lawsofmedia

Presentation: Design for an Augment Reality world

For posterity here is the slideshare version of my Augmented Reality talk, which I presented for the first time at Refresh Events in Toronto. As a first cut, this presentation represented more of a shotgun scattershot rather than a linearly coherent narrative of the various thoughts on this topic currently spinning in my head my [...]

The future is here, it’s just not evenly distributed yet

I love that little inventions like the internets were invented nearly 30 years ago and yet we’re still figuring out, and still will continue to figure out wonderful things to do with them.
The distribution is here, the future just isn’t evenly invented yet
If the future is distribution, are we here yet?
The future is like a [...]

The Flavour of Cities – My deck from OpenCities

UPDATE: oh and my speaker notes are here on the slideshare page which might explain things a *little* more clearly.
A great commentary by Edward on the discussion that followed (thanks!):
“At the final session, insulated by a Creemore, it was interesting to think of as flavour as taste: in the look and feel and design and [...]

How Times Change (1908)

Technology, like any media, moves through society like a wave function. Starting with a ripple before ultimately cresting.
[Detail from a larger image. From Shorpy.com, possibly the best website on the internet.]