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Lift09 — Vint Cerf

Story of the talking dog. Excitement, but nobody is paying attention to what the dog is saying. Vint feels like the talking dinosaur. (haha) The Internet works because there are standards, and people cooperate to work together around those standards. … Continue reading

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Lift09 — Melanie Rieback — RFID and Security

Whitehat hacker. RFID uses radio waves to identify things. Shows much of a promise for breaking (?) into things. Next low-end of computing. You have to bring virtual attacks into the physical domain, when it comes to RFID. Some security … Continue reading

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Lift09 — Frank Beau — Métromantiques

Notes prises à l’occasion de la conférence Lift09. Bla-bla habituel de prise de notes: je fais de mon mieux, mais ce ne sont que des notes, qui peuvent contenir des erreurs et inexactitudes. Coup de foudre dans le métro. Comment … Continue reading

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Lift09 — Baba Wamé — L’appropriation de l’Internet par les femmes camerounaises

Remerciements. Cameroun: petit pays d’Afrique Centrale (11 fois plus gros que la Suisse). 18mio d’habitants. Langues officielles: anglais et français. Villes: Yaoundé, Douala, Bafoussam, Garoua, Maroua, Bamenda. Internet dès 1997, 400000 utilisateurs internet, dont 50000 en connexion directe. 2500 cybercafés … Continue reading

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Lift09 — James Gillies — How the Web awas Born: Stories from a scribe

Was in the right place at the right time to write the story, says he. 1995: “we must write the story before everyone forgets…” James expected it to be a dull boring story. Big surprise! You can’t just tell the … Continue reading

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Lift09 — Jörg Jelden — Fakesumption

Unauthorized products. Office in Beijing, was shocked by the importance of fakes over there. Talked to his manager “let’s do something about it”. So started talking to fakesters, those who track them down, lawyers. Disclaimer: not making fun of a … Continue reading

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Lift09 — Matt Webb — Scientific Fiction and Design

Book: Cusp, Robert A. Metzger. SF (steph-note: sounds like a crazy story, need to read it!) This is not the SF we’re talking about here. No flying cars, silver skullcaps… Here: Scientific Fiction (World War Z — zombie story; the … Continue reading

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Lift09 — Sarah Marquis

Laurent: extraordinary stand-in speaker Sarah Marquis, an adventurer who goes off for months on end, walking across Australia for example. Est-il possible aujourd’hui d’imaginer se retrouver dans la nature sans aide technologique? On est des mammifères après tout. Pas d’électricité, … Continue reading

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Lift09 — Envisioning the Future City — Anne Galloway

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

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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