This XKCD comic comes dangerously close to summarizing everything I’m thinking about
Not completely. But close. from the brilliant xkcd
Introduction to Contemplative Computing: My talk at Lift11, Marseille
This is an illustrated copy of the talk I gave at the Lift11 conference in Marseille, France in July 2011. I was in a session titled "Slow," and
Speaking tomorrow on spaces, media and collaboration
I'm giving a talk tomorrow at the Centre for Creativity in Professional Practice at City University London. Essentially it's a live performance of the paper spaces article, though
An extra busy day
Turns out a second article of mine, on the role of paper spaces in collaborative and creative work, appeared in today's issue of the Parsons Journal for Information
“Thinking Big: Large Media, Creativity, and Collaboration” now available
While you can only read the first two paragraphs of my Scientific American cubesats article on their Web site, another article of mine that came out today, "Thinking
Talk about contemplative computing
This is a Prezi outlining my contemplative computing work. I initially created it for a talk at Microsoft Research, but expect I'll be updating it over the next couple
History of technology, key to the future
One of the truisms about futures is that insights can come from all kinds of unusual places and unexpected corners of the world. This morning I ran across
Mindfulness and contemplation in weight loss, futures, and computing
Over the last couple years I've lost about fifty pounds. As nerdy as this will sound, while I was a fat kid and spent my adult life overweight,
Paper Spaces: Visualizing the Future
Years ago, I read Richard Harper and Abigail Sellen's Myth of the Paperless Office. For me, it's like Annie Hall or Houses of the Holy or David Brownlee's
Donald Michael and the problem of retrospection in futures
Recently I came across a discarded copy of a pamphlet by Donald Michael, Cybernation: The Silent Conquest. Michael was part of that generation of American social scientists that