, which in turn powers our world.

we will have to learn balance

Clip by Keiichi Matsuda

The 4th phenomenon:

the computing experience is

no longer tied to devices

the problem with computing

is that it still requires computers

special skills, special places

even now it still requires a special focus

computing is getting smarter about our world

- people, places, things.

and accessible within our world.

Amazon RemembersLayar iButterfly

we tag our world

we are tagging our world

our spaces are becoming the computer

...even at scale

Seimens Sensors

our world is becoming the computer

our things are becoming the computer

Big Brother is Everyone

we are becoming the computer

Inside > Out

The 5th phenomenon:

the body becomes node, peripheral,

and the interface itself

“Borgs” outside the MIT, circa 1995

the future seems ordinary when it finally arrives

Fashion will make todays wierd tomorrow’s ordinary.

Ralph Bremenkamp | www.frogdesign.com

We’ll get there in stages

how will this happen?

Lisa Jackson

Director of Strategy

frog design

Austin, Texas

PresentPast Future

Stage 1

The computer became part of our lives

Stage 2

We could bring the computer with us

Stage 3

We can see through the computer

facebook Second Sight

Lisa Jackson

Director of

Strategy

frog designAustin, Texas

ALERT:

It’s her

Birthday!

friends with:

John Doe

-----(Restricted List)

Stage 4

The computer is on us

Stage 4

Stage 5

The computer is us

which leads to a last provocative question...

would you give away an eye

to have it replaced with a camera?

Rob Spence | www.eyborgblog.com

Laboratory experiments with contact lense mounted displays...

(on bunnies)

Microsoft

Sensecam

photograph your entire life

mass-market examples

Airstrip OB Remote Monitoring Application

Google Latitude | www.google.com/latitude

Nintendo Wii | www.wii.com

frog design, e-monitors, 2009

So what happens when the device that records your medical status is the same device you use to update your social connections?”Lee Maguire, 2009

your heartbeat becomes

a conversation

“I can see through satellites now”Warren Ellis & Adi Granov, Iron Man, 2008

we know how that feels, right?

how quickly is augmented reality

leading us to feel the need

for an augmented body

to fully take advantage of it?

or in other words...

Would you give an eye

to see through satellites?

mark.rolston@frogdesign.com

www.frogdesign.com

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