[LINK] The Future is Messy

[Tom Worthington]

Greeting from the Innovative Ideas Forum 2010 at the National Library of 
Australia in Canberra: 
<http://www.nla.gov.au/initiatives/meetings/innovative-ideas-forum/2010/>.

The first speaker is Dr Genevieve Bell, Intel Fellow, Digital Home Group 
Director, User Experience Group, Intel Corporation, talking about 
technology and the ways people use it in their everyday lives.

Genevieve is originally from Canberra and gave an entertaining insight 
as to how culture and technology interact. One insight was that the 
people in the growth areas for Internet use in Asia live much more 
densely and that English was not longer the dominant language of the 
Internet. Western, and particularly American, ideas of how information 
is organised, meaning is expressed will not necessarily continue to 
dominate the Internet.

Genevieve argued that old forms of media, such as television, will live 
on. Rather than television being subsumed as a VOD service, TV is 
influencing the design of computers and the Internet. It would be 
interesting to see how this apply to the book.

The room is packed with about 400 people, about one quarter of who I 
know by sight from other e-events. The organisers encourage live 
blogging (tag: iif2010) and twittering (#iif2010) from the event, making 
for a lively discussion. You can read my notes from last year .

More at: <http://www.tomw.net.au/blog/2010/04/future-is-messy.html>.


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