Zittrain’s Foundational Myth of the Open Internet :: net critique by Geert Lovink
october 2008 by rybesh
How can we raise, and organize a new generation of technology-aware research that has the guts, and the creativity, to design a comprehensive field of critical concepts that can be implemented into code? We have to stop understanding the Internet, and start to shape it.
internet
critique
manifesto
research
future
ideology
libertarianism
liberalism
Uncategorized
october 2008 by rybesh
the next big plateau | varnelis.net
august 2008 by rybesh
...my sense is that now, of all times in recent history, developing new technologies is a backwards move. The real developments are going to be in the way that society changes—in terms of finance, sexuality, politics, urbanism and so on...
technology
society
change
future
opinion
locative
mobile
internet
iphone
locative_media
august 2008 by rybesh
Web of Fate | Share your future
july 2008 by rybesh
Web of Fate is a social experiment that harnesses the collective intelligence of the web to visualize and uncover hidden relationships among future and historical events.
datamining
forecasting
future
collaboration
nlp
events
extraction
semweb
ontology
prediction
july 2008 by rybesh
the grand inquisitor - five part web series
january 2008 by rybesh
Updating Dostoevsky’s mystical fable to a future, Fox network style reality. Public Eye Films partnered with Cruxy.com to expand the possibilities for online distribution and to create new user interfaces for hyperlinked entertainment.
video
narrative
interface
future
religion
flash
january 2008 by rybesh
BBC NEWS | Technology | The Tech Lab: Charles Stross
july 2007 by rybesh
In the long term, almost all human experiences will be recorded. And in the very long term, they'll be a gold mine for historians.
archivingthepresent
history
privacy
scifi
future
july 2007 by rybesh
gladwell.com: The Perfect and the Good
november 2006 by rybesh
...one of the most important changes we're going to see in lots of professions over the next few years is the emergence of tools that close the gap between the middle and the top--that allow the decision-maker who is merely competent to avoid his errors a
machinelearning
decisionmaking
future
ideas
tools
expertise
november 2006 by rybesh
The Sudden Stardom of the Third-World City
april 2006 by rybesh
If, for the better part of the 20th century, it was New York and its glistening imitations that symbolised the future, it is now the stacked-up, sprawling, impromptu city-countries of the third world.
urban
aesthetics
development
future
ideas
image
april 2006 by rybesh
Bruce Sterling: Delete our cultural heritage?
march 2006 by rybesh
The world suffers a silent phenomenon of "digital decay". This quirky realm is mostly populated by librarians, archivists and museum curators, plus the occasional anxious scientist and panicky megacorporate record clerk.
digital
media
decay
archives
library
future
ideas
culture
march 2006 by rybesh
Morph: WELCOME, PEOPLERAZZI
february 2006 by rybesh
Camera phones in the grip of the average person (billions of them) will leave no part of the earth undiscovered - and, with luck, entirely new forms of entertainment and enlightenment for all of us to watch and experience.
mobile
image
news
future
hype
entertainment
february 2006 by rybesh
Lucas Gonze: The War On Text
november 2005 by rybesh
Listening and looking are our most natural form of communication. As the internet becomes capable of running mainly on non-text forms like audio, video, and still pictures, text will be relegated to the same snooty ghetto online as it is offline.
audio
video
web
interface
ideas
future
text
semiotics
image
communication
november 2005 by rybesh
Synapse: The future of news - The Media Center @ API
october 2005 by rybesh
Media, Technology and Society: a multi-disciplinary research project on the media landscape conducted for professionals engaged in strategies, research, thinking, education, policy and philanthropy related to the future of journalism and media.
future
journalism
media
news
research
technology
social
october 2005 by rybesh
The Echo Nest
september 2005 by rybesh
Brian Whitman's new "future music" startup.
music
ai
commercial
future
boston
mit
stealth
september 2005 by rybesh
Future Mobile Photography Workshop @ HIIT
august 2005 by rybesh
A workshop under the theme of mobile photography - how camera phones have changed people's photography habits and created new social uses for the device as well as business, and now that this is happening what will the future look like.
mobile
image
technology
research
future
ideas
august 2005 by rybesh
The BBC’s Spoken Word Project and Implications for Video
august 2005 by rybesh
Key issues for spoken word are: standardised repositories, supporting streaming, pointed to by blogs/wikis/etc, pointed to by software for annotation/quotation/reference, formation of secondary repositories of specialist metadata and user-metadata.
audio
video
annotation
social
metadata
ideas
future
blog
wiki
msmdx
august 2005 by rybesh
Berkeley Conference: Online Video and the Future of Television
july 2005 by rybesh
This one-day conference brings together archivists, educators, technologists, entrepreneurs, producers, legal experts, and investors to explore the enormous promise offered by the availability of online video and television content.
tv
future
ideas
conference
berkeley
unmediated
web
video
july 2005 by rybesh
Foreign Affairs - Down to the Wire - Thomas Bleha
june 2005 by rybesh
Once a leader in Internet innovation, the United States has fallen far behind Japan and other Asian states in deploying broadband and the latest mobile-phone technology. This lag will cost it dearly.
asia
economics
future
globalization
internet
japan
networking
policy
technology
usa
wireless
june 2005 by rybesh
Virginia Postrel: The Future and Its Enemies
june 2005 by rybesh
In The Future and Its Enemies, Virginia Postrel describes a new way of thinking called dynamism...
books
1998
urn:asin:0684827603
wishlist
business
economics
forecasting
future
politics
qualityoflife
socialaspects
socialchange
socialscience
sociology
creative
june 2005 by rybesh
Janet H. Murray: Hamlet on the Holodeck
june 2005 by rybesh
This book came highly recommended to me...
books
1998
urn:asin:0262631873
wishlist
computers
future
interactive
literature
narration
virtualreality
culture
art
june 2005 by rybesh
3.07: Intellectual Value
april 2005 by rybesh
Value shifts from the transformation of bits rather than bits themselves, to services, to the selection of content, to the presence of other people, and to the assurance of authenticity - reliable information about sources of bits and their future flows.
commercial
strategy
future
ideas
media
music
p2p
economics
april 2005 by rybesh
Digital Interactive TV and Metadata
april 2005 by rybesh
Web site accompanying the book. Lecture notes, teaching materials, and info about standards for digital television.
tv
metadata
research
future
april 2005 by rybesh
SSRN-Rewinding Sony: The Evolving Product, Phoning Home and the Duty of Ongoing Design by Randal Picker
april 2005 by rybesh
Networked products evolve and we are now going to frame what ongoing design obligations should exist with regard to these networked products.
policy
networking
design
ideas
future
april 2005 by rybesh
The Long Tail: Only you can save television
march 2005 by rybesh
The TV industry has the highest ratio of produced content to available content, making it ripe for "long tail" business models.
tv
future
ideas
march 2005 by rybesh
An alternate history of podcasting
february 2005 by rybesh
In five years, the things that defined podcasting in 2004 will be forgotten. What will remain are the things that the first generation took for granted and yet pioneered: URLs, open wrapper formats, open protocols, open media formats, and open licensing.
ideas
future
multimedia
blog
web
standards
msmdx
february 2005 by rybesh
The Digital Media Manifesto
january 2005 by rybesh
The Digital Media Manifesto identifies the need for coordinated policy and technical actions needed to achieve this fuller realisation of Digital Media.
future
ideas
media
january 2005 by rybesh
Riding the Media Bits
january 2005 by rybesh
A practical guide to digital convergence.
ideas
future
mpeg-7
media
convergence
mpeg-4
january 2005 by rybesh
Dojo Toolkit
january 2005 by rybesh
Dojo is an Open Source effort by an invited set of contributors to create a UI toolkit that allows a larger number of web application authors to easily use the rich capabilities of modern browsers.
web
code
tools
future
interface
css
javascript
xml
january 2005 by rybesh
Crystal Ball Redux: Looking Back on Shore's 2004 Forecast - and Peeking at 2005
january 2005 by rybesh
Facilitating the collection, distribution and linking of content from individuals and institutions and providing content through any and all channels - especially those that build upon the search and aggregation tools which enable users to create value.
ideas
future
blog
msmdx
january 2005 by rybesh
Universal Object Descriptor (Format D)
october 2004 by rybesh
A visualization of what a Nike T-shirt tag may look like in the future.
design
future
ideas
metadata
october 2004 by rybesh
Dumbing Down Smart Objects
october 2004 by rybesh
More on spimes from Bruce Sterling.
design
future
ideas
metadata
web
october 2004 by rybesh
Tools for Conviviality
october 2004 by rybesh
Alternative tools for mass education... are replacing traditional school systems. They are more effective in the conditioning of job-holders and consumers, more attractive for the management of societies, and destructive of fundamental values.
education
future
ideas
tools
collaboration
october 2004 by rybesh
HIIT Research: Media Convergence
october 2004 by rybesh
The Media Convergence research theme studies the entire production, distribution, and use process of future digital media services from contents production to service delivery through various channels such as mobile terminals, digital TV, or the Internet.
academia
dam
delivery
future
media
research
semweb
convergence
msmdx
october 2004 by rybesh
Douglas Galbi's Communications Industry Analysis and Policy Page
october 2004 by rybesh
New, different, and interesting ideas, data, and analysis relating to communications policy, from an economist at the FCC.
commercial
future
ideas
media
policy
october 2004 by rybesh
When Blobjects Rule the Earth
september 2004 by rybesh
Today, most consumers know little or nothing about their possessions. A Spime, by contrast, is an object that can link to and swiftly reveal most everything about itself.
design
future
ideas
metadata
web
september 2004 by rybesh
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