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Context-Awareness: the New York Times' "Year in ideas"
We're wrapping up our research in context-awareness, but the New York Times is jumping on the bandwagon. I'm happy... it's a sign we're still well ahead of the curve.
Every year in December for the last 4 years, the New York Times Magazine has published a "Year in Ideas" issue, that highlights a couple dozen of the year's most intriguing "new" ideas in technology, politics, economics, and culture. They vary in quality, and many of the so-called "new" ideas will probably be old to many Technology Horizons subscribers, trend watchers that you are. However, sometimes there's a gem that just got lost in the shuffle, like last year's profile on Richard Norton's essay about feral cities published in the Naval War College Journal.
This year, I was amazed to see how many of these ideas were instances of context-aware computing. Here are links to them... get 'em while they're hot as they will expire to pay-per-view
- The Anti-Paparazzi Flash
- Consensual Interruptions
- Do-It-Yourself Cartography
- Folksonomy
- The His-and-Her TV
- Parking Meters That Don't Give You a Break
- Robot Jockeys
- The Runaway Alarm Clock
- Seeing With Your Ears
- The Sonic Gunman Locator
- Touch Screens That Touch Back
The future is alive!