Reconstruction of Bill Buxton's closing keynote at CHI 2008 in Florence. More notes and links at http://www.mprove.de/events/08/chi/buxton.html

1. On Being Human
in a digital age
Matthias Müller-Prove
User Experience Architect
Sun Microsystems
Reconstruction of Bill Buxton’s Keynote, CHI 2008

2. Benvenuto Cellini *1500 †1571:
Saliera ca. 1541
http://www.finearttouch.com/The_Mannerist_Art_of_Benvenuto_Cellini,.html

3. Benvenuto Cellini: Perseus mit Kopf
der Medusa (1545-54)
http://flickr.com/photos/7634495@N02/541067538/

4. Benvenuto Cellini: Perseus mit Kopf Michelangelo Buonarroti:
der Medusa (1545-54) David (1501-1504)
http://flickr.com/photos/7634495@N02/541067538/
http://www.myclassiclyrics.com/artist_biographies/Michelangelo_biography.htm

5. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart *1756 †1791
http://www.billbuxton.com/leopold.pdf
http://flickr.com/photos/kmakice/2412734628/

6. Bill Buxton – early 1970s, with workstation à la Engelbart.

7. State-of-the-art of the science vs. State-of-the-science of the art

8. Kranzberg’s First Law:
Technology is not good,
technology is not bad,
but nor is it neutral.
Kranzberg’s Second Law:
Invention is the mother of necessity.

9. Walter Dorwin Teague, Beau Brownie Camera, Eastman Kodak, 1930
http://www.browniecamera.nl/walter_dorwin_teague.htm

10. Walter Dorwin Teague, Beau Brownie Camera, Eastman Kodak, 1930
http://www.browniecamera.nl/walter_dorwin_teague.htm, http://www.pbase.com/ralph46/image/53985211

11. Walter Dorwin Teague, Beau Brownie Camera, Eastman Kodak, 1930
Jonathan Ive, iPod Mini, Apple Computer, 2004
http://www.browniecamera.nl/walter_dorwin_teague.htm, http://www.pbase.com/ralph46/image/53985211
http://west.sytes.net/archives/mac_mac/

12. It’s the long nose of innovation,
not the long tail. When you
have a problem and a design
challenge there is a repertoire
to draw from.
– Bill Buxton
http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/content/jan2008/id2008012_297369.htm

13. Apple Newton MessagePad, 1993
Simon SmartPhone, IBM & Bell South, 1993
http://www.stateoftheark.co.nz/apple/newton120.html, http://www.gadgetsarabia.com/2007/09/22/cell-phone-history/

14. Apple Newton MessagePad, 1993
Simon SmartPhone, IBM & Bell South, 1993
Jonathan Ive, iPhone, Apple Computer, 2007
http://www.stateoftheark.co.nz/apple/newton120.html, http://www.gadgetsarabia.com/2007/09/22/cell-phone-history/
http://www.movilae.com/2007/01/11/iphone-sera-3g

15. “The only true voyage of discovery is not
to go to new places, but to have other
eyes.”
– Marcel Proust
Basically, you don’t transform things by
doing them from scratch, but by seeing
them through different eyes.

16. You cannot write about art without
knowing history deeply. Why is this not
more true for technology?
– Bill Buxton

17. “I am complaining on the level of informed discussion. Write more
articles and papers!”

18. Cultural change is possible. Just consider the anti-smoking campaign…

19. … the explorer is actually one who “seeks
discoveries,” He is not simply and solely
the “discoverer.” Instead the accent is
upon the process and activity, with
advances in knowledge simply fortunate
through expected incidents along the way.
It is likewise not casual. It is purposeful.
– Goetzmann (1966), p. xi

20. The opposite of work
is not unemployment
…it’s passion.

21. Design
If you consider the ethics, you can still do
great business.
Get rid of the idea that business,
technology, ethics, and design are
opposed to each other.

22. On Being Human
in a digital age
Matthias Müller-Prove
User Experience Architect
Sun Microsystems
www.mprove.de/events/08/chi/buxton.html