The Jetsons promised we would all be using flying cars by now. While that business tech is on the verge of finally being realized, it isn’t overshadowing a lot of other cool ideas that are on the drawing boards. When it comes to scouting trends in future technology, there is a nice new resource available to help the search: Future Scanner.
Toxic Toothpaste
Carter reads everything. Wherever he is, if there’s something with print on it in front of him, it gets read– including toothpaste tubes.
Archie believes just about everything Carter says. The other night Kevin was attempting to get the boys back to bed. Sounds of struggle emerged from the bathroom.
Carter: STOP, Archie! You have to stop! [...]
Our Winter Wonderland
Our winter wonderland is a land of wonder today. As in, I wonder if I’ll get to leave the house. On the docket today (tentatively): (a) our outing to get a live Christmas tree, (b) my marathon group design session this afternoon, and (c) the IU men’s basketball game tonight.
Ben Shneiderman: Creativity support tools
This is live blogging coverage of Ben Shneiderman’s colloquium today, entitled: “Creativity support tools: Accelerating discovery and innovation.”
One pill makes you larger
While it’s a relief from the commercials of cartoons (aquadots that turn to GHB, for example) the science shows Carter enjoys have perils of their own. Apparently, people who watch daytime documentaries are target audiences for herbal enhancements. Carter saw one of those ads today and had this to say:
Carter: A pill to be larger? [...]
Designing What’s Next
A central theme of disconnection between theory and practice was meant as a call to HCI theorists to improve both the communication and the pragmatics of technique. That disconnection applies in the other direction, too, in how we perceive and intervene in the evolution of the World Wide Web. Perhaps we need a little more theory in our practice of predicting the future.
New Discoveries
Carter’s really into watching documentaries on the Discovery, Science or History channel. Yesterday we were watching The Universe on the History channel.
Carter: So. The moon will eventually run out of our gravity. (thinking) The moon will be gone.
Me: The moon will be gone?
Carter: But, the Sun will flare out before the moon loses earth’s gravity, [...]