Stepping Stones. #nmc12 I just returned from the Summer New Media Consortium (NMC) conference at MIT in Cambridge, MA. A terrific three days, chock-full of excellent speakers, edgy ideas, and excellent networking. This post will be an attempt to capture and process what I heard and saw – or at least a first stab at it. The first full day opened with Joichi Ito, Director of the MIT Media Lab, as the conference keynote. He gave a wonderful talk and set the tone for the meeting ahead by explaining that life at the Media Lab (where innovation rules) is less about “stocking” (filling your head with information) and more about “pulling” (being able to pull the information you need, when you need it).
Ito talked about the finances of innovation with venture capitalists. Ito then went into a description of his media philosophy, by talking about the thinkers who influenced/architected the internet. Detecting patterns Ito went on to encourage us to “think like mushroom hunters”. Lord David Puttnam Like this: Mrsebiology.visibli. Graphing Calculator. Home Page. Tech Savvy Teachers. WebGL not supported. Symbaloo | Access your bookmarks anywhere.
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