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Observations, ideas and insights. Essays, notes, readings and links from the inter-section… design and research of the digital universes and media spaces.

Future Momentum 22-26/2011 7. July 2011, 12:11

What is futureful today? A collection of online discoveries about the future (weeks 22-26/2011) includes e.g. new methods for analysing the connection between language and culture, upcoming new book about our digital future by Pierre Lévy, thoughts on the true nature of the information universe, experiments with new screen-less UX paradigm, the power of emotions in decision making and how art is becoming more social…

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Discovery Is Different - And That's Why We Need An App For It 15. June 2011, 10:25

Did you intentionally search for the things that became to be the most significant things in your life? Or did you discover them by surprise, bumping into them almost accidentally? In our daily lives, there’s a huge difference between “searching” and “discovering”. And there’s no a killer app for discovery – yet.

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Inspirational tweets 5. June 2011, 20:14

As writing a new blog post for the next week, I went through some of my archive material. These tweets really made me inspired and humble today (my work featured by some of my favorite thinkers):

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Tulevaisuuden minä rakentuu verkossa -lecture in video 11. May 2011, 10:32

My keynote from Dream School seminar (15.4.2011) is now available online as a video (in Finnish) and slides. The lecture focuses on how interactions in digital environments affect our future thinking; how digital communication shape the way we see ourselves and the world around us.

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Future Momentum 17-18/2011 9. May 2011, 10:27

How futureful is this? A collection of online discoveries about the future (week 17-18/2011) includes e.g. visions of tomorrow’s digital tech and the life of fake quotes, insights about the predictive nature of humanity, doubts related to the raise of social networking and its effects on scientific evolution, thoughtful photos in the heart of the American society and speculations on mobile web…

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