Nicolas and I sat down before the last session, trying to come up with early takeaways I briefly talked about to wrap up the conference. Here are 6 ideas that came up after listening to the 20 different Lift Asia presentations as written on Pasta & Vinegar.

1. new experience of space: physical space change, the way we perceive and interact in space is modified. Christian Lindholm talked about wifi places as oasis, Adam Greenfield talked about the new way we will experience places, etc.
2. redifinition of currency & business models as shown by Davird Birch’s talk, Joonmo Kwon described new business models such as co-promotion or the fact that game money are controlled by game designers (they even control the inflation rate)
3. service convergence as described by Joonmo Kwon and Takeshi Natsuno. Social networks = games = email = IM = online store
4. cities are interfaces: Jury Hahn, Jeffrey Huang, Soo-In Yang or Adam Greenfield gave us different propositions
5. technology is relative: some countries are more advanced than others but things are very relative, the speed of change is increasing (as shown by Jan Chipchase), it’s never black or white, the notion of “uses” is also different.
6. real world is a limit: the limit is often simple: the physical reality: battery life (and that there could be solutions as exemplified by Raphael Grignani), machines that crash, etc.