SxSW Day 5
My sessions todaya are all about where the virtual world meets the real world. I’m looking forward to them.
Scary how easy it is now to id you from a photo, gather public information, then statistically infer other information about you
The economics of privacy
recent research
Enchanting objects:
Omniscience
Telepathy
Protection
Immortality communication between devices
Teleportation of information, ambient objects
Expression
- make it very, very, very easy to set up and use
Enchanted Objects Sifteo
Romotive
A brief rant on the future of interactive design
Parsing Reality
Sphero
Romotive
The Tap Lab
Omnipresent: where the virtual meets the real world
augmented reality for public spaces
SxSW Day 4
Wolfram, A New Kind of Science, Wolfram Alpha
Wolfram Language is to become available for using Wolfram through the cloud or iOS later this year.
Wolfram is setting up a data science class, math classes to follow.
A robot in your pocket and the SRI talks on AI said the same thing
Cheap sensors == lots of data -> needs good software
Uncorrelated data may be correlated in large quantities.
Machine learning accuracy needs vary by system – email spam needs to be very accurate, picking a restaurant, not so much.
Human curated data- through social networks
Lots of user data that we’re not yet using – use it to personalize the app
Needs to figure out what user wants and to learn
Go wide and shallow, or deep and narrow
Support hackers
DEFCAD
3D printing gunmaker forms company
If we ban the blueprints for gun parts are we banning gun manufacturing or information? What’s next? Physics books?
New trade show trend – apps and software for hiding your data while online or smart phone.
SxSW Day 3
The trade show opened. Most was the same as last year, social media networks, new blogging software, cloud storage, various enticements to let companies collect data about you.
Great ways to catch geeks attention at a trade show: put out a free box of cables or spin a disco ball. :p
Links to dig into from Behavior Change by Chris Readon
Persuasion API
Architectures
Dan Ariely
BJ Fogg
6 Principles of Influence
Persuasion Profiling
The making of DOOM was a great talk, it reminded me of the need to push the edges of the technology.
Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture
DOOM World
DOOM Bible
I didn’t get to attend this talk but I’ll be getting the book
Fake it Your Guide to Digital Defense
I heard Nate Silver, fascinating ideas but like his book scarce on details
SxSW Day 2
No photos today, it was back to back sessions all day
First up was green tech about clean technology is failing to capture the public’s imagination. The talk was meh, but the company sounds interesting Green Tech. The speaker did make an interesting comment about memes: they must have a pattern you can join in and adapt.
Beyond Mobile was an amazing talk with Josh Clark Global Moxie. The good news is I’m working on the same stuff as everyone else so I’m on the right track, the bad news is everyone else is working on it too.
Beyond Mobile
Leap Motion looks amazing, I was very impressed with the two founders. I’m signing up for the dev program as soon as I get back home and settled.
Elon Musk spoke about reusable rockets, green houses on Mars and last week’s Dragon issues with the solar panels and thrusters. If you get a chance to hear him talk you should.
I also heard about research that is using electric signals to give you a sense of touch and lots of ways the researcher is planning to use this technology. It looks easy enough to do at home Revel(paper and information)
I wound up the day with a talk by Douglas Rushkoff on Present Shock, it was a fascinating talk, not sure I agree with him but I really enjoyed the talk anyhow.
I thought it was really ballsy for the EFF to be requesting donations in Aaron Swartz name after they failed him so badly. There’s a talk coming up on “How to keep the ACLU and EFF off your back” given by the EFF and ACLU. But they haven’t been on anyone’s back in at least a decade.
