Spime Watch: Object 2.0

*Rolling-pins autonomously swapping video.... This is very disturbing. We need a lot more apparently-nightmarish design-fiction thesis projects like this. We might learn something useful before these gizmos show up with logos on them.

http://www.yookyoungnoh.com/thesis2010/project1.html

SHARING EXPERIENCES AND CULTURE WITH PEOPLE THROUGH EVERYDAY OBJECTS, GESTURES, AND USER CONTRIBUTION

“OBJECT 2.0” is a concept proposal for the system of the near future, where the Internet is integrated into physical objects and spaces. The system also suggests the future direction of the ever-developing social Internet. In this system, we could have new terms like object-generated content, object-oriented social network, and real-time serendipitous networks that represent the world....

*Liking the references:

Books
McLuhan, Marshall. Understanding Media: The Extension of Man. The MIT Press, 1994.
Sterling, Bruce. Shaping Things. The MIT Press, 2005
Turkle, Sherry. Evocative Objects: Things We Think With. The MIT Press, 2007
Allen, Philip. The New Ecology of Things(NET). Media Design Program at Art Center College of Design, 2007
Barthes, Roland. Mythologies. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1972
Baudrillard, Jean. The System of Objects. Verso, 2006
Rheingold, Howard. The Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier. The MIT Press; Rev Sub edition, 2000

Articles

Bleecker, Julian. A Manifesto for Networked Objects — Cohabiting with Pigeons, Arphids and Aibos in the Internet of Things
Bleecker, Julian. Design Fiction: A short essay on design, science, fact and fiction. 2009
Kai Bielenberg and Marc Zacher. Groups in Social Software: Utilizing Tagging to Integrate Individual Contexts for Social Navigation

Films
Steven Spielberg, Minority Report. 2002
Christopher Nolan, The Dark Night. 2008

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