NEXT notes
Back from Copenhagen. Enjoyed it a lot! Some snippets and quotes from the conference, also a try in a public scrapbook –
Secrecy is the enemy of innovation (George Dyson)
Google is allegedly trying to optimize their server farms in a way that they will never be idle but constantly optimize the databases – they will dream.
In Africa, it often is the case that you get perfect reception in the middle of nowhere but you will have to drive for hours until you can recharge your phone.
There’s a Science Fiction Handbook which is supposed to be wonderful for designers.
In Romania there’s a village in which several of the houses from the TV-show Dallas have been recreated.
Places need stories.
Since the introduction of the computer, we had been playing alone for 30 years.
ASCII-art was allegedly invented by teletype-operators in the 1920s who were sending graphical Christmas-cards.
The IGDA published a white paper about alternate reality games.
Social is the new God. (Charles Leadbeater)
The industrial way of value exchange is going to disintegrate rapidly.