Tue, Dec 14 2010
What do you think the world looks like 30 years from now?
I don’t know either, but that’s the question they asked at tonight’s panel at 92YTribecca talking about the future of digital communication. Listed below are some of the ideas I glommed from the discussion. All in all, I found it quite fascinating. Your mileage may vary.
- always connected
- personal publishing
- artistic medium
- language evolving
- open source/content/culture
- IP rights when everything is 3D printable?
- shift from consumers to producers
- ephemeralization of technology
- increasingly higher levels of abstraction lead to diminishing ability to grasp details
- pluggable culture
- design for hacking
- facilitate cross-disciplinary collaboration
- technology shapes our interactions/decisions
- are we headed to tyranny of the majority?
- defense and gaming: leading edge of computer-brain interface
- not only humans will be online, devices too. multiple personalities, fragmentation of the self
- machines have not made people more rational, just more mechanistic in their thinking
- spreading ourselves thinner across more areas of knowledge leads to a greater reliance on technology to fill the gaps (google)
- privacy – where do you draw the line? most problems due to lack of understanding of consequences of sharing information online
- trust networks
- boundaries disintegrating. micro-niches of shared interest/belief
As the discussion came to a close, I realized that I was still unable to see the future any clearer than before. But i did leave with a feeling that i had learned something valuable tonight. and it’s that the future will undoubtedly be … quirky.
4 Comments
Michael M | 12/14/2010 4:33 AM
Sorry-Digits are out. BWC (Brain Wave Capture is in). Rather than digital addresses we have DNA addresses that are emitted from the firing of brain stems and released into a (personal communications bandwidth) leased by Clinton Fleenor. CF will think he controls everything, but really AMP is running the show. Don’t tell the mayor though.
Clinton | 12/14/2010 12:31 PM
Sub-lease early – the price will follow demand! Your order will include complimentary constant affirmation.
Michelleb | 12/14/2010 3:37 PM
I think when there is a cycle of change and a greed for more (a glutton cycle) that is often followed by a cycle of refinement and quality over quantity (a purge cycle). Better, clearer, easier. I also think computers will look less and less like computers and we will laugh at pictures of ourselves sitting and typing at terminals.
grangermdk | 12/14/2010 8:37 PM
thanks for sharing this, great info