How Technology Keeps Failing Us
and why we keep
repeating our mistakes
A look at the sidelines of history, to many of the research
projects and products that promised to change how we use
technology, but ultimately failed to make a big change in our
everyday lives. Nostalgy for the lost opportunities, reminiscing
about the promised futures, and an insistent hope that one day some
of these things will come true, in one form or another. Hopefully
these old new ideas will spur new innovation in you.
The topics covered will mostly be in the realm of computers and
electronic gadgets, as that is what I've fiddled with.
Talk at BIL 2009-02-08, 15 min.
Sidelines of history
Good ideas
that never made it big
but should have
I think so!
15 minutes isn't that long, so I'm going to concentrate on one
particular area where we see some struggling attempts to solve the
problems, but where I would like to see a lot more emergence of
functionality, something greater than the individual features.
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