I was invited to present to a small public group last month on Media Futures up in the Northern Territory here in Australia – this followed an ABC only presentation. I generally don’t do the Futurist thing, I feel...
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Originally published Oct 2011 in Wired Magazine ‘Change Accelerators’ by Gary Hayes 1...
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I promised quite a few folk to provide a walk-through of my short 35 minute presentation at the...
Read MoreI find this really interesting and a portent of the future. I am sure you remember the context to the films Bladerunner, chasing down sneeky renegade bots. Then there was AI with its ‘Flesh Fair’, (humans destroying...
Read MoreI have been in a philosophical, darkish corner the last few days. Things happen. In a related respite I remembered one the first interactive services I produced at the BBC – a broadband PC & connected CD service (current...
Read MoreThere comes a time for all of us when through experience one can very accurately predict the effect produced by an action well in advance of it happening. So it is with some horror that I watch the development towards a global...
Read MoreMore complex personalized media experiences start to take into account time and place. For example – you prefer certain types of content on the move so all your MP3’s collected by various agents end up automatically on the portable player – again with you opt in and then without your intervention.
Read MoreFindability is at the center of a quiet revolution that’s changing who we
trust, how we work, where we go, and what we want. In the information age, transmedia information literacy is a core life skill.
“It’s not up to Google or anyone other than the authors, the rightful owners of these copyrights, to decide whether and how their works will be copied.” In reference to the latest news of Authors suing Google I...
Read MoreWe all ‘get’ this principle but why is there still some resistance? People love TiVo for this and other reasons, we like individualized news and we find music, films and books in a far more compelling way on Amazon. In fact serendipity comes from less choice not more.
Read MoreSo this is the future heh. Google Grids, Newsbotsters and globally controlled and (moderated?) customized news ? EPIC produces a custom contents package for each user, using his choices, his consumption habits, his interests,...
Read MoreLATEST: Dutch Treat: Personal Database – 07:36 AM Sep. 15, 2005 PT The Dutch government will begin tracking every citizen from cradle to grave in a single database, opening a personal electronic dossier for every child at...
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