My bookmarks from the past week:
- Utilities Turn Their Customers Green, With Envy - NYTimes.com
Is ‘keeping up with the neighbors’ incentive to reduce energy consumption? How about head-on competition? - COP15 United Nations Climate Change Conference Copenhagen 2009
Coming soon to a city near me - COP15 United Nations Climate Change Conference Copenhagen 2009
Coming soon to a city near me - From the InternetS of Things to a Web of Things
Dominique Guinard’s slideshow from the LIFT 09 Workshop - Internet of Things: Roadmap for the Future
Vlad Trifa’s slideshow from the LIFT 09 Workshop - Wired for Progress: Building a National Clean-Energy Smart Grid
Everything you need to know about the “smart grid” right here - Hyper Island: Hello IDEO!
Two Hyper Island grads talk about their experience working at Ideo London - Manifesto of Open Disruption and Participation by Eric Paulos
“Ubiquitous technology is with us and is indeed allowing us to communicate, buy, sell, connect, and do miraculous things. However, it is time for this technology to empower us to go beyond finding friends, chatting with colleagues, locating hip bars, and buying music.” - The Demon-Haunted World - Matt Jones Presentation at Webstock Conference
“Since the 60s we’ve imagined the combination of computers and our environment would create both utopias and dystopias. Since the 80’s we’ve seen academics, artists and corporate R&D labs prototype these futures from the top-down. Now, hackers are building sensors, bots and software into everything around them bottom-up, fast, cheap and out-of-control. They’re creating environments that react, adapt and respond to us - and perhaps more importantly - each other: The Demon-Haunted World. Matt’s session will be a whistlestop tour of those days of future past and pointers to some practical futures we can start building right now, together.”