A thought provoking journey into your attention span and how new technologies create new (a)social behavior.
Keynote by: Linda Stone, author and thought leader with a background as VP at Microsoft and long time executive with Apple who coined the term “continuous partial attention”.
Seen at SIME 09: http://sime.nu/09/stockholm/conference-agenda/conferenceshedule/
A thought provoking journey into your attention span and how new technologies create new (a)social behavior.
Keynote by: Linda Stone, author and thought leader with a background as VP at Microsoft and long time executive with Apple who coined the term “continuous partial attention”.
Seen at SIME 09: http://sime.nu/09/stockholm/conference-agenda/conferenceshedule/
Pablos the hacker shows how easy it's to hack a credit card on stage at SIME 09 in Stockholm
A hacker’s view on innovation and the future
Keynote: Paul “Pablos” Holman. Pablos is a futurist, IT security expert, and a notorious hacker with a unique view into both breaking and building new technologies. His projects at the Intellectual Ventures Lab are among the most futuristic in the world. He will show how the mindset of hackers is optimized for…
Paul "Pablos" Holman, a futurist and a notorious hacker. Pablos hacked into a phone line live at SIME to begin with to justify the negative connotation of the word hacker, and then spoke about some of his futuristic inventions for reducing global warming, eradicating Malaria and harnessing nuclear energy (a Plan C for the world if one might call that). A classic view of how one's skills can be garnered for a positive change
The transformers – companies going from offline to online with a smile
Some traditional companies embrace digital opportunities and make digital part of their DNA while most fail miserably and see new entrants disrupt the old playing field.
Keynote by: Jesper Kärrbrink, CEO of Eniro, one of Europe’s most progressive classifieds companies, former CEO of Svenska Spel and author of criminal novels.
Panel: Sara Öhrvall, Head of Bonnier R&D (Sweden),…
Steven Overman, founder of the Realtime Project, communications pioneer talks about how "story telling" is the holy grail of marketing. And the lack of a formula or secret recipe makes marketing even more tougher to understand. Steve was in the room when the first banner ad was created in 1994, and he thinks unidirectional advertising is dying.
The web is becoming a Reality
The web used to be cyberspace and be digital, now it increasingly connects to physical places, people and things. A case journey into Augmented Reality by Matthew Szymczyk, Zugara.com.
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Linda Stone, coined the theory of "Continuous Partial Attention" a result of the technology boom that allows us to be 24*7. This leads to both thesis and anti-thesis of sorts, whereby the only good thing is engaged attention as compared to exhaustion, stress, anxiety that is a by-product of this continuous partial attention we give to our lives.
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