What are the design principles that will drive the creation of the next generation of objects? When you can safely assume that not only ubiquitous, high bandwidth networked communications are available, but also that the behaviour of people has been already primed to understand, and almost empathically relate to realtime data collection, and feedback, entirely new classes of useful objects can emerge. Couple this with rapid prototyping, and the tight feedback loop of constantly measuring interaction, with its resulting utility, and what you’ll find is a radically different way of organizing the creation, distribution, use, and re-use of the manufactured world we live in.

1. The Future of
Social Objects
Nov 10, 2010, London

4. <0> Warmup
<1> Nature Doesn’t Care
<2> Change
<3> Today
<4> Tomorrow

6. David Orban
Founder & Chief Evangelist

7. davidorban
Please connect, now!

8. <0>

9. Warmup

10. 27 > 100

11. ..., 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128

12. ...
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0.03125
0.0625
0.125
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...

13. Questions
Answers
Ignorance
Kevin Kelly - kk.org

15. </0>

16. <1>

17. Nature
Doesn’t Care

19. How it Used to Be

20. “Mother Nature
Is a Bitch!”
Edward A. Murphy, Jr. - 1949 ca.

21. </1>

22. <2>

23. Change

24. What Changed?

25. ...Then Changed...

26. ...And Changed Again

27. Technology Is
the Means

28. Barriers to Adoption
Social
Legal
...
...
Infrastructural
Economic

29. </2>

30. <3>

31. Today We Can Fail

32. "The formula for success?
Double your rate of failure."
Thomas J. Watson, IBM
“The Internet multiplied a
thousandfold our failure rate,
without increasing the
cost of our success”
Cory Doctorow

33. <Example>

34. <Yesterday>

35. Columbus

36. Water Hemisphere

37. <Today>

38. Web 2.0 Startups

39. </Example>

40. William Gibson
The future is already here. It is just not evenly
distributed yet
Fred Armitage

41. The Open
Internet Of Things

42. Evolving Devices

43. Spime = SPace + tIME
Bruce Sterling

44. Spime
memory
computation
communication
location
sensor

45. Social Object
a spime participating
in structured groups
with humans, or
other spimes

46. 1

47. Ubiquitous
Connectedness

48. IPv4
IPv6
Atoms
≈ 109
≈ 1038
≈ 1080
A Granular World

49. IPv6 & Our Cells
IF we assign a unique address to
each cell in the human body
THEN we can handle a
septillion individuals (10^24)
WITHOUT resorting to NAT! :)

50. Drawing Fine Lines
Wonderlane

51. 2

52. Tight Feedback Loop

53. Necessary Autonomy
Platform Orders of magnitude
PCs ≈ 108
Mobiles ~ Humans ≈ 109
Spimes > 1010

54. Around Us Already
Ryan Harvey

55. 3

56. Constantly
Measuring
Interaction

57. Network Evolution
Generation Isotropy Access
Web data knowledge
Web 2.0 applications social
Spimes sensors world

58. Redundancy of spimes
NASA JPL

59. 4

60. Realtime Data

61. Changing Dialogue
Generation Bandwidth M2M Index
Industrial apps Kb/s 1%
Realtime Web Mb/s 10%
Spime Networks Gb/s 99%+
M2M index: M2M/M2H, communications among machine in proportion to those with humans

62. Data deluge
µµ

63. 5

64. New Classes
Of Useful Objects

65. Not Blind Anymore
Object # sensors
Mobile phone 10
Car 50-100

66. Awareness
Volvo

67. Awareness
NYTimes

68. 6

69. Common Sense Understanding
privacy
relationships
needs
emotions

70. Empathy
Engaget

71. </3>

72. <4>

73. What Will Be Next?

74. What’s On Your Radar
Banksy / Robbiedangerous

75. Originality &
Inventiveness

76. Work
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jimfischer/248752580/

77. Food & Shelter
http://www.flickr.com/photos/hamed/1552383685/#/

78. Democracy
http://www.flickr.com/photos/latitudes/135745767/

79. New Social Contract
http://www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc/4866242774/

80. </4>

81. </end>

82. Thank You!
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