Baritone English Villain
This is Phil Dearson's online plot. He is Digital Director at a London agency. He can be contacted all over the place.
Long (but worth it) video where Bob Greenberg (Chairman, CEO & Chief Creative Officer) and Barry Wacksman (EVP, Chief Growth Officer) from the estimable R/GA talk about agencies for the digital age. The best bit is where they talk about campaigns vs programs vs platforms.
via Ben Malbon at BBH Labs
Did you know 4.0 - This is another official update to the original “Shift Happens” video. This completely new Fall 2009 version includes facts and stats focusing on the changing media landscape, including convergence and technology, and was developed in partnership with The Economist.
PayPal’s opening up a payment API to developers in November.
Nokia Mixed Reality - they say: “This concept allows to you to experience immersion and effortless navigation in new ways. New types of interactions involving near-to-eye displays, gaze direction tracking, 3D audio, 3D video, gesture and touch.”
All in all, not very imaginative at all, if you ask me.
The Singularity Film. Will we survive our technology?
“Within the coming decades we will be able to create AIs with greater than human intelligence, bio-engineer our species and re-design matter through nanotechnology. How will these technologies change what it means to be human?”
Old Post Office video about the future of phones. Quite amusing, Cecily. Via the estimable Boing Boing
What GTA can teach us about connecting with consumers
Not a fan of the word “consumer” (who isn’t one?) but otherwise some really good stuff in here from Tim Stock.
Thanks to Jeroen Matser for the link.
“Cyberdyne Corporation of Japan, in conjunction with Daiwa House, has begun mass production of a cybernetic bodysuit that augments body movement and increases user strength by up to tenfold.” via h+ magazine
