this guy shoulda been at TED

and maybe he was. i didn't actually check.

anyhow, he's got some really smart ideas. he's looking at the trends in gaming (it is a gaming conference, after all...) and then in applying that to cultural trends he predicts the future. and it is a potentially amazing future. there are some brave new world aspects that frighten me, and some 1984 aspects that frighten me, but he does a good job of staying pretty optimistic and positive and i generally like what i see.

i know it's a bit long at 28+ minutes, but it's well worth it. he's obviously skilled with the power-point, keeps us engaged with humor and revelation, and actually has a point: who is going to lead us into the great unknown? while that particular question (at least, politically) is not connected to the point of this blog, it is relevant to my interests. technology and its implications in the realm of social justice is very important and something i work toward reconciling. those that hold the keys to this new world he's talking about have immense power over the rest of the world. i'm glad that he's raising these questions. i just wish it was at a venue with a little more umph, you know?

so take a peek. it's totally worth it. make sure to stay to the end, as his last ten minutes are simply amazing. i laughed the whole way through.

http://g4tv.com/videos/44277/DICE-2010-Design-Outside-the-Box-Presentation/

(cross-posted at arjunatown)

easy file sharing and streaming done right

wow. this is pretty amazing. the opera browser has a utility built in to allow secure file sharing from your computer to anywhere else that is connected to the internet. once it's set up, your home computer pretty much acts as a web server through opera's dynamic dns service. they've got tools to allow you to set up an audio streaming page that is password protected, giving you access to your entire music collection without the hassle of uploading to cloud storage (and without the cost).

i'm totally setting this up tonight.

inspiration

saw this today over on lifehacker and realized he was doing exactly what i wanted to do. so now i'm doing it. so thanks matt nowack. and thanks to lifehacker for always having awesome stuff to be inspired and motivated by.