30 Years Of Tech

And we stay with TED and with MIT. Nicholas Negroponte takes us 30 years back in tech. A 30-year history of the future.

MIT Media Lab founder Nicholas Negroponte takes you on a journey through the last 30 years of tech. The consummate predictor highlights interfaces and innovations he foresaw in the 1970s and 1980s that were scoffed at then but are ubiquitous today. And he leaves you with one last (absurd? brilliant?) prediction for the coming 30 years.

Become A Now-ist

Forget predicting the future, become a now-ist if you want to innovate says Joi Ito. Interesting TED talk.

“Remember before the internet?” asks Joi Ito. “Remember when people used to try to predict the future?” In this engaging talk, the head of the MIT Media Lab skips the future predictions and instead shares a new approach to creating in the moment: building quickly and improving constantly, without waiting for permission or for proof that you have the right idea. This kind of bottom-up innovation is seen in the most fascinating, futuristic projects emerging today, and it starts, he says, with being open and alert to what’s going on around you right now. Don’t be a futurist, he suggests: be a now-ist.

Bring Furniture To Life

Transform: take static furniture a step further, bring it to life. Let it react on your energy. MIT rocks!

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TRANSFORM: Behind the Scenes from Tangible Media Group on Vimeo.

The Future Of Computing Is Tactile

Wow, a display you can reach through. Does this mean I can touch, shake hands with a person at the other side of the world? I guess it does. Very interesting but in some way I find it a bit creepy. Probably have to get used to it. Can you imagine what this means for the porn industry? It's developed by the Tangible Media Group, part of MIT Lab. It's called inFORM, a Dynamic Shape Display that can render 3D content physically.

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inFORM - Interacting With a Dynamic Shape Display from Tangible Media Group on Vimeo.

M-Blocks

Such a coincidence. Yesterday I was talking with a friend who had the idea of a kind of lego blocks to create furniture with. If you have blocks left they are easy to store. Minimalistic design et cetera. Suddenly he said that it would be nice to have an app on your mobile phone, a catalogue, pick a chair, table, cupboard, hit the button and here we go, the blocks will create the furniture themselves. Well, it exists already. The M-Blocks, developed by the MIT.

M-Blocks are modular blocks. Operated via WiFi. Are self assembling.

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Dan Pink 'The Surprising Truth Of What Motivates Us'

The Surprising Truth of What Motivates Us by Dan Pink from Clear Thinking on Vimeo.