Initial Thoughts from Emerging Tech 2005
As with any conference like this, it's probably going to take a couple of weeks for everything to perculate properly, but here's some short initial notes on the 2005 Emerging Tech Conference.
The big obvious brainfarts come from:
- Microsoft Research's Sensecam
- The work of Applied Minds - in particular the touchtable and its 3d successor
- Chris Heathcote and Matt Jones's presentation on Tangible Computing
There were loads of other great ideas - probably many more than last year - you just had to think a little harder to find them. Sessions and ideas I'm pondering right now include:
- Joel Spolsky's riff on misattribution
- Matt Webb's talk on brain hacks
- Some of the ideas from the 37 Signals talk (which looks to be the very similar to their SXSW session
- Amazon's opensearch
- Tangible Computing (again)
The overall theme coming out of the conference seemed to me to not be about "remix", but about how this technology interacts with, and is affected by, the Real World and the human brain. Looking back, that was possibly true of last year too, I just didn't see it at the time.
More notes and ideas when I'm not quite so jetlagged...