Monthly Archives: February 2009

Lift09 — Pascual Oriol

Posted on 26.02.2009 by Stephanie Booth

(Enviu Innovation Lab) We believe consumers are rational, and if we provide information to them, they will act accordingly. steph-note: big mistake!! The future of sustainability is in the hands of entrepreneurial people. People with Wow! ideas. Innovative solutions for … Continue reading →

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Lift09 — Envisioning the Future City — Anne Galloway

Posted on 26.02.2009 by Stephanie Booth

Expectations, promises and hopes are things that we do. Anne looks at what people do, make, say. Tries to figure out why we don’t do, make, say other things. To make certain futures happen: broken relationships between certain groups of … Continue reading →

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Lift09 — Dan Hill — Soft Infrastructure Superpowers

Posted on 26.02.2009 by Stephanie Booth

Has been travelling since Monday, arrived from Australia 3 hours ago. Poor Dan! How to re-route 400 passengers? Soft infrastructure, bits of paper with numbers on. In Hong Kong, malfunctioning aircrafts (steph-note: not sure I’m understanding all this.) Hotel Smart … Continue reading →

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Lift09 — Future Cities — Carlo Ratti

Posted on 26.02.2009 by Stephanie Booth

We are headed for the death of cities. In 2008, half the world population is living in cities. mapping = complexity to simplicity How do we make sense of all these digital representations of physical spaces? Bunch of projects. (haha! … Continue reading →

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Lift09: Turning Lake Leman into Silicon Valley?

Posted on 26.02.2009 by Stephanie Booth

I participated in a Birds of a Feather session earlier, titled How can we make Lac Léman into an entrepreneurial hub? — I found it a little frustrating to start with, but it ended up really lively and interesting. One … Continue reading →

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Lift09 — Florence Devouard — Update on Wikimedia Foundation

Posted on 26.02.2009 by Stephanie Booth

At the start, was difficult for the foundation (not enough money, etc). During the last couple of years, has stabilized a lot — much better situation.  25 staff members, 350 servers, 8mio dollars budget, audited and located in San Francisco. … Continue reading →

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Lift09 — Globalism, Mobiles, and The Cloud — Juliana Rotich

Posted on 26.02.2009 by Stephanie Booth

Global Voices. blogs == good (control your vision, branding) forums == ?? (echo chamber, what’s going on?) Problems with blogs: too much to read, lunch photos, invisible breaking news, technorati is “just OK” (sorry!) If you’re Kenyan and looking for … Continue reading →

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Lift09 — Ramesh Srinivasan — Cultural Futures

Posted on 26.02.2009 by Stephanie Booth

What would a diverse digital world/web look like? How is the web impacting the world? Design exposed Ramesh to questions of culture. (steph-note: I think this is a very good point/thing.) Put technology in the hands of people: things happen. … Continue reading →

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Lift09 — Change — Yeong Roh

Posted on 26.02.2009 by Stephanie Booth

Arts: helps her think about herself. Shift of mode from previous speakers. More reflective. Change what, and how? and what should we change? Start with changing our outlook or perspective of ourselves. I Ching. Book of change. 2800 BC. Author … Continue reading →

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Lift09 – David Rose – How Fiction Shapes the Future

Posted on 26.02.2009 by Stephanie Booth

Persistant needs/wishes fantasies: to know to communicate to heal to protect to create for mobility Inspirations for where to advance. Know To know the truth. Invention and fiction. Marsden (?): here were no cultural icons representing strong women => WonderWoman, … Continue reading →

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