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Uploaded by on Jul 25, 2007

Google Tech Talks
April 30, 2007

ABSTRACT

World-renowned Science Fiction writer and futurist Bruce Sterling will outline his ideas for SPIMES, a form of ubiquitous computing that gives smarts and 'searchabiliity' to even the most mundane of physical products. Imagine losing your car keys and being able to search for them with Google Earth.

This same paradigm will find you "wrangling" with product-lifecycle- management systems that do for physical objects what the iPod has done for music. These and other radical ideas are delivered in Sterling's latest book`Shaping Things'. This concise book was written to inspire designers to visualize radical scenarios connecting information technology and...

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  • ... full house

  • Yes. It is easy to be loud and insulting when you are ignorant and don't examine all possible outcomes or have all the information. Take a lesson from history and do some research on the subject before you insult people. Who controls the media? Who monitors and manipulates society and behavior trends? But no, you're right. We wouldn't have manipulators if there was a mass government. No wars, violence, deception. Right? What about free will? Privacy, just a small price to pay for security.

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  • Fuck google for posting such long videos that take forever to load like their YouTube movies

  • really good video! Thanks for sharing :)

  • manuel de landa

    shaun gallaher

  • If you are short of time, the interesting starts when you skip the first 9 min...

  • Shit this is a funding pitch.

    Oh dear.

    Never happen... nothing proprietory. They're just after the god damn cash.

    NEW PARADIGM MY ASS. It's a job pitch.

  • "These ideas are very systemic." What does that even mean ?

    The reason he keeps fluffing his words is that he knows he's bullshitting.

    They're just making shit up and trying to make it sound like some sort of rigerous [ cnt spl ] design process and it just ain't. Fail... no. Flail. He's flailing.

  • The design guy is talkin' about MARKETING not stories.

    It's wooly minded hokum. Things ain't mythologies and ya can't predict the narratives ahead of time.Like Gibson said 'The street makes it's own uses for things.'

    Things the designers never think of and often ain't even legal.

    Narratives my ass. It's advertizing.

  • I take it back. The more I hear this the more sense this makes.

    Coulda said it faster though.

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