The Weird Is Yet To Come

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1. @mjays #weirdshit The Weird Is Yet To Come What do we want out of a connected world?
2. @mjays #weirdshit We didn’t see it coming. I.
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4. @mjays #weirdshit “Intuitions are not yet tuned for spambot clothes sellers.” — Tim Maly (Quiet Babylon)
5. @mjays #weirdshit Intuitions aren’t tuned to spam appearing on our picture frames either.
6. @mjays #weirdshit “We apologize for any offence our algorithms may have caused” — Solid Gold Bomb
7. @mjays #weirdshit “A single mysterious computer program made up 4 percent of all quote traffic in the U.S. stock market last week[,…]” “The motive of the algorithm is still unclear.” — CNBC
8. @mjays #weirdshit “A single mysterious computer program made up 4 percent of all quote traffic in the U.S. stock market last week[,…]” “The motive of the algorithm is still unclear.” — CNBC
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10. @mjays #weirdshit “A Better Document Access System”
11. @mjays #weirdshit “The truth is no online database will replace your daily newspaper, no CD-ROM can take the place of a competent teacher and no computer network will change the way government works.” — Newsweek, 1995
12. @mjays #weirdshit “The truth is no online database will replace your daily newspaper, no CD-ROM can take the place of a competent teacher and no computer network will change the way government works.” — Newsweek, 1995
13. @mjays #weirdshit Now look where we are…
14. @mjays #weirdshit We still don’t see it coming. II.
15. @mjays #weirdshit “The conference is dedicated to the post- digital era. Why? Because the digital revolution is over, digital has won. It is no longer new and innovative, as today we take its use for granted.” — NEXT Conference, 2012
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22. @mjays #weirdshit Jevons Paradox “technological progress that increases the efficiency with which a resource is used tends to increase (rather than decrease) the rate of consumption of that resource.”
23. @mjays #weirdshit Jevons Paradox “The cheaper it is to consume » just one more « the more we will use it.”
24. @mjays #weirdshit 1.5 GFLOPS
25. @mjays #weirdshit 1.5 GFLOPS
26. @mjays #weirdshit Creatively Wasting Transistors — Alan Kay
27. @mjays #weirdshit “Rather than reserve computing power for core information processing, Kay used outrageous amounts of it for frivolous stuff like drawing cartoons on the screen. Those cartoons—icons, windows, pointers, and animations—became the graphical user interface.”
28. @mjays #weirdshit Stop worrying about connectivity. Work on what it will mean. III.
29. @mjays #weirdshit “Communications tools don't get socially interesting until they get technologically boring.” — Clay Shirky
30. @mjays #weirdshit “Communications tools don't get socially interesting until they get technologically boring.” — Clay Shirky Anything, really…
31. @mjays #weirdshit Consider connectivity solved.
32. @mjays #weirdshit Xbox, anyone?
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34. @mjays #weirdshit Video at https://vimeo.com/41686651
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36. @mjays #weirdshit “Car Surprise – when you find your car somewhere unexpected and witness your vehicle engaging in unexpected activities e.g. pickup up flowers at the mall” — Jan Chipchase
37. @mjays #weirdshit “Trailer Trashing – where dodgy looking vehicles are assigned to trail an otherwise apparent owner either as a joke or to send a message, e.g. a hearse sent by a debt collection agency to scare-up payment” — Jan Chipchase
38. @mjays #weirdshit “OK Glass — Where’s my charger?”
39. @mjays #weirdshit Martin Spindler Strategy Consultant Internet of Things | Smart Energy http://martinspindler.net hello@martinspindler.net twitter.com/mjays