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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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  • the answer is easy, willy wonka figured this out. exchange waves for particals. it would be alot more fun to play mmos

  • wait the audio track is probably fine . . . just having a classic problem on my system . . . fixed now

  • yeah i think the audio track is off. too bad bc this dude is SWEEEET!!1!!

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