Video Archive - Sept 27 2007

Reflections and Debate with David Weinberger and Andrew Keen

In this keynote presentation, Dr. David Weinberger offers a profound contribution to understanding the impact of the digital revolution, as well as a probing exploration of how we create meaning in the world.

As author of Everything is Miscellaneous, Weinberger shows audiences that we have only begun to understand how the Web is transforming business and the world around it.

In The Cult of the Amateur, Keen aims to show how today's Internet is killing our culture and assaulting our economy.

Technology writers David Weinberger, Walt Mossberg and Andrew Keen discuss ethics and the internet.

PICNIC Green Moment with Woody Harrelson, actor and activist

The world needs to embrace a new greener lifestyle. One bright idea can make a big difference. Join us and help save the planet!

Future Technology Trends

In this demo session, industry leaders Nikolaj Nyholm, Alexander Straub and Arnold Smeulders will show their technologies and share their ideas on the future of information interfaces.

Case Study: Minimally Invasive Education** through Social Play with Dr. Sugata Mitra Creativity and play are closely connected, and play can be a form to arrive at collaborative creativity. In this session, Dr Sugata Mitra, known from the 'Hole in the Wall' project, will share with us how Indian children have explored new technology and found compellig ways to use it.

Creating New Worlds featuring panelists Peter Frankfurt, Paul Pope and Danny Yount

This session is dedicated to the creative processes involved in building new worlds. Three leading creators discuss what it means to make a reality out of whole cloth - for personal reasons or on behalf of a client - and to work in an existing world made by someone else.

Creative Genius: Things I Have Learned in My Life So Far with Stefan Sagmeister

Renowned for the album covers he created for the likes of Lou Reed, Talking Heads and the Rolling Stones, Austrian-born designer Stefan Sagmeister has a slightly different way of looking at things.

Just as film, art, music and literature have the power to move people, Stefan Sagmeister's innovative work shows that graphic design, too, can cut to the emotional core.

Presence - Being Alive on the Network with Laurin Herr, Tom A DeFanti and Professir Naohisa Ohta

Going to the movies is about to become an extremely intense experience. The newest generation of digital cinema technology, 4K cinema, is four times better than HDTV and vastly superior to normal television, with crystal-clear definition and lifelike sound. CineGrid combines the latest digital cameras and projectors with supercomputers and the fibre-optic network that makes 4K possible.

Baptiest Coopmans discusses The Age of Access

KPN provides telephone, Internet and television services to personal and business customers in Western Europe. It's also a partner in free newspaper DAG and a number of other media projects. Discover KPN's vision of the media market and its role in creating the new-media and access industry.

Implementing Science Fiction

Pablos Holman is a futurist, IT security expert, and notorious hacker with a unique view into both breaking and building new technologies. At Komposite, he consults on bizarre invention and design projects that assimilate new technologies.

Trends in Communication and Entertainment with Stefana Broadbent

Why people hate to talk, love to write, don't skip the ads and still listen to the radio. For years, Stefana Broadbent has been visiting peoples' homes and offices all around the world looking at how people use all kinds of technologies. Currently, she is working at Swisscom Innovation (the R&D branch of the Swiss telecommunication company) where she is leading a User Observatory with a team of social science researchers. She is focusing on how people are specializing in their use of different communication channels.