Bifo: After the Future. Le guerre del futuro? Sul web Si combatterà il nemico coi social. Twitter, Facebook, Google + e gli altri stanno diventando sempre di più delle preziose fonti di informazione in grado di sorvegliare il nemico, capirne le intenzioni ed anticiparne le mosse.
Institute For The Future. Design Probes - Far-future research dialogue by Philips Design. Philips Design - Design Futures. Microbial Home by Philips Design. Dutch Design Week 2011: Philips Design in Eindhoven present a conceptual self-sufficient home that converts sewage and rubbish into power.
The Microbial Home would function as a biological machine, using the waste from one area of the home to power another and creating a cyclical ecosystem. A bio-digester kitchen island would break down solid bathroom waste and vegetable peelings into methane, while plastic packaging would be broken down by fungus. Fresh food would be stored in an evaporative cooler and part of the dining table, while honey could be harvested from an urban beehive. Five models of the system are on show at Piet Hein Eek's gallery as part of Dutch Design Week, which continues until 30 October. You can see all our coverage of the event here. Design Portfolio - Design Probes - Food. AIRBUS Concept Plane For Year 2050 With Bio-metric Seats and Transparent Cabin. The European aircraft manufacturer Airbus had unveiled a concept airplane for the year 2050 that would transform the present day tiring air journey to a sightseeing strip.
The aircraft has a lean structure with a blended fuselage and blended wings. The tail wings are ‘U’ shaped and rap the engines to reduce the nice. The plane doesn’t have a vertical central rudder like present-day planes. The wing design resembles modern-day fighter planes like F22 and PAK-FA (T50) more than the commercial planes. Last year I wrote another post about a future concept plane of Airbus. Aircraft Body Rather than having a metal body it will have a hard skeleton and the rest made of reusable or biodegradable plant based materials. Bio-metric Passenger Identification Bio-metric passenger identification system identifies the passengers who are to board the plane instead of using boarding cards. Future of Media Video: Google Takes Over the World by 2050. Davide Casaleggio sent a tip to Read/WriteWeb about a video his company produced exploring the future of media.
It is a very cool 6-minute video, which takes some educated (and imaginative) guesses at how the Web and media will evolve over the next 40-50 years. In the short movie, Google, Amazon.com and Second Life are the big winners - with Google buying Microsoft, Amazon buying Yahoo, and Second Life becoming the dominant virtual world. The core future media concept is the Agav - an Agent-Avatar, which "finds information, people, places in the virtual worlds". Here's where it gets interesting. Immaginare il futuro della tecnologia didattica - Infografica Centro Studi Etnografia Digitale.
Oggi vi proponiamo un’interessante l’infografica Immaginare il futuro della tecnologia didattica che ipotizza la co-evoluzione dell’educazione e della tecnologia fino all’anno 2040.
Questo documento è stato prodotto da Michell Zappa e dal suo team di ricercatori di Evisioning Technology che si occupa di disegnare mappe su come potrà essere il futuro della tecnologia. Noi del Centro Studi abbiamo avuto il consenso per la traduzione integrale del documento e la sua pubblicazione in esclusiva. L’infografica si distingue per la divisione in cinque macro aree di riferimento: Gamification, Apertura delle Informazioni, Aule digitalizzate, Disintermendiazione, Informatica Tangibile e Studi Virtuali/Fisici.
Morphing Cutlery. Imagine a world where the shapes of all objects around you would be able to change on the fly.
Envision a future where nanotechnology and morphing become ubiquitous and blend in with the physical environment of the everyday. One day society will look back on our crude, static appliances and wonder how we survived without programmable matter catering to our needs. It is the goal of designer Jeffrey Braun to explore how to design for a new interaction paradigm that is proposed as ‘Morphing Interaction’, as conducted at the Next Nature lab. When the digital merges with the physical world, our perceptions of space, time and the physical become a play with reality. As morphological properties do not impose specific forms or interactions for a design, it allows for an abundance of functionalities. As history learns, major innovations in technology bring forth new types of products with new interaction styles.
Urbanflow Aims To Turn Cities Into Playgrounds For Interactive Infographics. Ever find yourself wandering around a new city (or even one you’re familiar with), and approach one of those handy urban info-kiosks only to find that it’s completely inadequate to the task of telling you where you are, where you might want to go, and what is going on around you?
Urbanscale has the same frustration, which is why they teamed up with designers at Nordkapp to design a set of updated public signage called Urbanflow that’s as connected and interactive as the smartphone in your pocket. Here’s their concept video: God knows it’s tempting, in this day and age, to slather touchscreen awesomesauce over every physical object we possibly can. And Urbanscale’s vision of an "operating system for cities" is compelling. As they astutely write: "The challenge is that while cities are fast, municipal decision making is slow by nature.
Sounds awesome. Maybe such a scenario could be avoided if the screen were large enough and had multitouch capabilities.