{"id":264,"date":"2006-09-26T17:58:55","date_gmt":"2006-09-26T17:58:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/diversifiedcuriosities.com\/2006\/09\/26\/old264\/"},"modified":"2017-08-18T18:03:04","modified_gmt":"2017-08-18T18:03:04","slug":"old264","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.nearfuturelaboratory.com\/2006\/09\/26\/old264\/","title":{"rendered":"Picnic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.crossmediaweek.org\/pics\/logo\/logo-home.gif\" width=\"430\" height=\"213\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m heading to Amsterdam for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crossmediaweek.org\">Picnic &#8217;06<\/a> to give a talk on, er.. the Internet of Things, a topic near and dear and, despite the somewhat pedestrian sound of the topic (what else would the internet be except an assemblage of &#8220;things&#8221;), it is a subject that flags some weak signals as to what it will be like in the near-future to live in a pervasively networked world.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m looking forward to talks by the likes of Linda Stone, my chum Ben Cerveny from the Playground Foundation, Philip Rosedale from Second Life, Soh-Yeong Roh from Art Center Nabi, my USC colleague Michael Naimark, John Thackara, Matt Jones and Marko Ahtisaari. And there are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crossmediaweek.org\/?id=38\">tons of other very interesting sounding folks.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.crossmediaweek.org\/pics\/logo\/logo-home.gif\" width=\"430\" height=\"213\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m heading to Amsterdam for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crossmediaweek.org\">Picnic &#8217;06<\/a> to give a talk on, er.. the Internet of Things, a topic near and dear and, despite the somewhat pedestrian sound of the topic (what else would the internet be except an assemblage of &#8220;things&#8221;), it is a subject that flags some weak signals as to what it will be like in the near-future to live in a pervasively networked world.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m looking forward to talks by the likes of Linda Stone, my chum Ben Cerveny from the Playground Foundation, Philip Rosedale from Second Life, Soh-Yeong Roh from Art Center Nabi, my USC colleague Michael Naimark, John Thackara, Matt Jones and Marko Ahtisaari.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[72],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v14.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Picnic - Near Future Laboratory<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.nearfuturelaboratory.com\/2006\/09\/26\/old264\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Picnic - Near Future Laboratory\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I&#039;m heading to Amsterdam for Picnic &#039;06 to give a talk on, er.. the Internet of Things, a topic near and dear and, despite the somewhat pedestrian sound of the topic (what else would the internet be except an assemblage of &quot;things&quot;), it is a subject that flags some weak signals as to what it will be like in the near-future to live in a pervasively networked world. 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