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MULTI-SPACE

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In the “old world” everything was sort of clear: you were successful when you became a lawyer or a doctor – that is to say, if you were a man -, you got yourself a trophy wife, bred a couple of kids and – certainly – you had to have a nice house in the suburbs. Being a woman, you were supposed to believe in the same fairy-tale, however in reverse. Only a few counterparts existed of this dream-scenario, since the personal space given to you was mainly linked to family, social class, age or religion. You were so brainwashed for a life that was meant to be, that you just had to live it according to expectations.

At this moment we are in a transit zone warming up for a society where you can be more than one personality at the same time: “a grey mouse” can be her dreamed femme fatale on Second Life, a successful lawyer can be a transvestite during the weekends and a gardener of a park service can decide to recite poetry at night rather than study to become an engineer. Warming up for a world where we can watch television on your PDA, play games on a tattoo printed screen on our arm or download music “copyleft” because you can’t remember the code for i-tunes, out of - one of your many - passwords. Heading for a future where we will live in houses with communicating walls, preferring a robot as a companion because it understands you better, living in a world ruled by governments experiencing more and more difficulties keeping “Das Volk”, under control.

Privacy as we knew it , had gradually vanished throughout the years. When life was seemingly simple and clear, having your own personal space was merely a characteristic of an era. Privacy becomes an issue in times of threat, fear and danger! Writers like George Orwell, Aldous Huxley and – more recently – Michiel Houellebecq have been and are still warning us for societies that are over-controlled, mechanically institutionalized and therefore inhuman. In a way “Free Market thinking” did the same to the financial and commercial sector. With a limited goal of gaining more power in order to make more money – of-course, the reverse is also possible – you need to keep people under control. In order to create and prepare a future environment that allows us to be an entity with our own respected personal space we need to stand up!

Decision makers can’t control a future, with a perspective so different from what we have known until now. An open view is needed, embracing the opportunities progress bring us rather than condemning possible outcome, admitting that our twentieth century perspective is not sufficient to understand singularity, the multiverse or the existence of eleven dimensions. Creative thinkers with a dissolute mind rather than money-driven marketeers should stand up to help scientist and leaders envisioning the future by creating scenario’s for their discoveries and inventions, while philosophers and ethicists should assay possible positive effects and objections. Regular citizens should stand up demanding better education for their children or take initiatives like a Supercool School, creating global DIY education. http://supercoolschool.typepad.com/blog/2010/03/supercool-school-demo-spring-2010-video.html

The inherent nature of the establishment can’t be productive defining guidelines for a manual “how to live in a multi-layered society” Contemporary leaders are needed formulating new rules – although a contradictio in terminis - ideally limitless, generating a self-regulating community.

Please present yourself creative, intelligent and charismatic “front-liners” and help the globe to reveal the source of a “multi-space” leading to harmonious twentyfirst century living.

MONEY-MONSTERS

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It is so hard to believe that investment bankers cum suis are still convinced that making money, while others suffer, won't effect the continuity of their businesses. Rich people, poor people, companies and now countries, they have been and are still tricked by the greedy "money-monsters" into ventures with only one goal: to fill the pockets of these predators. I was chocked to read that the downfall in Greece is partly caused by practices that have also brought us the worst financial crisis since the last world war. James Rickards revealed these tactics in a very interesting article in the Financial Times:

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/e7168fc6-1740-11df-94f6-00144feab49a.html?nclick_check=1

Please, please... economists, politicians even bankers wake up: only a balanced market has a future. There will always come an end to more of the same. Only a healthy harmony between use and re-use, old and new, rich and poor will bring us stability for our joint future, our personal life, the continuity of our businesses and occupations...

BYE BYE PAST, HELLO FUTURE!

Farewell fear, greed and suspicion, welcome opportunities, co-creation and new energy! The future might lack the security of the past, however huge technological, political and economical possibilities leave us the only option to dive into a bright future!

Climate change or climate sceptic, doesn't matter: it's either saving the globe or making money with a new (clean) business approach. You missed a chance there, negotiators in Copenhagen!

Quick money makers, smart entrepeneurs or crooks: doesn't matter! Successful business from now on is balanced and lasting. Economists start taking secondhand and swapping serious!

Change fear for different views, religions and new developments into a creative, open attitude focused on progress, innovation and well-being for all!

Wishing you a fantastic 2010!

INFORMATION OVERLOAD OR INSIGHT?

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The dilemma of today is: do you have to read everything published about your field of study or work, or do you take time to think and experience new views. You simply can't read all the blogs, magazines, books or tweets... And if you would have the time to read them all: by the time you're finished it has become old news. To transform information into knowledge and understanding needs reflection and debate. Today's hastiness doesn't leave us room for contemplation, peace and tranquility that might lead to an "epiphany". Let's take time to understand about order where there is chaos - although without trying to control the disorder -. Try to feel and live virtuality rather than transform it into a new "real" life. Embrace the unknown and insecurity and opt for a multidimensional future: there is not one truth in the same way there are not two human characters identical.

V2-AUGMENTED REALITY CONGRES

Last Friday the 4th of December almost 100 people gathered in V2 (Institute for the Unstable media http://www.v2.nl/ ) in Rotterdam to discuss Augmented Reality AR http://www.v2.nl/events/ar-ecosystem an event organized by Kwela Hermanns and Carl Kerchmar http://portaltoyourdreamsblog.blogspot.com/

Developers, academics, artists, users and the industry first listened to presentations from Claire Boonstra (co-founder Layar, Amsterdam http://layar.com/ ), Christina Rittchen (director Mobilizy/Wikitude, Salzburg http://www.wikitude.org/ ), Willi Schroll (Owner Strategic Labs, Berlin http://strategiclabs.de/ ) and myself Truus Dokter (trend forecaster http://www.secondsight.nl/person/5141/nl , http://freshviews-itfits.blogspot.com/

After the presentations the audience discussed in different groups about the feasibility in general, commercial possibilities and long term existential implications of AR.

The development of Augmented Reality today, can be compared with the situation of the early nineties when we tried to portray the future of the internet. While the World Wide Web created a platform for the “real” world to enter the virtual one, AR does the opposite: by means of devices such as mobile phones, special goggles or even a car’s front window, the invisible can be made visible. The idea behind the technology is very simple: a mobile device with camera and compass plus the GPS coordinates from yourself and the “target” you want to be informed about. AR uses a layer program that translates the information about the objective, the device is aimed at. In the promotional film from Layar interested parties can inform themselves on price, ownership and year of construction of any given property: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b64_16K2e08 .

There are many other possibilities: re-staging the past (the roar of the lions in the Colosseum), envisioning the future (rendering a building that still needs to be built) or a guided tour with the Beatles present on Abbey Road.

The approach of layers is easy to understand, however the concept of automatic triggering really brings you into a new world: through RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) you can be recognized when you enter a certain area, for instance an artwork or a game, automatically you are part of the “bubble” you are entering. You can turn of the RFID recognition – or program it only for certain occasions – but what will happen if we can be recognized by our smell, our personal energy levels, even by aura recognition? There are still a lot of questions to be answered. However there is no doubt about it that AR is not only a hype! It will soon be an integral part of our lives: for architects and city developers, in communication and marketing, in the medical world or just for our convenience and fun. The issue of security and the fact that Big Brother get’s closer by the minute, will surely need some of our attention. Fact is that mankind has never been able to stop progress and with this development it won’t be any different. Yes..., we will have to guard our privacy as we have to do now and had to do in the past. Problems are there to be solved!

In this new millenium the twentieth century attitude of control and automation has to be left behind. A world without borders requests an open attitude - cleared from old sore – that embraces the unknown called the future. Where Google concentrates on automation, modern crowdsourcing brings freedom, creativity and limitless possibilities.

One of the interesting parts of this conference was to try to inspire the audience not only to think about the technology and the possibilities of AR, but also to welcome it into the perception of what life will be about in the near future.

In due time there won’t be a difference between real and virtual worlds. It is a challenge to start living and carring out the beautiful marriage between reality and virtuality, maybe even invent a new name for todays ubiquitous – or as Willi Schroll claims cybiquitous – world.

I LOVE TWITTER

To stay tuned we had to read newspapers, weekly's, blogs, newsletters... and now there is twitter. Of course you have to follow the interesting guys, but after awhile you will find your way and by only checking your twitter account - a few times a day - you are totally tuned in. Better than ever I might say! In the beginning I got irritated by the "I am waking up" or "I am back" messages of friends but now it has become sort of cozy. The best of Twitter is the possibility of customizing your daily news and information flow. There are people reluctant towards yet another network to be part of, I believe it gives us - besides loads of information - more freedom to choose.