This interview was was conducted by Jon Lebkowsky in April 2006. We're republishing it here as part of our month-long editorial retrospective.
WorldChanging: Could you say just a little bit about what led you into ubiquitous computing? I know you as a
It's been a long, long time since I said anything original in a presentation. I'm mostly fed up with talking about what I actually know about (brands/adverts/all that). And I don't know enough about the things I'm becoming interested in for anyone to
Those interconnected rings did use to stand for something, didn’t they? This year - with good reason - it’s all about boycotts, protests, and human rights violations when it comes to the Olympics.
But hundreds of countries coming together to compete on
Ubiquity and sustainability could turbocharge each other. Ubiquity enables revealed backstories, observed flows and shared services, making it easier to live well at a minimum of expense and ecological impact. Sustainability, particularly in the form
(((With Bruce Sterling, Adam Greenfield, Nicolas Nova and Yahoo scientist Elizabeth Churchill all geeking-out in high Italian form. Includes a host of ambitious Italian tech developers. "Can I leave the room now, professor? My brain is
Rather than just close it down, I thought I'd pose a question here: I'm sure there are lots of good designers and creative people who read my blog, so if I had a contest to design things like shirts and stickers and stuff, would anyone be interested in
Freire started with a tour of what the term Commons means today. The term sounds rather old-fashioned and probably most people wouldn't feel comfortable defining it today. It's something that comes right from Medieval Times but do the Commons still
PerDem Watch:
John Temporiti (MO)
Yolanda Wheat (MO)
Leila Medley (MO)
Hon. Robin Carnahan (MO)
Hon. Maria Chappelle-Nadal (MO)
I’m going to try and find some addresses and drop them each a line asking them to back Obama. Can’t hurt.
I was there this
The tales of my horrific black thumb are something of a family joke among my clan, but in spite of all that I acquired a pair of plants from a good friend whose green-thumbed acumen puts Mother Nature herself to shame. I promptly killed one of them, an
(((Even though my Wellmail is mysteriously down and the battery in my Nokia just died. Also my laptop's battery is expiring as I post this. Why is life like this? Am I really reduced to shattering Adam Greenfield's Central Dogma...