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TED Downloads

The slides from yesterday's TED Talk are now available for download as either PowerPoint or PDF [4MB] (the .ppt includes notes, and I'll post transcripts at some point). It pulls together threads from research on what people carry and why; designing for illiterate users; how the streets are able to take univerally appreciated functionality/services and innovate in ways that are both efficient and in tune with the local conditions - in other words pulling together material from the other talks from the past year.

A summary? Research to understand the consequences of living in a planet that is truly connected - where for the first time most people on the planet have in their hands a tool to allow them to transcend space and time; the immediacy of ideas and information and that the metric for what we consider to be a big idea will in part be judged on our ability to engage the next 3 billion; the immediacy of portable objects and the functionality/services they represent will travel faster and further than anything we've seen - largely we've underestimated the speed of technology adoption (which broadly correlates to the singularity); that if you're smart you'll be observing street innovation and applying this to inform and infuse what and how you design; and lastly that with billions more people connected the conversation got that much larger and that if you wish to remain (or be) relevant you need to learn to listen.

The direction of the conversation will have the most profound impact on you and me because everyday we take for granted that our perspective on the world is relevant to the broader context. The cultural center of gravity is shifting and its shfiting to include languages you have yet to learn.

Related research, as always here.

Update: And TED have posted the TED Talk video here

Writing from Monterey | March 10, 2007 | Permalink