Is Responsive Design really the future of web design?
My recent blog on First Advertising about Responsive Web Design.
Technology, Psychology and the Future of the Internet
Posted 9 months ago
Matt Ridley makes an excellent and entertaining case for the Global Brain, and why the future is brighter than you think.
Posted 10 months ago
The Great CCTV Camera of History
We are leaving behind such massive amounts of information about our lives, that genealogy of the future will be less like treasure hunting, and more like data-mining.
Posted 10 months ago
Fukushima and the Feedback Loop of Fear.
Let me preface this by saying I am not an expert in nuclear reactors or nuclear physics. However, I do know a thing or two about the media. The situation in Japan is serious. Very serious. And it could get worse still. But it is not the doomsday scenario being peddled by the media.
Posted 12 months ago
What does neuroplasticity have to do with web design?
This article first appeared on my blog on First Advertising.
The Information Age is putting increasing stress on our Stone Age brains. But how are the neurological consequences of this influencing how we design websites? And how can you avoid becoming a hunter-gatherer in the “electronic data forest”?
Posted 1 year ago
The Future of Augmented Reality
When the final technical challenges to the mainstream adoption of Augmented Reality are overcome, the petabytes of data stored on the Internet will flood our immediate reality, opening up new frontiers for advertising and giving whole new meaning of the term “future shock”.
Posted 1 year ago
Life Levelled Up: The Internet and the Awakening of the Planetary Superorganism
The Internet represents much more that just a technological shift or economic game changer. It signifies a phase shift in evolutionary complexity on par with the emergence of the Eukaryotic Cell. Yet we are so caught up with the consequences to society, business and government that we have scarcely had a chance to ponder its significance within the broader context of evolutionary history.
Posted 1 year ago
Illuminatism: First Religion of the Information Age
Are Conspiracy Theories Giving Birth to a New Religion? In the nine years since 9/11 conspiracy theories about the Illuminati have grown from fringe notions held by religiously inclined paranoiacs to mainstream beliefs championed by former governors and major celebrities. With unshakable beliefs and fanatical adherents, perhaps what we’re witnessing is not the unmasking of a grandiose conspiracy, but the dawn of a new religion.
Posted 1 year ago
“Phones are turning us into cyborgs. In a good way.”…or so says Google’s characteristically quirky intro to Eric Schmidt’s talk at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The Google Boss began with the incredible fact that in 3 years at most smart phones will pass global PC sales, and that mobile web adoption is proceeding 8 times faster than than the equivalent point 10 years ago with desktops. In short, the convergence of mobile web’s adoption and the growing power of cloud computers is taking us to a point where we can “literally know everything” and unveiled a world where you can do things “you didn’t even know were possible.”
Schmidt then gave us a peek at some of the Wonka-like wonders that are being cooked up in Google’s labs in anticipation of this SmartPhone renaissance. Thinks like as real time voice translation over the phone, so you can talk to a native Chinese speaker on the phone without even knowing a word. Mobile apps that can diagnose illness just by your cough. Image based search engines that can tell you what a building is, who built it and when it opens just from a photo on your mobile phone. Predictive apps that “not only know where you are, but know where you’re going”.
Posted 1 year ago
Valve’s Viral Treasure Hunt
I often see the Games and Web industries as siblings. Roughly the same age, both emerged in the late 20th century to cause fundamental shifts in the entertainment and communication landscapes. They have an established and growing overlap that started out with geeky text based MUD (Multi User Dungeon) games in the late 70s that evolved into massive profit churning monsters like World of Warcraft. Similarly, even Facebook has morphed into a viable games platform, with the cutesy Farmville turning over $145 profits in 2009.
Jamie is a User Experience Designer and Content Strategist currently based in Dublin, Ireland. He is a member of Long Now Foundation, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. On occasion, he talks about himself in the third person.
