Eyeborg

Greetings! Haven't posted for a while. Was just cruising Cooliris and found this really cool story about a filmmaker Rob Spence and his quest to create a camera eye. Check out the Fox news story!

Futuring Thinking in Libraries

I had a great opportunity to meet and talk with the Public Libraries Section of the California Library Association at the Annual meeting. The talk was designed to begin the conversation about libraries and innovation. We had a few questions that we discussed and also looked at a basic foundation model of things you need to have in an organization before you can move forward. There were great ideas and comments. I've even added a piece to the foundation model. Many thanks for the suggestion! :) Here are some resources:

Future Thinking in Libraries PowerPoint Presentation - CLA 2008

Orbiting the Giant Hairball

Change the Way You See Everything through Asset-Based Thinking

• Social Technologies - Foresight Maturity Model
• Exploratree - find more cool tools for future thinking here!
  

New energy saving system in las vegas hotel.

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Semapedia example

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Semipedia

The future is tagging. I mean tagging everything both virtual and real.
Check out Semapedia. It's really cool. The goal of semapedia "is to connect the virtual
and physcial world by bringing the right information from the internet to the relevant place in physical space." So, here's the deal. You can create a type of barcode that when viewed -with the right software - with a click of your phone's camera - links a person to information that is available about something on Wikipedia. For example, I've created a barcode for the California State Library that I can place anywhere. If someone, has the right software and takes a picture of it, their phone will lead them to the Wikipedia entry for the California State Library. Pretty Cool. Someday, you will be able to point your mobile device at almost anything and get info...This is the prime time for libraries to play!!!

Exploratree

Are you looking for some cool future thinking tools?
Check out Exploratree! It was developed by futurelab with
support from Microsoft. There are tons of models and thinking
tools to use and download. Enjoy

Android - open source mobile phone platform

Dan Morrill from Google introduced Android, which is an open source mobile platform that will allow users to build their own applications. There are more than 3 billion phones in the world today. There are 1,000 new mobile phone customers every minute.

With Android, users will be able to define and create the applications that they want to use on their mobile phones - not having to deal with the choices of phone manufacturers or carriers.

Apple opened up the iPhone around the same day in March that Android was discussed.

The key is that more customization is going to be possible. At first the hackers will rule, but
eventually it will not be impossible for us to create the simple apps that we want.