“There’s a clear direction … away from people thinking, ‘This is my PC, this is my hard drive,’ to ‘This is how I interact with information, this is how I interact with the web.’”
Occasionally you come across a quote that reinforces up what you have been trying to communicate for ages, such is the [...]
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interacting with information
Posted in comment, futures, knowledge, open source, technology, web2.0 on January 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
defining zero carbon
Posted in built environment, carbon, comment, construction, energy, facilities management, futures, green buildings, legislation, links, quality, route2zero, sustainability, technology, tagged DCLG, facilities management, zero, zero carbon on January 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
As a post on this blog noted at the end of last year, the definition of zero carbon buildings is currently under consultation by the Department for Communities and Local Government.
I am in full agreement with Casey over at Carbon Limited who blogs for a call to arms on this one, this consultation is so [...]
does the built environment ‘get’ the web?
Posted in IT, collaborative working, comment, futures, links, second life, virtual worlds, web2.0, tagged be2camp, CEO's, cloud computing, saas, The Secret Life of CEO's, web2.0 on September 15, 2008 | 2 Comments »
CEO’s do not ‘get’ the web, according to the last of four articles in today’s Telegraph that reviewed Steve Tappin and Andrew Cave’s book The Secrets of CEOs and looked at the emerging web3.0 and its impact on business.
Web3.0 will have a profound impact on building designs and the way we use buildings, through for [...]
a smart eco house that daydreams?
Posted in architecture, futures, housing, links, open source, technology, web2.0, tagged be2camp, usability, Zuiprezi on August 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Following recent communication with Adam Somlai-Fischer at Zuiprezi, who I hope can get to talk at the be2camp event in October, I took a look at the Reconfigurable House, a concept environment developed by Adam constructed from thousands of low tech components that can be “rewired” by visitors.
So far so good, but reconfigurations can [...]
… on avatars
Posted in comment, futures, virtual worlds on July 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Was it just serendipity yesterday that minutes after reading the excellent Vision of the Future winner (Rob Ainsley) in New Scientist (8 Jun 2058: So, from today, avatars have equal status in the workplace. ….) that I read the blog entry from Pam (GridWorks colleague and friend over in Illinois) on her issues with having [...]
an eco car for your eco home?
Posted in comment, futures, housing, transport, tagged Eco Cities, eco-car, eco-towns, Twitter on June 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Dont you just love this.? The eco car to go with your eco home, if your allowed one that is.
Futurist, and Shaping Tomorrow colleague, CindyFW over in Kansas brought this to my attention through a recent twitter.
I muse: what if in 10 years or so this is the common persons car, the one we [...]
eco tour in second life
Posted in events, futures, second life, virtual worlds, tagged eco tour, Public Works Island on June 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In advance of the Public Works orientation day take a look at the video, Eco Tour on Second Life. produced earlier this year by UC/Berkeley graduate student Stephanie Gerson (Sequioa Hax in Second Life) and Charles Lawrence (Geuis Teses in Second Life), part of a larger project with the Environmental Protection Agency to explore how [...]
changing construction trend alert
Posted in comment, construction, futures, links, tagged construction futures, shaping tomorrow on June 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Todays Trend alert from Shaping Tomorrow focuses on Changing Construction
Pre-fabricated Buildings
Author: Sheila Moorcroft
Could the announcement that a large part of the 2012 London Olympic Stadium may be deconstructed and sent off to Chicago for the 2016 Olympics trigger renewed interest in offsite, pre-fabricated construction techniques? Possibly yes; but a lot of regulation will [...]
wikitecture wins international open source competition
Posted in News, architecture, collaborative working, futures, innovation, open source, second life, virtual worlds, web2.0, tagged wikiteecture on June 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A web2 collaborative project I have been following through second life and wiki architecture has been the open source architecture design competition via Open Architecture Network.
Delighted then to receive the following good news alert from Ryan at Wikitecture:
Wikitecture Wins International Competition: 3D-Wiki Used to Compose an Open-Source Entry
Chicago, IL, June 09, 2008 – [...]
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Posted in comment, fairsnape, futures, innovation, knowledge, resilience, web2.0, tagged Charles Handy, Empty Raincoat, guide, networking, recession, sigmoid curves, survival, Twitter on March 9, 2009 | 3 Comments »
The recent excellent BBC Life on Mars series painted a harsh, dark and in many ways ugly portrait of life in Britain in the mid 1970’s. It was in that this environment I started a career in construction, a young trainee QS, working a ‘statutory’ three day week with fuel and power rationing (only able [...]
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