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PREAMBULE This trend book about digital behaviours has emerged from presonnal thinking, based on reading, observations and findings on the web during the past year.
This trend book aims to identify, explain and illustrate the main trends that are shaping the world of digital behaviours.
In this exercice, I have limited myself to the perimeter of behaviours I know about, i.e. those happening in the western countries.
Beside the fact that these trends are here illustrated within the context of digital behaviours, they are not restricted to this context.
USA's consumption footprint
is 12.2 ha/person, In Ethiopia the
figure is 2ha
source : WWF UK
Between 1970 and 2002 forest cover has dwindled
by 12%
source : The Guardians
16 119
endangered species in 2006
source : IUCN
End of oil ressources
around 2050
source : Terresacree.org
A finite world
A finite world
More than the physical limits of the globe, instantaneous communication provides a panoptic view of the world and reveals the boundaries.
« Speed is the greatest factor of emprisonment. » P. Virilio
Data is at the core
Google alone has already indexed
over 8 billion pages and
over10 million books and add 1,5 to 2 millions new publications
each year.
Within our finite sphere, the digital revolution, that has started 20
years ago, has rapidly increased
inter-connections and inter-dependencies
between actors and contributes to develop an immaterial economy.
Rather than disqualifying the capitalist system, the sub-prime crisis is
more relevant as a symbol of the
effects of the growing immaterial economy
over reality.
Data is at the core
The ongoing
indexation of existing knowledges and objects increases even
more the weight of data and their effects over reality.
« These new technologies try to make virtual reality more powerful than actual reality, which is the true accident. The day when virtual reality becomes more powerful than reality will be the day of the big accident. Mankind never experienced such an extraordinary accident. » P. Virilio
Data is at the core
One of the main outcome of the last crisis is a
collective understanding that our environment
is escaping us.
«Except scientific people, nobody really
understand the objects we use ; (...) we just ‘count’ on
them. On the other side, the savage knows incomparably
better his own tools.» M. Weber about
‘disenchantment’, In Politic as a vocation
Renchanted matter
and this almost for free for the
end user.
Even if the ongoing digital
indexation clearly continues the
disenchantment of the world, data have
great values.
Data are
potentially unalterable
accessible from
everywhere
at any time
Material
Magical powers
Vaudoo powers
Spiritual effects
Other beliefs
MATTER principle of disenchantment
...
Services
Know-ledge
Identity
Data
principle of re-enchantment MATTER
And matter remains the body of interaction
with data
Data are the core of an infinite added
value
So, if the world is running out
of raw matter
VISION : Matter is tangible data.MISSION : In a world animated by data,
data will be visible by eyes and editable by hands.
BLACK OUT
Dwellers’ guide
IMMUNITY GOODS Ghost in a wall
SMALL PRODUCERS inc. Data body language
Invisible man’sparadoxRaw charm ∞1
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Matter
Vision of apocalypse
Theory of western civilisations’ collapse
Fear of a multipolar world
Major economic system failure«We are the collateral victims
of the progress.» P. Virilio
Newspaper blackout
Since the 2008 economical crisis, the capitalist model has lost part of its legitimacy.While western civilisation is as fragile as an empty shell, some fears the accident.
is young Alice without her connectionWho
As people’s life record moves now online, the computer screen has become the Alice’s mirror.A potential black out would make anyone amnesic, with no access to his/her memory.
cannot be foreseen is the black out Poetry is « what happened »
«Accident» means «what is coming», and there is no way to prevent things of coming.To avoid immaterial memories to be cutted off, we need tracks of events in shape-memory material.
Plaid memoire
Imagine a peripheric device connected to your computer that would print out your digital life biorythm and produce a piece of cloth
from which to read your personal history as you would browse a photo album or a biography.
Homeland purity Holy protection
In the western world, geopolitical and sanitarian threats are in everyone’s mind. Consumption has become a weapon to lead a holy patriotic fight.
Heroic story Daily life superpower
While digital world grows, frontiers between fiction and reality blurs each day a bit more. Thus, eachone seeks to build oneself ’s self defense.
Immunity prothesis ADN compatible goods
When environment becomes too complex to remain safe, stakes are to avoid what may harm one’s self. In other words, the stake is now to extand one’s immune system to identify what ensure one’s identity.
Scanning second skin
Imagine a device as a prosthesis that knows you and scans the goods that surround you, in order to help you make the right choice
according to your immune system, your allergies, your ideological engagement, your feelings of the day, ...
City pulse Living signal
More than half of the world population now lives in condensed urban environment.Visualizing the activity of city dwellers in live becomes a key issue to live in the real time city.
Moving perspectiveUrban specimen
One’s moves, one’s actions, one’s interactions feeds a live and collective database about trafic.But without a proper interface, these cities of data remain only stories, invisible cities.
Figurative bodies Sensitive cities
For a city to be smart, all citizens ought to be taken into account as an agent of the system.The stake of 5th screen is to make city pulse tangible on its walls, readable and editable by itself.
Urban semaphore
Imagine to be able to interact with the walls, to shape the urban public space. Not like an architect or a designer who would create something new and specific. But like the wind blows into the leaves
of a tree, your presence, your movements, your speed or the amount of data you carry with you would blow onto the façades of
the city and become one of the ghost of the city.
Droit à l’oubli
Privacy paradox
«Don’t tag me in this photo»
Multi-identity
Transparency
Ubiquity
Invisibility
Virtual worlds addiction
Personal data
Belief of invisibility Facts of exposureWhere :
The ideology of online worlds is to offer everyone the gifts of ubiquity and invisibility.But the cost of ubiquity is the sell of one’s personnal informations.
Self branding Online deathWho :
Immaterial informations now ought to be protected by anonymity, as much as real identities would.But erasing one’s online private information equals to perform an amputation of one’s personal history.
More than one identity MaskWhat :
In a self-branding attitude, each footprint one may leave online becomes a chapter of a biography.More than being invisible again, heteronomity is the key to personal identity management.
Coïdentity
Imagine a support like a business, that would allow you to introduce yourself through your upt-to-date Facebook profile, or your Likedin
profile, or any of your virtual identities made tangible.
Fantasy of telepathy and telekinesis remains the quest of the sixth sens for communication. But complex communication systems still fail to carry real emotions and feelings.
In the immaterial economy world, a thing is valued by the amount of times it has been shared.Crafted goods gain value because they cannot be reproduced & keep emotional bounds to their origin.
Sometimes, the smell of a perfum may provoke more emotional bounding than a phone call.Like in vaudoo incantations, any object may become a direct polysensorial remote communication tool.
Vaudoo relique
Imagine an altar on wich would be displayed things or stuffs that relatives would have offered to you. And imagine that by holding anyone tight or talk or carry, you would be able to share these
actions with the owner of the puppet.
Bands funded by their fans
Open source platforms
Time square = art square
Peer to peer lending
Together we can
Flash mob Vs Fab lab
At the age of service, workers owns their production tools and have access to distribution channels. A new class of empowered citizen emerges, the producers class.
But the degre of complexity of one’s personnal production is limited by one’s mastered competences.Realizing more complex and rich features requires to gather and extend the collective ABC of 2.0.
After production & distribution, the participative economy urges the system to rethink property rights.Collective will goes beyond local and leads to find new standards for an open economy.
Crumbs economy
Imagine a place where neighbours of the world village could purchase things buy bartering to each other social units. It would
mean for instance that you could buy bread with your cell phone in return of renting minutes of your car; and a month of french bread
would mean 200 km of your car for your baker.
Pervasive connection
6th sense
Wifi cultureTactile dimension
Intuitive movement interaction
Body-data interaction
Casual gaming business grows, with new older customers and new learning/teaching practices.Quality of game is less connected to the qualitative immersive 3D than to the social interactions.
There is no more need to learn user interfaces builded upon the standards designed 30 years ago.Data now react to our own body movements instead of waiting to be activated through keyboard.
Soon, online gaming will even be freed from consoles, through direct interaction between players.After the playstation code, here comes the data body language; gestures are new keys.
Life blog choreography
Imagine than any of your movements may update your status online, or be a mean to play with a remote friends somewhere else.
In a finite globe, traveling means looking for heterotopies ; it is first of all a state of mind.In a world full of stuffs and people, any of them is a potential ressource for the next move.
As soon as things are connected, nothing remains unreachable and everywhere becomes « inside ».Exotism relies less on a geographical distance than on the remoteness from one’s personal routines.
In a finite world, travelers are not explorers anymore, but dwellers on the move looking for stories.The world is a ruin, full of meanings and histories, that can be decoded like a record.
Tales of thing
Imagine a service attaching stories to objects, landmarks or monuments with RFiD tags. Traveling at home or abroad with your phone would allow you to read such stories on the go. Or even to
leave your own story edited in a real printed out tag.
Matter is tangible data
BLACK OUT
Dwellers’ guide
IMMUNITY GOODS Ghost in a wall
SMALL PRODUCERS inc. Data body language
Invisible man’sparadoxRaw charm
Thank you.Marc Chataigner - http://flavorsme.com/marcchataigner