Tag: digital self
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Who owns the future?
Occasionally a book will provide the opportunity for the reader to travel back in time and delve into the mind of an author that was thinking far ahead, at least as far as the reader’s present. What a pleasure to now read Jaron Lanier‘s Who Owns the Future? which was published in the months following…
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Digital avatars in meatspace, and the absence thereof
Your mobile phone prompts you with an alert. You excuse yourself from your physical context to enter the digital realm. Is it a relief to escape to cyberspace or rather a nuisance to leave “meatspace”? If you were born in the 20th century, you almost certainly recall the absence of a digital realm. At best…
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“Advertise” yourself with The Physical Web, and beyond…
Would you wear a t-shirt that advertises a webpage? Attend any tech conference and you’d be hard pressed not to spot one. In fact, most of us advertise company brands every day by much more than just the clothes we wear. Now, would you wear a t-shirt that advertises YOUR webpage? Why not? You are…
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The IoT as your Brand Ambassador
Since the coining of the term Internet of Things in 1999 by Kevin Ashton, the IoT has been described in myriad ways. Just as was the case twenty years ago with the Internet, we have a habit of predicting the future of a technology by standing in the present looking forward. But what if we…