TEDxCMU -- Mickey McManus -- Information Liquidity
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Uploaded by TEDxTalks on Apr 27, 2011
Mickey McManus presents us with an interesting problem. The explosion of technology has created vast complexities that we do not know how to deal with. However, biology and millions of years of evolution inherently has the tools to deal with these complexities. How can we use the tools we have in our bodies to shape the next stage in technological evolution?
Mickey McManus is the CEO of MAYA design, an ubiquitous computing firm in Pittsburgh. As President, CEO and Principal, Mickey leads a highly skilled, interdisciplinary team that creates innovative ways to integrate information and technology into satisfying user experiences.Mickey graduated with honors from the University of Illinois in Chicago, School of Art and Architecture with a BFA in industrial design and extended studies in communication design and mathematics. In 2005, Mickey spearheaded the launch of MAYA's Pervasive Computing practice, which focuses on ways to design information objects so that all sorts of data can flow easily among vastly distributed devices, many hidden in the environment. MAYA's work in pervasive computing has been featured in the Harvard Business Review and the Wall Street Journal. Mick's design awards include the 2005 Consumer Electronics Innovation Award, two Addy Awards for advertising and video production, the AIGA Communications Show Judge's Choice Award, SuperComm 2000 Best of Show in Design, and the Exhibitor Award for Best Conceptual Design. His articles and work have been published in Innovations, Graphis, and Space magazines.
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is there a demo video out there? I'm really interested
babonilla 8 months ago
Wait... What was that for a trick with these foils?
How did you do the photo-effect? Is it some after effect video editing? Crazy Stuff...
But I'm not so convinced of these u-forms. I mean, you can't put every information into a Key-Value-List. You would have to standardize everything. For example if you put "length = 4 meters" or "length = 4" and put the unit somewhere else...
And also there would be u-forms with different uids, which contains the same data.
Anyway, great presentation!!
UhloMuhlo 9 months ago
Wow. Is this talk from the future? I thought it was an amazingly presented insight on the relationship between nature and computing. But was there really no time to see the demo? I would have asked for a time extension there! Where can we see the demo?
tezzuya 9 months ago
Dang no demo...
purefx 10 months ago
@1p2o3i college. this was held at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh
chinkalicious329 10 months ago
@MayanMaya thank you so much... i was lucky enough to be there... Its amazing that you took so much trouble for the presentation aspect.. but then again, such a novel concept would not have been justified with anything less....
I am really looking forward to the dev in MAYA...
mordernduke 10 months ago
great presentation! thanks.
dambil3036 10 months ago
Brilliant person.
I must watch it over again to wire my brain around all of this
arlpainbringer 10 months ago
@MAYAnMAYA And who was the audience: college or high school students?
1p2o3i 10 months ago
@MAYAnMAYA Really nice presentation and video, Mickey. It's not my field so it never occured to me that we don't have a standard "container" to house all our digi-informational DNA and that is able to evolve with our needs. I thought, well, the data exists in Bits and Bytes and, like you said, we just copy what we deem important and store it on servers or personal disc storage.
Nice intro too; you actually had me fooled for a minute because of the already existing flexible foil computer screens.
1p2o3i 10 months ago