Bit Rebels Infographic – The Future of Television.
Month: August 2013
Over the past four years, the Walt Disney Company has been engaged in a secretive effort to redesign the Disney World experience. It’ll go like this: You buy your ticket online and plan all the details of your visit. Then you’ll get a wristband in the mail, which will be a passport to the experience that you’ve curated. Snug around your wrist, the so-called MagicBand will use radio frequency to communicate with sensors around the park, all orchestrated by software that effectively turns Disney World into a computer interface. You can enter the park by holding your hand up to a kiosk; you can arrive at shows with 30 seconds to spare, having already reserved your seats; you can jump onto rides you’ve selected at preselected times without waiting in long lines; you can buy anything you want with a wave. An It’s a Small World character could call you by name and wish you happy birthday. So could Mickey, who can also greet you at a preselected meeting time. This is all in the service of fun, of course, but it is also a glimpse of the future: an integrated experience, a smooth hybrid of real-world and digital interactions.”
My favorite line – WE ARE CONSTANTLY ADDING NEW GADGETS.
EVEN AS THEY HAVE GOTTEN SIMPLER INDIVIDUALLY, THE CUMULATIVE COMPLEXITY OF ALL OF THEM TOGETHER IS INCREASING.
We’re used to broadband companies competing with one another, wireless providers competing with one another – but Google competing with Comcast? GigaOm explains.
Wired tells the story of Project Loon, a Google plan to bring the Internet literally everywhere via balloon. Fascinating.
MIT Technology Review shows us where to find the world’s largest innovation clusters – looking for the next Silicon Valley.
More on big-data, and a new app from Monetate that predicts which customers react to campaigns. Fascinating how this is being used. From Venturebeat.
It sounded very “catch all,” but I took a look at this infographic anyway. I’m so glad I did – I knew you could do most of these things with a smartphone but didn’t know exactly what apps were involved. Measuring distance, turning the phone into an instant webcam, turning off the light – here are all of the “smartest” things to do with a smartphone. From BitRebels.
Amazing pictures from GigaOm that show what Wi-Fi actually looks like and how networks propogate in the real world.
Not useful in NYC, the author notes in this article on All Things D. Other challenges noted in the article as well, though conceptually it seems like a great idea –
Workplace Learning in the Digital Age 