Next year @ SXSW panel: The World Breathes Data
I thought of the panel I want to propose for next year's SXSW. Just went to the 'beyond the iPhone' session and everyone was talking about phones! I figure that phones are such an anachronistic way of thinking about our future interactions with data. I want to do a panel called "The World Breathes Data" - which focuses primarily on enhanced reality - a world in which every object is connected to the cloud - in which our user interface devices are much less "devicy" and much more like integrated components. Like when we look at a chair and it tells us its history: designer, manufacturer, materials used, carbon footprint, purchasing history, people who have sat in it, places it has been, etc... and we don't need a "phone" to access this stuff. The example becomes more relevant when we talk about people, I suppose. When we look at a person and all known data points about those people are fed into our brains. And as we walk through the world, we're transmitting a constant stream of data back into the cloud. What are the implications of this inevitable future - who is doing it - and what does it look like?
