Highlights from SXSW 2014
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- interaction art in public spaces -
- fighting for online privacy -
- digital divide -
- failure is the key to creativity -
recurring themes
- interaction art in public spaces -
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an efficient future (but what about a human one?)
Microsoft’s Vision of the Future (2011)
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a playful future
Hello Lamp Post (winner of Watershed’s 2013 Playable Cities Award)by PAN Studios
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reimagining neighborhoods
Color Me TimbersInteractive Christmas Lights
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interactive interventions for public spaces
21 Balançoires (21 Swings)Daily Tous Les Jours
Bring magic. Make places. Enable connections.Melissa Mongiat & Mouna Andraos
(Daily Tous Les Jours)
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interactive interventions for public spaces
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- fighting for online privacy -
Fight for your privacy or you’ll lose it.
Jared Cohen & Eric Schmidt (Google Ideas, authors of “A New Digital Age”)
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Is the ‘free’ internet dying?Michael Maness (VP, Knight Foundation)
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The internet will become cable unless we doing
something about it.Tim Wu (Media Historian at Columbia University)
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We need to be vigilant.Sue Gardner (Director of Wikimedia Foundation)
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The NSA is setting fire to the future of the internet.
Edward Snowden
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The tools [we use] are made by ad companies, they will not
be optimized for privacy.Christopher Soghoian (ACLU’s principal technologist)
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- digital divide -
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It is dangerously destabilizing tohave half the world on the
cutting edge of technology while the other half struggles on the bare
edge of survival.Bill Clinton
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- digital divide -
If it works in Africa, it will work anywhere.
Reg Orton (CTO BRCK)
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- digital divide -
People who have access will have more advantages.
Beyond Connectivity: Sharing News Without the Web
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- failure is the key to creativity -
- failure is the key to creativity -
Think process, not product.Austin Kleon (Author)
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We need to learn to design by making.
Tim Brown (CEO of IDEO)
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Failure is a good wayto learn facts.
Joi Ito (Director of MIT Media Lab)
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We need to explore and make mistakes to learn.
Neil Degrasse Tyson
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How do we capture ‘not-knowing’?Harper Reed
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We don’t stand by our results. We stand by our methodology.
Adam Savage
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Fail early, fail often, fail hard.Bruce Sterling
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I need better tools.Stephen Wolfram
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We had never created a visualization that scared
us before.Fernanda Viégas (Research Scientist, Google)
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We all have to learn something about bioengineering because it’s going to be in our face very soon.
Joi Ito (MIT Media Lab)
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We all have to learn something about bioengineering because it’s going to be in our face very soon.
Joi Ito (MIT Media Lab)
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I’m not interested in changing your mind.
I want to inflict mine on you.Cody Wilson (Director, Defense Distributed/DEFCAD)
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When you’re connected all the time you need passion, networks,
and the ability to learn.Joi Ito (MIT Media Lab) on the new paradigm for education
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People are giving up part of a physical experience to add it
to their digital persona.
Patrick Miller (Deeplocal)
Is the digital less real because we can curate and augment it to
be what we want it to be?
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What’s the ‘tofu’ word for cricket flour?
Megan Miller (founder, Bitty Foods)
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