Lo spirito del tempo

cinque keywords della contemporaneità

Simona Conti
Course of Industrial Design for Digital Technologies,
Design for Communication Environement MA A.A.
2009/10, Università di Siena
Keyword 1
Wired
adj.1. Equipped with a system of wires, as for electric, telephone, cable
television, or computer network connections.
2. Slang Equipped with hidden electronic eavesdropping devices: a
wired hotel room.
3.a. Reinforced or supported by wires.
b. Tied or bound up with wire: wired bundles of newspaper.
4. Slang Having numerous influential connections, as with high-ranking
members of an organization.
5. Slang Very stimulated or excited, as from a stimulant or a rush of
adrenaline.
why?
Wired
I am everywhere, no matters where I am really.
I could potentially know/ do everything.

Internet of things/connected objects.

Always on.
WiFi.
Streaming.
Keyword 2
Ecosustainability (or
Green)
n. Capacity of ecosystems to maintain their essential
functions and processes, and retain their biodiversity
in full measure over the long-term.
why?
Ecosustainability
(or Green)
Overpopulation
Global warming
Management of new resources
Alternative energies
Green builduings
Green Design
Keyword 3
Bit (generation)
n. Computer Science
A fundamental unit of information having just two possible
values, as either of the binary digits 0 or 1.

[ Blend of B(inary) and (Dig)it ]

why?
Bit (generation)
Different forms, same content

Augmantation

De-materialization

Flexibility

Portability

Flow of Data

Save of time/money/space-> mp3, p2p->streaming-cinema digitale

Keyword 4
TWOpointOH
(2.0)
why?
TWOpointOH
(2.0)
Social
Facebook, Twitter, Dopplr, Plaxo, Linkedin, YouTube...

Contents sharing

Info mash-ups
Building meaning by adding pieces

Democratic
No expertise, basic knowledge

Folksonomies

Collaboration

More-to-more web (no 1.0)

Keyword 5
Google
why?
Google
Search

Store

Edit

Share

Maps/Images/Documents/Video

Communicate and collaborate in real time:

Google Wave (BETA)

Google OS in 2010
 Simona Conti
simofloyd@gmail.com
Course of Industrial Design for Digital
Technologies, Design for Communication
Environement MA
A.A. 2009/10, Università di Siena