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50 Questions for Little Sister

Lhasa: the other little sister
Last week I posted an essay about the adoption and impact on Google Glass that raised more questions that it answered. Hundreds more questions in …



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15 Apr 2013

Majority Report

02 Mar 2013

In: Washington DC
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FBI adverts on a bus shelter display in downtown DC outside a branch of SunTrust bank, the ads in quick rotation had a Total Recall …
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Near Time, Unrecorded

02 Mar 2013

In: Barcelona
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How the performance of a cellular network degrades with extremely high density/usage, such as Barcelona – Real Madrid at the 98,000 capacity Camp Nou, where …
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Where Things Live When Not in Use

02 Mar 2013

In: Zurich
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When things, like the aircraft wheelchair pictured here, have autonomous mobility where do they live when they are not engaged in a task, or roaming.
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Car. Nudge.

29 Nov 2012

The practice of using private parking spaces and leaving the handbreak off – to enable the attendant to get cars in and out. (a similar …
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Cue Queues

29 Nov 2012

In: Burbank
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In a world of information overlays tied to, say, facial recognition what cues will be provided to help people queue? How does it change the …
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Toe or Be Towed

29 Nov 2012

In: San Francisco
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The definition of a “walk-off” in a world of autonomous vehicle mobility? Discovering your vehicle has strayed beyond social/legal norms while you are away.
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He’s So Dry.

11 Nov 2012

In: Beijing
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A foreigner drawing attention to spitting in China is probably the one issue that creates more negative feedback from educated, cosmopolitan Chinese than any other, …
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Auto-Completed Questions

05 Nov 2012

In: 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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Vehicle Theft

24 Oct 2012

In: San Francisco
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Vehicle theft, break-ins in the age of autonomous mobility?
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