Archive for June, 2008
Somewhere in the not too distant future
On SLCN.TV we have a quiz show called The 2nd Question. One segment features a notable quote each week. Today it featured Ray Kurzweil:
I’m an inventor. I became interested in long-term trends because an invention has to make sense in the world in which it is finished, not the world in which it is started.
After […]
Skating on frozen moments in time
Today I was watching a wonderful presentation by Mark Pesce, a futurist and thinker who I greatly admire and I am lucky to know quite well.
His presentation titled “Those Whacky Kids” talks about the phenomenon of co-presence (a term that emerged out of research in Japan by Mimi Ito that analyzes mobile phone behaviour) where […]