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Blended Reality: Reports from the Digital/Physical Future
Get ready to immerse yourself in a new blended world, a place where
people weave together digital and physical environments as they go
about their daily lives. It's a world where the virtual and the
physical are seamlessly integrated, and Cyberspace is not a place you
go to but rather a layer tightly integrated into the world around us.
Join us for this Technology Horizons Exchange to get a glimpse of this
world and to learn what it means for you, your organizations, your
employees, and your customers.
In our past exchanges we delved into technologies behind this
transformation--wireless Web, advanced simulations, sensor webs, mobile
devices, etc. In this exchange we will focus on the experience of
living in the blended digital/physical world--the practices people use
to navigate this world and the issues they face.
You will have a chance to hear from a young woman who streams every
moment of her life to an online interactive audience, a researcher who
documents his life 24/7, a professional who has created an external
digital “brain” that works in symbiosis with his biological one, and
much more. You will interact with researchers developing some of the
leading edge applications, people on the forefront of evolving new
social practices in the blended world, and IFTF researchers who will
share foresights based on their recent ethnographic research. And you
will experience the debut of a unique video installation called Global
Lives, a project that embodies what IFTF has termed "bottom-up
ethnography." Global Lives is an international collaboration of
filmmakers, designers, architects, and activists from around the globe
who are documenting 24 hours of the lives of 10 people from 10
different countries.
Don’t miss this unique opportunity to glimpse at how our reality may be changing right under our noses.
Please mark your calendars for November 18-19, 2008. The conference will be held at the Stanford Court Hotel in San Francisco, California.
If you have questions about this event, please contact Sean Ness, 650.233.9517, [email protected].