IDSA / ICSID Connecting Congress 2007: Day 3

published Nov 7, 2007
IDSA ICSID Connecting Congress 2007 Day 3
The second day of the plenary sessions, themed "Connecting Virtual + Visceral" aimed at penetrating into the complex realm, which is between human intuitions and different digital technologies.

Again, the day started with a short video by Richard English, depicting an interesting collection of yesterday's events.

The first speaker who took stage in the Masonic Auditorium was Paul Saffo, who is a forecaster and essayist.

His presentation, "Design After the Information Revolution", emphasized the new possible roles that design can play.

His main point of focus was the vast shift from "information" to "media" and this transformation's unexpected and uncertain implications.

This new media, is profoundly changing the very world we live in crating many new routes to follow but also with many inherent dangers.

Such as in the case of World Wide Web drastically changing consumer habits or the dramatic rise of the "ring-tone" industry, everything is becoming "media" and even products are replaced with "subscriptions".

Individuals are no longer only consumers in this new type of society but consumer/creators, who actively contribute to the "new world order".

Design, has to redefine its boundaries to adapt to the drastic changes.