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The future of urban computing - Nicolas Nova Will more technology will improve urban life? Nicolas Nova is researcher at the Media and Design Lab at the Swiss Institute of Technology in Lausanne and one of the editors of the annual LiftConference. An expert on user experience and interface design, his research focuses on urban computing, so on how people use technology infrastructure in cities and urban environments. He says that the future of cities it is not about technology, it is about human needs, about what people want. In this interview he explains examples of the intelligent use of urban computing, like "Real-time Rome", a project realized by the MIT in the Italian capital. More at: http://www.infonomia.tv Tags: infonomia urban computing medialab technology user experience EPFL Lausanne |
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IDEO - Tom Kelley The Art of Innovation: What has innovation consulting to do with film-making? Tom Kelley, general manager at IDEO and author of books like "The Art of Innovation" and "The Ten Faces of Innovation" is a globally recognised authority in innovation consulting. In this video interview he describes the fundamental changes in the innovation business, the importance of radical collaboration and design-based thinking, explains what IDEO's innovation projects have to do with film-making and why shareholder value-obsessed CEOs won't keep their jobs too long. More at: http://www.infonomia.tv Tags: infonomia tom kelley ideo innovation design |
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Cyborg anthropology - Talking to Daniela Cerqui How far is it from Prozac to cyborgs? Daniela Cerqui is a social and cultural anthropologist at the University of Lausanne and explores the edges of "posthuman" society, a society marked by human and computer hybridisation. We talk to her about the definition of "normality" in a technology-centred world, chip implants and the future of human evolution. Daniela Cerqui is also know for following and studying Kevin Warwick's life as a cyborg from an anthropological point of view. More at: http://www.infonomia.tv Tags: infonomia daniel cerqui cyborg anthropology kevin warwick cyborg-anthropology university of lausanne |
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La Gamer Generation en el mundo laboral More at: http://www.infonomia.tv Tags: infonomia |
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ALESSI - The masters of Italian design management Why real innovation is a question of systematic failure management. The Italian design factory ALESSI is a representative example of how Italian design companies, like Artemide, Flos or Kartell, have been able to constantly reinventing themselves without loosing focus: exploring the imaginary of people by ignoring prescriptive marketing research in their product development. For this video interview we travelled to the Alessi headquarters in Crusinallo near Milan, where chief design manager Alberto Alessi spoke about his theory of contemporary design management, the ugliness of cars, how Philippe Stark's lemon squeezer came to life and why the egg is the most singular object ever "designed". More at: http://www.infonomia.tv Tags: infonomia alessi design italia alberto philippe starck milan artemide flos kartell innovation |
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Zentrale Intelligenz Agentur - Holm Friebe, Philipp Albers, Organizing work for hedonists "Zentrale Intelligenz Agentur" - German for Central Intelligence Agency - is an openly hedonistic company, founded on the credo that 9 to 5 jobs, sitting around in offices and fix salaries are part of yesterday's labour world. Holm Friebe, who was appointed one of the 100 most important Germans under the age of 35 by the magazine "neon" is also co-author of "We Call It Work - Digital Bohemia or Intelligent Life Beyond 9 to 5". In this interview Friebe and Albers explain how they see the future of work, virtual organizational structures and why creative people should not be working exclusively for one client. more at www.infonomia.tv Tags: infonomia ZIA Friebe Albers Berlin digital bohemian organization |
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Cyborg Life: Kevin Warwick In 1998, when Kevin Warwick, researcher and Professor of Cybernetics at the University of Reading, England, implanted a silicon chip transponder into his left arm and connected it to his nervous system, he became the world's first cyborg: a man-machine hybrid. Some call Kevin Warwick a pioneer in the field of neuro-surgical implantation, others think he is a dangerous scientist who has gone crazy and wants to change mankind's evolution by creating a superior race: the cyborgs. In this video interview we talk about ultra-sonic senses, brain-to-brain telepathic communication, the therapeutic benefits of his experiments and why he think's he won't be the only cyborg on this planet in the future. More at: http://www.infonomia.tv Tags: infonomia kevin warwick cyborg |
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Girona Grup: Quan el refugi és el subsòl More at: http://www.infonomia.tv Tags: infonomia |
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European start-up culture, entrepreneurship and Silcon Vall Why Europe can't produce Googles, Apples or Dells. Hervé Lebret, venture capitalist and manager of INNOGRANTS, a start-up fund provided to students by the EPFL (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) was angry with Europe. So he decided to let off steam and wrote "Start-Up: What we may still learn from Silicon Valley" in which he compares the Palo Alto success stories with the European efforts to "build" a Valley-like business environment and he explains why this has failed so far. In order to have a critical mass of Googles, Yahoos, Dells, Apples or Microsofts we need more entrepreneurial spirit, young people with crazy ideas and the guts to make it happen, he says in this video interview. So, can we really learn that, and how? More at: http://www.infonomia.tv Tags: infonomia start-up culture silicon valley entrepreneur Europe clusters Apple Dell |
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NOKIA -- Talking to Younghee Jung What a Nokia product designer thinks about the iPhone. Nokia, the leading mobile phone producer, uses exploratory design research in an almost anthropological approach to study user behaviour in order to get fresh ideas for new products and applications. We talked to the product and interaction designer Younghee Jung, leader of one of Nokia's global research teams, about the difficulties of exploring future trends in the mobile communication, the importance of local user behaviour and she finally confessed that the iPhone was actually, a positive thing to happen -- both, for Nokia and the entire mobile phone industry. More at: http://www.infonomia.tv Tags: infonomia |
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Open-Source Travelling - Meeting Noel Hidalgo Around the world in 7 months and 7 days on a budget of 7,777 USD New York City-based activist and blogger, Noel Hidalgo proofed that great ideas don't need big budgets. He adapted the tech-world open-source model to his travel project "On the Luck of Seven" by micro-financing it through donations on the Internet. During the trip he mostly slept on people's couches, using websites like couchsurfing.com or hospitalityclub.com. After 7 months and 7 days on the road he says that he learnt that the world is more similar than it is different and that we need the geeks to figure out alternative ways of progress. More at www.infonomia.tv Tags: infonomia opensource travelling world activist blogger micro-financing seven luck |
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SIGTE More at: http://www.infonomia.tv Tags: infonomia |
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Prosumers: El nuevo rol de los consumidores Vídeo del programa "Valor afegit" de TV3 en el que se habla de los Prosumers. Más en: http://www.infonomia.tv Tags: infonomia tv3 prosumers lego |
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Lift Conference 08 More at: http://www.infonomia.tv Tags: infonomia |
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MUJI - Not all Japanese are crazy about Prada or Gucci! Mujirushi Ryohin = no brand + quality goods Muji, the abbreviation for Mujirushi (no brand) Ryohin (quality goods), is a Japanese no-frills label with minimal design. We spoke the Shijo Ito, Muji's chief designer for Europe, who reveals that Muji designers find their inspiration for new products investigating people's houses and why he actually doesn't like he term "eco-design". More at: http://www.infonomia.com Tags: infonomia MUJI design japan milan shijo ito |
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Renacer'07: Promocional 2 días. 250 inquietos. Intercambiando experiencias. Observando ejemplos de innovación en sectores diversos. Conectando ideas, con el objetivo de transformarlas en valor real para la empresa... Y eso sólo fue renacer'07, mucho más en http://www.infonomia.com/ifest08/ Tags: infonomia ifest renacer |
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PHILIPS - Talking to Emilie Aarts Technology is not the driver for innovation! But what is it then? Philips has recently restructured their activities around 3 main activities: health care, consumer lifestyle and lighting. With Emile Aarts, scientific program director at Philips research laboratories, we spoke about the fundamental changes the global electronic concern has gone through in the last decade. He also explains why the added value for users does not come from technology but from design and why it's so hard for companies like Philips to measure the return on investment for innovation. More at: http://www.infonomia.com Tags: infonomia design business technology innovation ROI user value |
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Rodney Douglas - Institute of Neuroinformatics ETH Zurich How far are we on the way to brain-like computing? Rodney Douglas is head of the Institute of Neuroinformatics (INI) at the Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, one of the leading European research centres on neuroinformatics. Neuroinformatics investigates the technology aspect of brains in order to understand how it actually computes. The INI team has various promising research projects running, one is the Neuromorphic VLSI vision sensors, also called "silicon retina". In this interview with Professor Douglas we talk about the brain as a self-programming organ, brain-like computing and why understanding phenomenons like human motivation or sense of fulfilment is key to his work. More at: http://www.infonomia.tv Tags: infonomia neuroinformatics brain computing ETH Zurich motivation neuron cortex retina silicon |
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Update: resumen fall'07 Infonomia seleccionó algunas de las ideas y experiencias más relevantes de lo aconteciendo en el mundo de los negocios a finales de 2007, a partir de analizar decenas de fuentes de información. En sólo dos horas, el evento update presenta 10 ideas clave que todo directivo debe conocer: "what's going on in the world of business, now". Más en: http://www.infonomia.com Tags: infonomia update management user-centered innovación gamer-generation new-retail consumo |
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Everything is Miscellaneous - Talking to David Weinberger Why real innovation happens at the messy intersection of ideas. Philosopher and book author David Weinberger - he is partly responsible for the Cluetrain Manifesto - has published "Everything is Miscellaneous", a book on the power of the digital disorder where he argues that the established ways of ordering, explaining and categorizing things as know from the physical world, is breaking down. Instead we are witnessing the rise of the digital disorder that gives multiple choices to tag, to search and to find information. We talked to him about information overload, meta-data, the energy of disorder, user-generated knowledge and why he thinks that the printed book might disappear soon. More at: www.infonomia.tv Tags: infonomia innovation david weinberger cluetrain manifesto metadata miscellaneous book disorder digital |