The Lift Conference is a place to discuss and work on how technology challenges and creates opportunities in our society. At a time of undeniable turmoil, it seems sensible to take a look at how Technology can affect a component that is particularly intertwined with our Western strain of Society: the Economy. Read more…
Are you looking for a better place to work? A professional environment, more flexible, with opportunities to interact with others? Are you a member of a COWORKING space? Or are you still hanging around between your HOME and COFFEE SHOPS? Or are you located in a traditional WORKSPACE or a SERVICED OFFICE? Read more…
Join us for an action-packed workshop to explore alternative methods of exchange. The focus is on a possible future ecosystem – in a new world where today’s aging, less useful and even dangerous financial systems are replaced by (or mixed with) more disruptive innovations and exchanges. Imagine yourself deprived of all of today’s financial resources. Maybe you’re a refugee or stateless. Yet you still have your handset and laptop and Internet and a broadband cellphone connection….
This is one of the provocations posed on KashKlash, an open forum and web project focusing on alternative economies in a post-money future. What will such a world look like? How will the concept of value be measured? What concepts will shape the formal and informal economies? Bright thinkers from around the world came together online to discuss, debate and ideate in this innovative and exciting project.
KashKlash is a collaborative project between Heather Moore of Vodafone, Experientia and a group of independent visionaries. The project started with four bright and innovative provocateurs, Nicolas Nova, Joshua Klein, Bruce Sterling, and Régine Debatty, and as the debate gathered steam, contributions, comments, flickr photos and twitter streams rolled in from more than 50 additional participants to shape and envision possible futures.
Explorations of large quantity information visualization
Current technologies allow people to capture, warehouse and retrieve vast amounts of data; more information than we can comprehend as individuals – more than we will ever need. As we move through our days, generating text messages, phone calls, photos, documents, and their inherent metadata, we are not conscious of the cloud of information that we create and carry with us.
In a world where we are constantly bombarded by more information than we can process, it is tempting to entrust this information to computers to store and organise for us. It is tempting to think that the more we store, the safer our memories and important ideas are. We let paradigms that are logical for computers govern the way our personal data is organised and accessed, at the expense of more human forms of interaction. Read more…
What happens if you put together a CEO of a security company, the developer of the first application server based on the W3C’s semantic standards, an analytical philosopher with a technical background and all will be moderated by the CTO of one of the freshest internet companies of Switzerland? We don’t know it yet. But what’s for sure: We will be demonstrating working examples of semantic web technologies. We would be happy to see you and participate on killing the web 2.0. Read more…
We are after 2025, the society has been completely “servitized” (service economy) and most if not all interactions are now dematerialized. The e-Government existed when you were born and you grew up in an e-Democracy. You, as a concerned citizen, remember voting for the first time in 2025. You were then 16 years old.
During this workshop you will be asked, based on a short context description to choose among three types of society / government evolution models. A “free-enterprise” model, a “good big-brother” model and a “smooth continuity” model where things evolved in a rather linear way since the early 21st century. Should you have another idea for a model not mentioned above, bring it along and we’ll allocate a fourth “wild card” group by vote among the participants for the one gathering the most interest. Read more…
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