The document discusses the effects of digital devices on customers and their lives. It notes that phones demand too much attention taking away from real experiences. It also discusses how analog metaphors make less sense with digital devices and new paradigms are needed for experiencing media like text on screens. Finally, it talks about how all information feeds into something larger than individuals, like a superorganism or colony of digital information, and how greater internet thought is now manifesting locally through events like the Arab Spring.

1. The effects
of digital devices
on customers and
their lives.
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2. Our phones demand too much attention,
detracting from our real experiences.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/aigle_dore/4089511514

3. Analog metaphors are making less
sense on digital devices.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/digiensemble/8325470011

4. We’re waiting for new paradigms
in experiencing media like text on screens.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/wilbertbaan/5553501665

5. UX is a living, somewhat unpredictable thing.
All experiences need to be fluid and flexible now.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/seokzzang/4364809020

6. You shouldn’t just try to understand
a product.
You should try to understand
its connected network.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cobalt/6123494085

7. An “Internet of things” - countless connected
sensors-is coming (and here).
http://www.flickr.com/photos/zanthia/3691015031

8. All of our information
feeds into something larger than ourselves,
a “superorganism”
or “colony” of digital information.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bustitaway/3211683341

9. The hive mind got so big that greater
Internet thought is now manifesting locally
(think Egypt’s uprising or Occupy Wall Street).
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mosmanlibrary/4978472520

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