Saturday, March 10th @ 10:00 am
Laura Moorhead Sr Editor Culture, Wired
Andrew Blum Contributing Editor, Wired
Robert Fabricant Exec Creative Dir, Frog Design
Eliot Van Buskirk Columnist/Blogger, Wired News
Peter Rojas Engadget
Daniel Raffel Product Mgr, Yahoo!
Tech brings social change – everyday people effect/drive always being connected effect how we present ourselves in society
The speed that everything changes in tech is very quck. People understand their social position as it is reflected back in new tech mediums.
widgets splinter the internet as the internet splintered the world
placez.com
microtrend pepole have different send of privacy – young people put their whole lives online, older don’t. It’s up to us on how we use this info, or how companies collecting this information use it.
Possible direction – everybody can get a myspace acct maybe we’re moving towards more private invite-only networks similar to the old ftp accts before napster – you have to know someone in the real world to get access to the virtual world.
Will this come to a T? what will be the balance between private/social information? Depends on your age and how you grew up and what you have known for your life
Akai MPC firmware update
Mod/hacking these systems (web/hardware/software) is important to make them work better
sometimes businesses don’t let/want you to be able to do this when in the long run, they might make their product more valuable. Some are now focusing on the 2nd market or addons or products where they can constantly be added onto.
iPhone surprising/disappointing because of how closed it is. Surprising because of the movement towards more open apps/networks. Part of the problem is the networks (cell) are so locked down. Social trends won’t happen w/cell like they did w/computers because they are so locked down. The litmus test will be the cable card and if/how they take off.
What will influence social tech? baby boomers kids growing up having this tech from birth will determine direction.
other contries postal to email, email to postal – dev contries most likely to go the direction of underpowered last gen mobile devices and cell vs. high power computers
higher ed change to take on this issue? connect together more aspects of how students learn – games etc.
fugure of email? not going anywhere