Unexisting notes, sorry… From Mieke Gerritzen‘s keynote .
Actually, I just posted this so that Anto can watch the video.
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Notes on the run of the talk by the cybernetician Kevin Warwick.
Just 2 words to say that this is the probably the craziest thing I have ever seen!
During the talk, I had the feeling I was witnessing the birth of Daleks…
Weird…
Won’t be attending this afternoon. Too much work waiting for me at the office. I’ll try and make it to the fondue though.
Paul Dourish (UC Irvine)
On interaction between ethnography and design.
(really experiencing trouble with wi-fi, firefox and wordpress 
)
In short: ethnography IS relevant for design.
Aboriginal navigation vs cartographic navigation relevant for our understanding of mobility.
The wi-fi here is definitely dead
Notes on the run…
Genevieve Bell is an anthropologist with a Ph.D. from Stanford. Why an anthropologist at Intel’s? Well… There are at least 30 of them there! Intel seems to want to understand what kind of a specie humans actually are.
“Technology changes faster than people do”
A few interesting figures:
- 45% of cellphone users in the UK lie about where they are
- 100% of online dating servicesin the US lie about themselves
- Men tell 20% more lies than women
- We tell somewhere btw 6-200 lies per day! (concealing misbehaviour, increasing popularity, keeping one’s social world ticking over)
We are entering “arms race of digital deception”
- Volker Sommer: self-deception is a part of survival
“secret” or sacred knowledge have deep history in many cultural, religious and political systems. Layers of knowledge – not everything should be known to everyone. Parallels with digital world are quite obvious: cultural ideals on the one hand (lying is bad) and cultural practices on the other.
Cites a research by Danah Boyd : a surprising % of myspaces users are over 100 (restricted access to 14 years and above)
About secrets and sacred, mentions postsecret.blogspot.com
=> Tensions between cultural practices and ideals persist around lies and secrets
=> Do the twin ideas of secrets & lies offer new ways to think about pricavy and security?
Brilliant talk, sorry I’m so lousy out taking notes…
Actually, it’s the same talk as he gave in Reboot in May. Still just as brilliant!
About the online social skills of kids, their parents aren’t even aware of.
The last renaissance was lead by a bunch of Scotts. The second renaissance is lead by people in this room
Don’t think. Try!
Notes on the run…
Steph shares her experience on going freelance and invites all the freelancers to Going Solo, her conference for freelances in March, in which she managed to invite Stowe Boyd as a speaker.
Good luck!
Jonathan Cabiria, whom I had the chance to meet at Lift last year, is a brilliant American psychologist and researcher. I quite enjoyed his talk since he brought social communities back to their evolutionary basics: “We come together to be safe”.
Jonathan and his team have been researching marginalised people and how virtual social networks could bring them back to socialisation in the real world (which was unexpected at the beginning of the study). Virtual worlds can actually help people to feel more real, more authentic and more commited to society.
What it means is, basically, is that “real” and virtual worlds should probably not be viewed as separate worlds. In both cases, we are just social animals.
Brilliant!
Notes on the run…
Pierre Bellanger, the founder of SkyRock (hence SkyBlogs), gave the second talk at Lift and share his vision of mobile social networking.
I’m definitely no good at blogging notes on the run, by the time I’ve created my post, fought with the wifi, my laptop, firefox and wordpress, read a couple of urgent e-mails, I’ve missed the whole introduction of the talk… Very interesting, nevertheless… The main point: “The future of social networking is mobile”, in short, your whole numerical identity and online existence online will depend on your cellphone (and on your telco operators?)
A few quotes for future reflexion:
Social Networks are to the Mail What the Search Engines are to the Web
The network changes us: Netamorphosis
The social network is the future of telecommunications
S.O.S for “Social OS”. Unfortunately, the acronym is already in use for another purpose.
Notes on the run…
Sci-fi author Bruce Sterling was in charge of the opening talk at Lift08. He wanted his keynote to be “punchy” and “focused”.
He did mentioned Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, the US economic depression and Al-Quaeda, the global warming (quote: “Global Warming is a Way of Life”) since he probably felt compelled to, given the talk was supposed to be a review of 2007 and a prospective review for 2008, but of course that’s not what he focused on.
Instead he developed what he considers to be the essential: Carla Sarkozy, the “Madame du Barry of the French political renaissance”. His prospective scenarios were quite funny, including “the First Beaver of France”.
His point was about publicity, power, politics and money and their relationships and about the impredictibility of things. Could have been brilliant, but honestly I was a little disapointed, the argument deserved a better backup.
Favourite quotes:
Carla Sarkorzy is a Black Swan
2008 will be a Crappy Year
Global Warming is a Way of Life
