Tag Archives: liftconference

Lift12, Development, Redevelopment: Farida Vis, Twitter Usage During the UK Riots

Posted on 22.02.2012 by Stephanie Booth

[fr]Je suis à la conférence Lift12 à Genève ces prochains jours. Voici mes notes de sessions.[en]Live-blogging from Lift12 conference in Geneva. These are my notes and interpretations of Farida Vis’s talk — best effort, but might be imprecise or even wrong! … Continue reading →

Posted in Live Blogging | Tagged lift, lift12, liftconference, london, riots, twitter | Leave a comment

Lift12, Technology vs. People: Gordan Savicic, Digital 2.0 Suicide

Posted on 22.02.2012 by Stephanie Booth

[fr]Je suis à la conférence Lift12 à Genève ces prochains jours. Voici mes notes de sessions.[en]Live-blogging from Lift12 conference in Geneva. These are my notes and interpretations of Gordan Savicic‘s talk — best effort, but might be imprecise or even wrong! … Continue reading →

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LIFT08: Bruce Sterling

Posted on 07.02.2008 by Stephanie Booth

[fr]Notes prises lors de la conférence LIFT08.[en]Note: live notes, probably incomplete, possibly misunderstood. What’s the punchiest thing one can say about the past year? That’s the way it was, now get out! Europeans: historical sense. 2008 is not going to … Continue reading →

Posted in Live Blogging | Tagged bruce sterling, Events, lift08, liftconference, notes, talk | 1 Comment

Come to LIFT’08

Posted on 25.01.2008 by Stephanie Booth

[fr]Si vous ne pensiez pas aller à LIFT dans deux semaines, j’aimerais vous encourager à vous inscrire pour nous y rejoindre. J’avoue qu’une des raisons que j’entends souvent de la part de gens qui me disent ne pas y aller, … Continue reading →

Posted in Conferences, My corner of the world, Technology | Tagged conference, description, evangelism, Events, General, ideas, Internet / Computers, lift, lift08, liftconference, Psychology / Sociology, society, suisse romande, switzerland, Technology, ted talks | 7 Comments

Daniela Cerqui — Cyborgs: what kind of human being are we building?

Posted on 08.02.2007 by Stephanie Booth

Kevin Warwick: implant in arm (real surgery!), measure signal when opening closing hand, to see what the right signal for it is. => able to control a robotic hand with his brain (by moving his hand). Question of feedback. Sensors … Continue reading →

Posted in Live Blogging, Stuff that doesn't fit | Tagged cyborg, danielacerqui, ethics, Events, human, kevinwarwick, lift07, liftconference, notes | Leave a comment

More LIFT Notes: Sampo Karjalainen, Lee Bryant (and Stowe again)

Posted on 08.02.2007 by Stephanie Booth

As always, can contain inaccurate material. Sampo Karjalainen Habbo: hang-out place. You get a character, you can configure it. steph-note: looks like a very lo-res version of Second Life There are games inside Habbo. What makes people come back? People … Continue reading →

Posted in Corporate, Live Blogging, Social Media and the Web | Tagged Blogs et entreprises, Events, geneva, habbo, headshift, leebryant, lift07, liftconference, SampoKarjalainen, Social Software, socialsoftware, stoweboyd | 1 Comment