The Future of Computing, TEDx Austin

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


MEX: Personalization

phone?


© 2007 frog design. Confidential & Proprietary.MEX: Personalization

phone?


IxDA 2009

phone?



Computer?


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


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


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we will have to learn balance

Clip by Keiichi Matsuda


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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


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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


we are becoming the computer


Inside > Out


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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


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Laboratory experiments with contact lense mounted displays...

(on bunnies)


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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

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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?


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The Future of Computing, TEDx Austin

Technology

world people

humancomputer interface

phone mex

special places

powering computing

computing experience

special skills

special focus