Cory Doctorow published a story on Bruce Sterling's Lift France 09 talk on Boingboing. The video then received 3000 views in 48h :) Thanks Cory!

Mike sez, "In this video from the LIFT 09 conference, Bruce Sterling looks back at what he wrote in the great book 'Shaping Things' about spimes, RFID, and the 'Internet of Things,' and sees how his theorizing has held up."

Very few books have influenced me as much as Shaping Things did (here's my review). The video is a don't-miss/must-see.

Bruce Sterling "Shaping Things" (Lift09 France EN)

(Thanks, Mike!)

Link to Boingboing post

At Lift France 09, Mike Kuniavsky spoke about Changing Things: Fab Labs, towards decentralized design and production of material products. You can watch the video here.

Mike sent us some news this week, as his book on ubiquitous computing user experience design is done and will be shipping in August. You can pre-order it here. Based on case studies, the book will show the evolution of products caused by ubiquitous computing. It also describes frameworks and processes, as well as giving practical advice on how to handle these unique design challenges.

At Lift France 09, Elizabeth Goodman spoke about Changing the Planet. You can watch the video here.

We caught up with Elizabeth this week. She's been quite busy since we last saw her in Marseille. She was awarded an Intel PhD fellowship, and was a visiting researcher at Microsoft Research New England. At the moment, she is organizing City Centered, a festival of locative media and urban community, to take place in San Francisco's Tenderloin District in June.

A flashback to Lift France 09, and Douglas Repetto's talk about creative innovation and tinkering.

Douglas Repetto "Changing Innovation" (Lift09 France EN)

Catherine is the Director of Counterpoint, the British Council’s cultural relations think tank. A former Director of Demos, she is a regular commentator on identity politics in the UK and Europe.

Dominique Pestre, historian of science, has worked on the relationship between physics and technology in the XXth century. Part of his work is also dedicated to understanding the heritage of the war on scientific methods such as game theory, system analysis, operative research.

Alexandra is an industrial and interaction designer. She attended the Interaction Design Institute Ivrea where she met the other founders of Tinker.

Bruce Sterling is an American science fiction author, best known for his novels and his seminal work on the Mirrorshades anthology, which defined the cyberpunk genre.

Jean-Michel Cornu is chief Scientist at Fing (Next Generation Internet Foundation in France) and acts as an international consultant on Information Society and Technologies. He has published several books. Among them "Prospectic, new technologies, new thoughts" on new technologies such as Nanos, Biotechs, ICT, Neuro-sciences, Cognitives sciences.

Frank Kresin is Programme Manager at the Waag Society. His interest and expertise is in developing solutions for societal problems, programme management, technology and standards of e-learning, broadband based services, social software and open content.