Mason Dixon on Mon, 25 Aug 2008 02:34:25 +0200 (CEST) |
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<nettime-ann> Fwd: ETech 2009 Call for Participation |
. > > O'Reilly's Emerging Technology Conference is my favorite geek confab > of the year. The presenters aren't usually celebrity types but just > supersmart nrrrds making fascinating tech and thinking about the > impact of innovation on our lives. I'm really excited to be on the > program committee again this year. The Call for Participation is now > open and we're looking for big ideas across a huge spectrum of tech/ > culture, from materials science and synthetic biology to nomadism > and sustainable life. From the ETech 2009 site: > > > Living, Reinvented: The Technology of Abundance and Constraints > > We live in two worlds: one filled with abundance and the other with > constraints. Each has its own favorite—or essential to survival— > inventions and directions. Each has been deeply affected by > technology. > > The abundant world has access to the Internet and other educational > tools, to the latest advances in medicine, to culinary choices from > around the globe, and up until recently, access to "plenty of" > energy. This abundance can lead to waste since most everyday objects > are easier and cheaper to replace than fix. But sometimes this > excess can lead to creation—a reinvention of waste—as we see in the > pages of Make magazine. > > The constrained world has to make do with what's available. Why > scrimp and sacrifice for a computer when most people have mobile > phones with an SMS server that can do the job just fine? With > limited food, water, fuel, medicine, it's the people and their ideas > that are often the cheapest part of the equation. Their technology > looks to collaboration and connection with fewer resources—almost > the opposite of the industrialized world which seeks to make each > individual as effective as possible. > > What technologies cross the divide? How do the two interact and > cross-pollinate? On the surface, they wouldn't seem to overlap, but > on deeper examination, inhabitants of both worlds learn from each > other constantly. > > Here are some areas at the intersection of abundance and constraint > we'll be exploring at the 2009 edition of ETech, the O'Reilly > Emerging Technology Conference: > > * City Tech > * Materials & Mechanics > * Personalized Healthcare > * Mobile & The Web > * Geek Family > * Synthetic Biology > * Nomadism & Shedworking > * Sustainable Life > * Life Hacking & Information OverloadETech 2009 Call for > Participation (O'Reilly) > > _______________________________________________ nettime-ann mailing list nettime-ann@nettime.org http://www.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-ann