Future X.0

Hi

Questions

• Is 2.0 to 3D happening?

• Will it increase users/value?

• Is that a good thing?

EA World“No seriously, it is a world!” TM

“It’s a living world!” TM

“It’s a reality!” TM

Realities

Constraints Aesthetics

UI Challenge

“The Right Thing”

Time streams

• User-constructed

• Tools-based

• Self-sorting

• Dynamically parsed

• Re-parsable reality

…is a bit of a challenge

Costs

Fun In Numbers

“According to research carried out by office equipment supplier Canon, based on figures from the National Energy Foundation and Infosource, more than six million PCs will be left on over Christmas, consuming nearly forty million kilowatt hours of electricity.

Together with the printers and other hardware they will waste enough electricity to microwave 268 million mince pies, pumping 19,000 unnecessary tonnes of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, at a cost of around £8.6m.”

More Fun for your $ “It gets even worse with avatars….Blogger and technology writer

Nicholas Carr did some rough calculations, based on the power consumption of each server being 200 watts and the power consumption of the logged-on user's own PC being 120 watts, and reckons that each avatar uses 1,752 kilowatt hours of electricity - or about the same amount as an average person living in Brazil.

This works out at 1.17 tons of carbon dioxide per year, per avatar, or the same as driving a large car 2,300 miles.”

Turning off the digital worldBill ThompsonBBC December 2006http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6183259.stm

The Future

Ice is nice

Why ask Why?

Human Experience

What does your future look like?