Month: February 2007

Wikitecture

I’d love to see an object that many people could modify in some way, which could be rolled back to earlier versions or have individual modifications ratified somehow by the group. Turns out I’m not the only one. I recently noticed an interesting discussion on The ARCH, an excellent blog on virtual architecture, about the possibilities for collaborative design mechanisms in Second Life (complete with transcript). “Is true Wikitecture and collaborative asynchronous design possible in Second Life? If so, what kinds of tools, scripts and rules might be necessary? Some exciting ideas are already beginning to surface.”

collaborative architecture?

Europe Geological Attics

Though I want so badly to learn that a man made labyrinth of tunnels and passageways has been blasted through the highest mountains of the Alps – perhaps even possible to ski through – it seems that this “famous rock tunnel” doesn’t go very deep, and that it houses nothing but enginery for the ski lift, bobbing noisily in the wind outside. But there’s just something so incredibly evocative about an abandoned network of Alpine ski lifts.

i just love all that architectural speculation

Human-future interaction

human-future interaction would be the art and science of effectively and ethically communicating research, forecasts, and scenarios about trends and potential futures. Within the consumer technology sphere, human-computer interaction has become the framework that links the capabilities of technology, the behaviors of users, and the goals of designers and developers. These 3 constituents have very similar counterparts in futures work, and human-future interaction should serve much the same role–connecting the capabilities of design tools and media formats with the strategic needs of users, shaped by the goals and insights of researchers and forecasters.

on better futurism

Lifelogging, An Inevitability

Still the overriding concern is how to read, retrieve, and use this huge – and I mean huge – ocean of data that your life will generate. There’s one solution not normally offered in discussions of lifelogging that seems reasonable to me. 10 years ago computer scientist David Gelertner envisioned a new organizing metaphor for one’s growing cache of personal data. Instead of boxes and “windows” a lifelog should be centered on well, a life log, a timeline, chronological log of one’s life. “We’re going from an artificial information storage scheme to a far more natural one. The idea of a timeline, a chronology, a diary, a daily journal, or a scrapbook is so much older and so much more organic and ingrained in human culture and history than the idea of a file hierarchy.”

we have to finish jim gray’s work.
2007-03-04:

New systems may allow people to record everything they see and hear–and even things they cannot sense–and to store all these data in a personal digital archive

The state of lifelogging