Near Future Laboratory Blog
Thoughts, Reflections, Updates & Week Notes
Sep 27, 2010 – Nov 1, 2010
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Nov 01, 2010
Just a short note to draw your attention to this cool quarterly journal called Volume which you may already know about but which I only heard about when they asked if I would contribute a short piece on Design Fiction. Basically it is a condensation of the longer essay from last winter which is presently offline due…
Approaches to DesignDesign FictionPeculiarScience FictionarticleDesignMoonPublished
Oct 20, 2010
The fine folks at Piemonte Share in Torino are doing a creative competition called Action Sharing 2!
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Oct 17, 2010
Well, got about half way through the new Steven Johnson book Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation and still going. He tells a good story and I believe much of it. There’s something funny going on in there, though. I’ll sort it out. Seems maybe a bit simple in its argument — things alongside…
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Oct 17, 2010
If I followed this to its logical yet design fiction-y conclusion, I’m sure I’d find the devil himself. GeneralAddictionAppleiPhone
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Oct 06, 2010
Well, probably the most intriguing thing that happened last week was the unexpected conversations that started up around the graphs of the future presentation I gave (all of 15 minutes) at the University of Michigan last Saturday the 2nd. It wasn’t unexpected in the sense that it was an award-winning 15 minutes of f…
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Sep 29, 2010
At the Microsoft Research Social Computing Symposium 2010, it was a pleasure to hear Steven Johnson drop a few tidbits on his soon-to-be-released book Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation he described an interesting perspective on the history of ideas — or in a more marketable, business-type…
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Sep 28, 2010
These are some of the examples of Design Fiction as used in some Science Fiction film. I presented these at the University of Michigan’s “Future of Technology” symposium.
Design FictionDesign Fiction ChroniclesFilm Review
Sep 27, 2010
Well..Most of the week was spent working on the work, enjoying the change that comes from change and new personalities and wondering excitedly about where things are going. I spent a bit of time relearning video editing and compilation tools because I still thing the visual story is a wonderful way to do design. ((W…
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