Visions of the Future: Spime Watch and Pattern Recognition

Pattern Recognition and Spime Watch:“Living in an unevenly distributed future-present”

Slides for Ignite NYC and Ignite DCBy Alexander Howard [@digiphile]

"The future is here.

It's just not evenly distributed yet."

The future is mobile.

In 2010, 82% of Americans have a cellphone.

60% of American adults go online wirelessly.

Source: Pew Internet

Smarter cities

Source: IBM

Smarter commuting through data

Image Credit: Real Time Rome from Senseable.MIT.edu

Augmented streets

Augmented reality

Pervasive connectivity

Image Credit: PetitInvention

Smarter cycling

spime

“A theoretical object that can be tracked precisely in space and time over the lifetime of the object”

-Wordspy Image Credit: @knolleary

Cities of spime

Image Credit: City Of Sound

Real UFOs

“Everything grows miscellaneous. And people are transformed into ubiquitous findable objects (UFOs), along with pets, products, possessions and places”-David Weinberger

Digitalmemories

Image Credit: Portal To Your Dreams

Augmented overload!

Image Credit: Daonk.org

“Ambient findability” - Peter MorehouseImage Credit: Scott McLeod

We’ll need better filter/browsers

Image credit: PC World on Aurora

Better social software

Image Credit: Mediabistro

Better apps to audit data

Solar clouds

and novel

publicdata

displays

Image Credit:Inhabitat

Digital tools for open government

NY Senate on iTunes

Platforms for citizens to self-organize

Image Credit: ITO World