Chris Dymond: Ubiquity

The final stimulus session starts. The 20:20 (20 slides, 20 seconds per slide) format is really keeping things moving fast!
Chris says that technology wants to be ubiquitous. A truly ubiquitous technology is taken for granted, think of paper, the car, the mobile phone. Adoption rates for new technologies vary dramatically and the timescales for adoption [...]

Dave Mee: Holistic engagement

The fourth Unsheffield stimulus talk from the Showroom in Sheffield.
Dave is from TANDOT Ltd.
Now there is a new marketing landscape, where everyone is a publisher and there is bottom-up communication.
To down-communicate no longer works.
The medium is the message.
People find out about stuff now through Google, syndication etc. People can find out about anything if they [...]

Helen Milner: Swap Shops

Using Empty Shops for Skills Swap Shops (Unsheffield June 2009)
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Helen’s talk starts, continuing the frantic pace.
She starts by making reference to digital Britain. One in four of us don’t have internet access. She shows slides of empty shops, houses for sale and to let, and talks about how job [...]

Sam Easterby-Smith: Not necessarily new-tech or high-tech…

The second Unsheffield stimulus talk from the Showroom in Sheffield.
Sam hasn’t been in the Showroom for 5 years. He has travelled around but it is good to be back.
Are his children the future users of new tech? Of course. Future users will also be us when we are dead – our footprint is on the [...]

Saul Cozens: Independent Mobile Workers

The first stimulus talk of unsheffield 2009 has just started. Jay Cousins, the compere for the event, waits patiently for the crowd to settle. The room is packed and competition for seating is intense. The traditional call for mobile phone silence has the entire room shuffling – as you might expect. He then introduces the [...]