At Lift09, Bruce Sterling tried to nail 6 ices cubes together. In the internet of things, he identified 6 trends: transition, identification, fabrication, tracking, searching, recycling. How these trends can be tackled in our world today? You really want to listen to him to get it. I don’t even know if I got it right. […]
Dominique Pestre, historian of Science at EHESS, Paris, launched LIFT09 with a provocative speech on how technology impacts society and markets. He identified 4 tensions as an outcome of innovation and technology. Technology transforms society. So it is natural that society reacts. For example, bio tech proposes to transform the body (cloning) so it is […]