Kevin Slavin invited me to be a part of the Digital Gets Physical Panel at Hubert Burda Media’s DLD08 Conference in Munich, Germany. It was a great opportunity to talk with Julian Bleeker, Neri Oxman and Ohad Eder-Pressman — each of whom had very different thoughts and approaches to the topic. My [...]

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Paulo Coehlo (author), David Silverman (The Simpsons) and Carolyn Porco (NASA), Oliviero Toscani (Fabrica)

Carolyn Porco told the story of the 60 moons of Saturn using incredible imagery from the Casini mission. All the moons are made of ice, Hyperion (? not sure of the names) looks like a sponge. She spoke inspiringly about [...]

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Sugata Mitra, Daniel Dubno, Chuck Hoberman, Greg Harper, Pablos Holman

Most Inspiring was Sugata Mitra’s “Hole in the wall,” in which he attempted to teach sometimes illiterate, non-English speaking, non-computer literate kids by just putting a touch screen computer in a public space in a town. He talked about the power of games to create desire [...]

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Getting Social: Andrej Nabergoj, Matt Cohler, Reid Hoffman, Lars Hinrichs, Joanna Shields, Moderator: Marc Samwer
Facebook has 60 million active users, they went from 10 to 60 million in 1.5 yrs. 37% is in the US, last week translation beta is available. Smart talks about being focused on user determined data sharing. Really protective face of [...]

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