alex howard: "the future is here. it's just not evenly distributed yet."
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William Gibson stopped writing about the future because he says it's already here - this talk illustrates that.@digiphile http://radar.oreilly.com/alexhTRANSCRIPT
Alex HOWARDThe future is here. It's just not evenly distributed yet.
@digiphile
"The future is here.
It's just not evenly distributed yet."
The future is mobile.
In 2010, 82% of Americans have a cellphone.
60% of American adults go online wirelessly.
Source: Pew Internet
Smarter cities
Source: IBM
Smarter commuting through data
Image Credit: Real Time Rome from Senseable.MIT.edu
Augmented streets
Augmented reality
Pervasive connectivity
Image Credit: PetitInvention
Smarter cycling
spime
“A theoretical object that can be tracked precisely in space and time over the lifetime of the object”
-Wordspy
Image Credit: @knolleary
Cities of spime
Image Credit: City Of Sound
Real UFOs
“ Everything grows miscellaneous. And people are transformed into ubiquitous findable objects (UFOs), along with pets, products, possessions and places”-David Weinberger
Digitalmemories
Image Credit: Portal To Your Dreams
Augmented overload!
Image Credit: Daonk.org
“Ambient findability” - Peter MorehouseImage Credit: Scott McLeod
We’ll need better filter/browsers
Image credit: PC World on Aurora
Better social software
Image Credit: Mediabistro
Better apps to audit data
Solar clouds
and novelpublicdata
displays
Image Credit:Inhabitat
Digital tools for open government
NY Senate on iTunes
Platforms for citizens to self-organize
Image Credit: ITO World