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Auto-Completed Questions

05 Nov 2012
In: Future Perfect, Venice
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Imagine, in any given context opening your mouth and watching a life-time’s worth of sentence/s autocomplete before you. Now imagine, in any given context standing in …
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Yesterday’s Office: About Last Night

The conversation started three hours into the journey and proceeded with a rhythm set by the motion of the train, overlaid with second languages and …
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Data Roach Motel

25 Jul 2012
In: Cultural Norms, Mission District
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EULA = End User License Agreement. Data goes in, …
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Predictably

17 Jan 2012
In: Beijing, Today's Office
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Day trip to Beijing – picking up a visa for travel later this month. The traffic here is predictably bad to the extent you can …
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Watching You, Glancing At Me

11 Nov 2011
In: Cultural Norms, Shibuya
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Camera mounted in this Acure beverage vending machine. What this TV can say about this station? It’s passengers? Their behaviours, consumption patterns.
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How We Read the City

11 Oct 2010
In Seoul for a couple of days – meetings and a refresher on the mobile landscape. One example of the hyper-connected city? The taxi’s sat-nav includes …
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Pre-Caching Behaviours

12 Apr 2010
In: Design Inspiration, Tibet
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Train across the Tibetan Plateau – being out in remoter climes makes for a good place to test mapping software. Unsurprisingly this is not a …
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When The Small Print Is Yours

22 Jan 2010
In: Future Perfect, Los Angeles
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Triple A’s decision to monetise/sell/pimp the information provided by customers applying for an insurance quote – creates a short term monetary gain for long term …
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Data Transmission Mechanisms

16 Nov 2006
In: Future Perfect, Helsinki
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An intriguing keynote presentation by Oxford University’s Dominic O’Brien of at the World Wireless Research Forum on using solid state lighting to transfer data. Background …
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