The Outcomes
The presentations by each of us went well on their own. I was anxious about how the audience participation component might go. I was pleasantly surprised at how deeply engaged and enthusiastic the audience was to participate live with the experience. Each 'outcome' of a configuration of prompts results in a sentence, possibly initially nonsense-sounding, that we then collectively (from the dias, as well as people contributing from the audience) imagined as a real-world product or service. The point was to show how effective it is to think outside of one's comfort zone to allow something that feels nonsensical or plain old nonsence, and let it find its context until you feel that '..actually, this gives me an idea..' moment.
A panel with my esteemed colleagues and friends, Avi Bar-Zeev from RealityPrime (we actually worked at each of our very first start-ups back in Seattle called WorlDesign where Neal Stephenson was a regular visitor and a bit of a bard), and Andreea Ion Cojocaru from NUMENA