Twine. A new way to make your physical surroundings talk to you in bits. My inner geek likes this.
One step closer to something that actually makes meaning. Dont think we are there yet, but twine seems fun enough to be worth it for some of us.
"The current custodians of ebooks — Amazon, Google and the publishers — have agreed to cripple the liquidity of ebooks by preventing readers from cut-and-pasting text easily, or to copy large sections of a book, or to otherwise seriously manipulate the text. But eventually the text of ebooks will be liberated, and the true nature of books will blossom. We will find out that books never really wanted to be telephone directories, or hardware catalogs, or gargantuan lists. These are jobs that websites are much superior at — all that updating and searching — tasks that paper is not suited for. What books have always wanted was to be annotated, marked up, underlined, dog-eared, summarized, cross-referenced, hyperlinked, shared, and talked-to. Being digital allows them to do all that and more."
Wired Magazine (video) and their take on the near future of the magazine. Splendid stuff as the brits say. Inspirational. Agree?
Augmented reality is presently the hot techno babel topic. It might become something seriously useful in near future. Or it can become something like this video from Keiichi Matsuda. Fun but scary. And annoying.
"Bionic Noticing. Personal technology like smartphones light up our surroundings in different ways. It gives us a heightened sense of awareness. Matt Jones.
Check out iPhone app RjDj or webservice FourSquare.com to experience Bionic Noticing for yourself."
Check out iPhone app RjDj or webservice FourSquare.com to experience Bionic Noticing for yourself."
— Matt Jones in Wired UK edition. Dec 09.
