Our New Super Powers

Iron Man from Marvel Comics

Our New Super PowersThe evolving relationship between people and technology

Mark Rolston, Chief Creative O!cer

Wednesday, November 10, 2010

what why

our devices our selves


but first,

my predictions for the future of mobile


Next year’s device will be better, smaller, sometimes bigger, there will be more apps, carriers will still be struggling to keep up and too many minor variations on the same theme will be fighting for market share.

that’s it.


mobile now comes in many shapes and sizes

17” 3.5”..... 2”?


mobile’s value to us continues to expand

music player telephone

camera

alarm clock

televisionnewspaper

calculator

white pages

assistant

wallet

web browser

video cameragame box


markets collide...

creating“new”


mobile = computing

(computers, just, you know, mobile)


the laptop was the gateway drug


Tron, 1982this is the new crack.


however....

the next big thing in computing is not a thing...


the purpose of

a computer is

to help you do

something else”Mark Weiser

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHlN21ebeak

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHlN21ebeak

so if it’s not a thing, then what is it?


well, there are a few

emerging drivers:

our bodies,

our spaces,

and the cloud


first,

the human body


“Borgs” outside the MIT, circa 1995

early pioneers


Google Latitude | www.google.com/latitude

there are plenty of innocuous examples


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and plenty ofradical leaps in the experimental stage

Laboratory experiment testing rabbits with contact lense mounted displays


frog design Dattoos Concept

Twinkle

...and even more concepts


http://unlogo.org

http://unlogo.org

implantable electronics


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Lyric Hearing | www.lyrichearing.com


frog design, e-monitors, 2009


Nintendo Wii | www.wii.com


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Timo Arnall, 2008 | www.nearfield.org


we are becoming the computer


second,

the space around us


Fluid Interfaces Group LuminAR

the real world is the new touchscreen


twinkle

Twinkle


http://unlogo.org

http://unlogo.org

Microsoft Kinect


life becomes just another level in a videogame

EpicMIX


http://unlogo.org

http://unlogo.org

we can use technology to

create our own personal reality

http://unlogo.org


http://unlogo.org

http://unlogo.org

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where does it end?

Clip by Keiichi Matsuda


third,

compute and the cloud


client

compute

cloud

connect


the map will outgrow the territory


everyone, everything, and everywhere become part of the network


RUG

Matsushita Electric Carpet


umbrella


household items

personal electronics

personal healthcare

hospital equipment

sports equipment

furniture

professional instruments

tools

food packaging

shipping packaging

clothes

architecture

transportation

public spaces

o!ces

our desks

our shoes

our cars

our stu!

our appliances

our underwear

our children’s toys

in the packaged food we buy

on the factory floor

at the watercooler

along the highway

watching

listening

measuring

calculatingreporting

recording

sampling


Photo: Jan Chipchase


to what end?


“knowledge is power”sir francis bacon


super powers


“I can see through satellites now”Warren Ellis & Adi Granov, Iron Man, 2008


- situational awareness- extending our senses - throwing our senses- finding- knowing- remembering- thinking (correlate, calculate, etc)

the extension of the self


super powers

extend our

senses

extend our self be anywhere

see and hear more

...and in new

dimensions

(time, place, data, etc)


people, places, and things


people


META-ME

people

Actual Me Virtual Me

Body MeFinancial Me


conversation in the third person

video of video game in/out of third person

or TheSims game pic

We can step outside of ourselves


be anyone


62Microsoft Sensecam

the end of forgetting


places


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“being there”


65Creating a sense of place


we can see and talk to anyone, anywhere


“if you (virtually) build it they will (virtually) come”


Google Street View for the o!ce


experience anywhere


any dimension of anywhere


things


Bruce Sterling.

An object that can be tracked through space and time throughout the lifetime of the object.

spime


anything


anything (anywhere!)


anything


our super powers come from this emerging infrastructure

our sensesourselves

and thingsour environment


our sensesourselves

and thingsour environment

and everyone else

we share it with


we are no longer just ourselves


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the number of ways we can connect has grownexploded


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