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All the pictures from all those at Futuresonic using the tag Futr09 on Flickr.
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This years conference was really well organised and brought a great collection of speakers together. The ranging insight and expertise they brought to the conference felt relevant and the mix of practicing artists and ‘tech-industry’ representatives generated some interesting debates on the platform.
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It’s the last place you’d expect to hear John Lennon’s anti-religion anthem Imagine, but the tune rang out yesterday from the bells of an Anglican cathedral.
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Stream from Tim Difford which inlcudes links providing more information to Adam Greenfield’s resentation about networked city environments.
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Hearing their lucid presentations, it was hard not to wonder where Digital Britain took their advice, and how they could miss so much. And, then again it was possible to wonder if Digital Britain matters. The kids are already there. And the semantic web’s killer services will likely spring up from nowhere and go pandemic before…
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Liveblogging in FriendFeed was a cynch. Having set up a dedicated FriendFeed Group for people to discuss the summit, I created a new discussion thread within that Group for each talk that I attended. The title of the thread was sent automatically to Twitter to help draw people into the discussion. I then spent the duration of each talk typing a short paragraph about each point that the speaker made. People following the liveblog saw these appear in realtime without the need to refresh their browser.
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Coverage via FriendFeed made up a lot of the ongoing commentary and you can access this here thanks to Martin Bryant who worked tirelessly to create this throughout the summit.
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Some very artistic shots by SamScam. Considering the festival essentially took place in a couple of fixed locations. Sam’s eye for the different has really paid off to produce such a stunnimg array of pictures.
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May 17, 2009#Futr09 Keynote: “We have wrenched ourselves away from the editors”
May 14, 2009
Self-confessed “presentist” (as opposed to futurist) Stowe Boyd’s keynote speech looked at the cultural shifts being brought about by the move to a more participatory world wide web – including certain death for the current mass media.
Predicting an impact on society where the values of the post industrialised, more tribal world will return to be important. He said: “There’s a view that this democratisation of the media – we all have a chance to go on the web. It’s almost a pre-industrial ethic. I refer to it as being egalitarian but it’s not really a total levelling of everyone’s involvement. There’s still a lot of room for individual reputation authority.”
Spelling out the well-documented demise of newspapers across America during this morning’s keynote speech, Boyd predicted that the same fate awaited all other countries as the move away from traditional media models swept through.
“The collapse of traditional media is a direct consequence – it’s happening fast across America. It’s a cautionary tale.
“All those people in Boston are supposed to be good citizens, buying the Boston Globe, and they are not.
“The mass media never put it in these terms, they often put it like a faddish taste. It’s not that it’s a power shift. People are deciding for themselves what’s important. We have wrenched ourselves away from the editors and once they’ve done that they are never going to give it back. They can’t erect pay walls and expect to get that back.”
Using the success of Twitter as a prime example, Boyd predicted the emergence of much more social and participatory media where interactions are, by default, public.
“Social location tools, networks in general and future things like social television are coming into their own.”
I’m blogging more during the day here; http://community.futureeverything.org/pg/blog/sarahhartley
