Extending the Self Peter Brantley Digital Library Federation April 2008

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trends trending toward interactivity gaming and education melds (self-) competitive learning ... primacy of rapid exploration

trending toward interactivity

gaming and education melds

(self-) competitive learning ...

primacy of rapid exploration

transition to gaming world “ In [the game] world you immerse yourself in an immensely complex, information-rich, dynamic environment where you must sense, infer, decide, and act quickly.” - John Seely Brown, “Exploring the Edge”, Change , Sep/Oct 2006.

“ In [the game] world you immerse yourself in an immensely complex, information-rich, dynamic environment where you must sense, infer, decide, and act quickly.”

- John Seely Brown, “Exploring the Edge”,

Change , Sep/Oct 2006.

demand <> pull No longer passively building stocks of knowledge Interacting : with the World Participating : the flow of Action

No longer

passively building

stocks of knowledge

Interacting : with the World

Participating : the flow of Action

“ This is Dewey for the digital age: a profoundly social construction of understanding enabled by the Internet.” - John Seely Brown, “Exploring the Edge”

“ This is Dewey for the digital age: a profoundly social construction of understanding enabled by the Internet.”

- John Seely Brown, “Exploring the Edge”

a revolution that is fundamentally reliant on net- scale applications mobile +

a revolution that is

fundamentally reliant on

net- scale applications

- “She’s on the phone” by Nice Logo, Flickr, Nov 20 07

- “She’s on the phone” by Nice Logo, Flickr, Nov 20 07

I’m huddled under the awning of a cycle rickshaw parked on the fringes of Lhasa’s Barkhor Square. The driver of the rickshaw is patiently explaining how Tibet has changed during his lifetime with a cheery demeanor that belies both his scant winter trade and his likely disposable income. It’s close to midnight and the traders selling incense, herbal remedies and prayer wheels to the devotional have left hours ago leaving the square deserted save for a light dusting of snow and a descending mist. A muffled ring tone can be heard under layers of clothes and he pulls off a glove, reaches into his coat, draws out a RAZR - his wife wants to know when he can be expected home. He drops me at the delightfully named Yak Hotel and cycles into the night. -- Jan Chipchase, “Future Perfect”, 2008

I’m huddled under the awning of a cycle rickshaw parked on the fringes of Lhasa’s Barkhor Square. The driver of the rickshaw is patiently explaining how Tibet has changed during his lifetime with a cheery demeanor that belies both his scant winter trade and his likely disposable income. It’s close to midnight and the traders selling incense, herbal remedies and prayer wheels to the devotional have left hours ago leaving the square deserted save for a light dusting of snow and a descending mist. A muffled ring tone can be heard under layers of clothes and he pulls off a glove, reaches into his coat, draws out a RAZR - his wife wants to know when he can be expected home. He drops me at the delightfully named Yak Hotel and cycles into the night.

-- Jan Chipchase, “Future Perfect”, 2008

mantra connect communicate collaborate (CCC)

connect

communicate

collaborate

(CCC)

key focus :: :: telling the world about your status in some ongoing way :: receiving notification of important events Courtesy/Hank Williams “ Why does everything suck?”

:: telling the world

about your status

in some ongoing way

:: receiving notification

of important events

Courtesy/Hank Williams

“ Why does everything suck?”

new generation narratives are PEOPLE not CONTENT F > o > c > u > s > e > d

are PEOPLE

not CONTENT

F > o > c > u > s > e > d

mobile platforms Apple’s Google’s iPhone Android (are) - game-changing -

Apple’s Google’s

iPhone Android

(are)

- game-changing -

coming : really soon social collaborative  learning environments

coming : really soon

social collaborative 

learning environments

wild designs portable networked computing interfaces

wild designs

portable

networked

computing

interfaces

extending one’s self into space

extending

one’s

self

into

space

(c) NYT, “Paper is out ...”, March 18 2008

hyperlinking the physical world “ Japan’s KDDI will launch visual search on its Spring 2008 au line of camera phones, and will make the application available for download to current customers with an au camera phone. Visual search allows people to take pictures of things with their camera phone and get content based on the image — sometimes referred to as hyperlinking the physical world. ” 17 April 2008 http://www.moconews.net/

“ Japan’s KDDI will launch visual search on its Spring 2008 au line of camera phones, and will make the application available for download to current customers with an au camera phone. Visual search allows people to take pictures of things with their camera phone and get content based on the image — sometimes referred to as hyperlinking the physical world. ”

17 April 2008 http://www.moconews.net/

Evolution Robotics YouTube iPhone example (at 1:27

YouTube iPhone example

(at 1:27

streaming video

Tiananman Square Drive By http://qik.com/video/40402 (at 1:00

let’s edge into future space

petiteinvention

nokia morph

areas to watch Rudy de Waele Plugg.eu - March 19, 2008 dot.Open

sensoring biometrics transactions lifestreaming recommendation image recognition augmented reality mobile connected games location based social media retail proximity media consumption Rudy de Waele Plugg.eu - March 19, 2008 dot.Open

sensoring

biometrics

transactions

lifestreaming

recommendation

image recognition

augmented reality

mobile connected games

location based social media

retail proximity media consumption

Rudy de Waele Plugg.eu - March 19, 2008 dot.Open

“ Small objects travel further and travel faster - their meaning adapting to the ever-changing context. Every step an opportunity. ” -- Jan Chipchase, “Future Perfect”

“ Small objects

travel further and travel faster -

their meaning adapting to the

ever-changing context.

Every step an opportunity. ”

-- Jan Chipchase, “Future Perfect”

new story types already beginning to take shape on web, investigating the mobile

already beginning to take shape

on web, investigating the mobile

Inanimate Alice

ramifying -- placing people first: { putting content in the hands of each of us working, learning, playing } -- with others ...

-- placing people first:

{

putting content in

the hands of each of us

working, learning, playing

}

-- with others ...

&, we must think About what we “own” How we sustain our work What freedom means

About what we “own”

How we sustain our work

What freedom means

“ Implicit in the markup for computer recognition, extraction and manipulation is a license to actually do those things.” Georgia Harper

not ask ing : how do we organize and publish information to make it useful for people?

how do we

organize and publish

information to make it

useful for people?

instead ask: what are people’s needs and how do we organize and publish information ... to expand and amplify human potential? (w/thx to Bob Stein)

what are people’s needs

and how do we organize and publish information

... to expand and amplify human potential?

(w/thx to Bob Stein)

“ Generation Gap” by Joi Ito, Flickr, Apr 11 07

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