Imagination for the Future
Most users have no imagination. They want what they know. When they say they want the future, what they are really saying is that they want a moderately updated version of the past.
- MG Siegler
Via Startup Quote
The Future of Health
PSFK’s Future of Health Report details 15 trends that will impact health and wellness around the world. Simple advances such as off-the-grid energy and the introduction of gaming into healthcare service offerings sit alongside more future-forward developments such as bio-medical printing. It is our hope that this report will inspire your thinking and lead to services, applications and technologies that will allow for more available, quality healthcare.
Via PSFK
“At a time when websites are spilling off desktops onto sidewalks and computing in public spaces is dissolving into behavior, technology itself has shown boundary blindness. And humans are following suit. We carry our televisions in our pockets. We pay with our phones. And we read more than ever before on an unpredictable number of screens. It is possible to see beyond the small fences of the familiar, but first you must see no boundaries.”
Liz Danzico, See no boundaries (via 9-bits)
We Are Not Time Travelers
If you could take a time machine back to the 1970s what would you do? Designer Alex Varanese knows exactly what he would do, take back every bit of modern consumer technology and make millions. ALT/1977: WE ARE NOT TIME TRAVELERS re-imagins four common products from 2010 as if they were designed in 1977: an mp3 player, a laptop, a mobile phone and a handheld video game system.
“Innovative design always develops in tandem with innovative technology, and can never be an end in itself.”
Retina Display
Robert Scoble’s high definition photo of the iPhone 4. Taken with a Canon EOS 5D Mark II. Click to see full-size (5616 × 3744 pixels).
Reblogged from Jay Robinson
Lego In-Store Augmented Reality
Over the past year we’ve all seen the flood of cool but typically useless augmented reality gimmicks and parlor tricks, but Lego found a great use for the technology in their retail stores. Visitors to the store can walk up to the display with any box of Legos and see themselves holding the fully assembled set in the display.
Via Truly Deeply
“The truth is no online database will replace your daily newspaper, no CD-ROM can take the place of a competent teacher and no computer network will change the way government works …”
Neurosonics Live
As a follow up to the Neurosonics Audiomedical Laboratory video posted last year, Chris Cairns and crew reproduced the video in a live setting using a holographic turntable and drumkit. No CG or post production was added to the video—what you see is what the audience saw during the performance.
“I’m of the opinion that the advertising agency, in its current form, has a rather bleak future ahead. Certainly the automobile industry has taught us that you can’t continue to profit from a mediocre product forever. Wall Street showed us that eventually greed left unchecked is punished. And newspapers have demonstrated that by ignoring the real opportunities provided by technology you absolutely risk extinction in the longterm. And that’s where, I believe, the advertising industry largely finds itself today: mired in mediocrity, greed, and ignorance.”
- Bud Caddell
Everything’s Amazing & Nobody’s Happy
As everyone is discussing the latest technology announced today, it’s always good to put things into perspective.
Reblogged from Jarred Bishop and ckck
“Communications tools don’t get socially interesting until they get technologically boring… It’s when a technology becomes normal, then ubiquitous, and finally so pervasive as to be invisible, that the really profound changes happen.”
Clay Shirky, Here Comes Everybody
“If you want to understand the future, don’t pay attention to how technology is changing, pay attention to how childhood is changing.”
(via shawnyeager)
Mag+
As we’re getting close to closing out the decade of amazing technological advances many of the platforms of the past are reaching their end of their life—especially printed magazines and newspapers. Personally I don’t believe the medium is going anywhere, but the delivery is going to rapidly change over the next few years.
Bonnier R&D imagined a concept of what this new delivery for editorial content will look like. It’s a fascinating conceptual video, and I’m looking forward to the opportunities it will open.
Read more on the Mag+ Prototype and follow the discussion at the Bonnier R&D Beta Lab.
Computing as an Ecology
The future of computing lays ahead as we look towards one trillion connected computing devices compared to today’s one billion. Just how big is one trillion? One million seconds is roughly a week and a half ago, one billion seconds takes us back to the mid-1970s, and one trillion takes us back 30,000 years ago.
