"Post Digital was a suggestion that, maybe, we needed to get over that and start thinking about the next phase, the phase where it got integrated into the world. What will we do, I was asking, when we can take all this connectivity for granted? When it’s no longer special or interesting? What will we build then?"

"I call this technology Pictures Under Glass. Pictures Under Glass sacrifice all the tactile richness of working with our hands, offering instead a hokey visual facade....Pictures Under Glass is an interaction paradigm of permanent numbness. It's a Novocaine drip to the wrist. It denies our hands what they do best. And yet, it's the star player in every Vision Of The Future."

"Connected, in real time, in multiple dimensions, at an increasingly global scale, in matters large and small, with our permission, we will operate at a new level, and we won't cease surprising ourselves with impossible achievements."

"Only reacting to what's happening today puts us further behind as new changes come quicker and quicker. We need to look to the future. Yet we don't know exactly what will happen, so we can't be future proof. But we can be future friendly."

"In today's incredibly exciting yet overwhelming world of connected digital devices, these are the truths we hold to be self-evident:"

"...the level of pay inequality was at a cooler 38, rather than where it is today, a hotter 46."

"From obesity to chronique fatigue syndrome, jihadism to urban ennui, the costs of civilization are becoming ever more apparent. Spencer Wells explores adapting to a world where accelerating change is the new status quo." from Seed.

"...it’s clear that serious cognitive advantages accrue to those who are best at thinking alongside machines." from Wired.

From non-sentient meat to salt-water algae.

the next generation of interactive textbooks.

"A lot of interesting new discoveries in evolutionary biology, neuroscience, child development, anthropology and more suggest that human nature might not be what Enlightenment philosophers suggested." from New Scientist.

Google, copyright, and our future. by Lawrence Lessig in The New Republic.

What should libraries do to become relevant in the digital age? from seth godin's blog.

The Arena for Accountable Predictions. The purpose of Long Bets is to improve long–term thinking. Long Bets is a public arena for enjoyably competitive predictions, of interest to society, with philanthropic money at stake.

In less than 20 years, the Internet has transformed the way we shop, socialize, and communicate. What’s next? from McKinsey & Company.

"I don’t know about you, but a future without URLs and without the infinite organicity of the web frightens me."

"Basically, the only thing that matters in terms of consistency going forward is consistency of the quality of user experience."

Did you know the first “brain-tweet” was sent out this year? How about that we may someday be customizing windshields with widgets?

from TED.com

Forget squeezing millions from a few megahits at the top of the charts. The future of entertainment is in the millions of niche markets at the shallow end of the bitstream. from wired.

Open Education, the Long Tail, and Learning 2.0 [pdf]

or How traditional businesses who have moved to the web regularly undervalue their front-end web developers, and are worse off because of that

Carfree Cities proposes a delightful solution to the vexing problem of urban automobiles.

one of the core skills for a new generation of web workers will be data analysis.

The irony of interaction design is that despite its huge ideas, its ultimate goal is to be undetectable. from the new york review of ideas.

a look into the future that never was.

process to make higher learning more agile, adaptive and imaginative. from nyt.

the emerging news ecosystem. by steven johnson.

from the Reith Lectures 2005, BBC Radio 4.

Web 2.0 is damaging to the Web.

as part of the mozilla lab’s concept series.

five techniques. from smashing magazine.

a properly extensible solution that provides backward compatibility and sufficient flexibility. from a list apart.

structured data coupled with capable display primitives. from sitepoint.

white-space frequencies and cognitive radio.

Logical and precise, left-brain thinking gave us the Information Age. Now comes the Conceptual Age - ruled by artistry, empathy, and emotion.