But wait, there’s more.  Interesting background on Stromberg Carleson.

[Repost from my entry at the openexchange.org.]

Created by Google Creative Labs,”3 Dream’s In Black” is part art experiment, musical collaboration, part CGI video and breakthrough web coding assignment. Driving a culture of experimentation, all Googler’s are encouraged to pursue experiments both relatable and non-relatable to Google’s business. All to drive a passion of innovation.

How Google makes innovation part of the cultural fabric, not a project or a siloed process.

• Democratizing Ideas. Engage “the people.” Have people magnify the mania and become your evangelists. The user is your marketer.
• Gaining Credibility through the right partners: With finesse of smart salesmanship to make ideas happen.
• Challenging conventions. Question how things should be done (e.g., YouTube and the Guggenheim??)
• Don’t do marketing. Solve problems.
• Know the user. Know the magic. Connect the two. What’s the emotion behind the idea? * taken from Jeffrey Davis’s blog, post his visit to Google Creative Labs.

Rome: 3 Dream’s in Black is an impressive feat with famous musicians including DJ Dangermouse of Gnarls Barkley fame, Jack White and Nora Jones. For most of us it might appear interesting, but not far from what we expect from video games and animated movies. The true stunner, is that this was essentially built with web code, “Web GL-JavaScript” and HTML 5. And.. through a Google Chrome Browser, you can steer and immerse yourself within it.

Amazing. Say hello to the future, the 3D virtual web experience.

Great stuff under the direction Chris Milk, Google Creative Director, Aaron Koblin and @radical media. More about the project at Mashable.

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First, one of the best planners and digital minds around, Helge Tenno and his thoughts on Retail:

.. and PSFK’s look:

PS: Step back to Wired a Magazine flashback (1998) to the future to see where the bar is set for future retail predictions:

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/6.07/negroponte.html

“Freelance projects, joint ventures, entrepreneurial startups are all paying off for
people who are hooked on this feeling of plan, launch, cowabunga, repeat” 
More at Seth Godin’s blog.
[illustration via David Nava's Flickr]

Design Fiction has been on my mind as of late. Particularly after hearing Bruce Sterling’s thinking about it’s role in experience design, product innovation and technology as well as other’s speaking from a designers point of view at SXSW 2010.

What follows is a design fiction exercise, wrapping a narrative around thoughts about the weird, wired world we live in and the tremendous social implications it has for possible futures.  William Gibson I’m not, but digest this and tell me what you think it means to us now and possibly what it could mean for the evolution of the web.   Indulge me while I surf through themes of the social web, digital immortality, privacy, an open data world, artificial intelligence and more, not in a blog post commentary but instead in a blurb of storytelling.

I’m Jack Meta and I’m a repo man of the digital conscience.

Let me give you the 30 second update. Life got pretty weird for the bio-brains soon after the AI-Data Flux. Once the open-conscious hippies broke the Googleplex server-farm wall and data burst through the behavioral floodgates, meatspace humanity found itself standing around more naked than a politician post-sex scandal. Funny that nobody saw their personal Peyton Place hidden in all those facebook posts, tweets and ISP logs long ago. Just plain stupid that nobody figured their conscious would get reassembled from all that data, through code lumps that algorithm-geeks created in their hobbyist spare time. You can be damn sure no one would want think about little Bobby and Sue talking to your long “dead”, pixellated great grandood-self in a kitsch retro-quaint Ed Hardy shirt, your abrupt and embarrassing re-entry into the world 70 years into the future. They didn’t think of any of this, not until open-data and uber-AI hit them in the skull like a mallet anyway.

But I’m a bitstream myself, so far be it for me to judge what the bio-cell’s thought about the weird world of digital immortality back in the day. I’m just here to clean up their act once they hit the biological brick wall and surrender their brains and personal lifestream to the meta-sphere.

What’s my game? I’m an identity moving van pulling up to my client’s scattered persona-attics to steal back their life in little bits and bytes. Then I spit polish, metatag and redflag pieces of digital conscience so it ain’t so boring, confusing or just plain dirty once it hits the AI’s. Don’t get me wrong; I’m not much of a combinatorial artist so I leave your final coming out party good-looks to my persona stylist biz partners. It seems the cyberpunk jokers that plugged me into the meta-sphere to do this job secretly watched antique’s roadshow a hundred years back. Surfing through the digital-conscience flea market is in my genes.

Anyhoo, good meeting you mate and welcome to the ‘sphere. I can tell you’ll get the hang of things pretty quick once you shake that linear, cerebral cortex processing hangover. I’ve gotta get back to work to pull this boring experiencefreak.com assignment. Mundane crap I tell ya and a pisser given it hit my approval cue right before the Charlie Sheen assignment of a lifetime hit the market. Just my luck. Now that would’ve been hella more hilarious than this grey haired, tech-fetish archival and family photo-pixel antique show.

See you ‘round. And remember, watch where you leave your digital droppings now that you’re back in action.

More on design fiction:

Near Futures Lab

Interactions Magazine

An Essay on Design Fiction

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Hans Rosling rocks.  If you are not familiar with his work start here.

[h/t to Good and Len Kendall]

So whatever your world view, persuasion or location what is the equation?:

- ENTREPRENEURIAL OPPORTUNITY + SUCCESS = HAPPINESS

- COMMUNITY + SHARED VALUES = HAPPINESS

- CARED FOR + TIME TO CARE = HAPPINESS

- ACHIEVEMENT + MEANINGFUL CONSUMPTION + FAMILY = HAPPINESS

- ABILITY + MEANS + REWARD SELF +REWARD OTHERS = HAPPINESS

- CREATIVITY + PRODUCTIVITY = HAPPINESS

- SENSE OF PLACE + EQUITABLE VOICE = HAPPINESS

- BLIND FAITH + NARROW VISION + FEAR = FAIL

Much of this train of thought came from broader social themes from SXSW 2010 and of course the general angst and transformation around us.  But the real question is.. what do you think?

More on happiness:

Pew Research: Happiness: Republicans Still Happy Campers.

Happiness Project: http://www.happiness-project.com/

“Happiness Is” The Movie: Movie Trailer.

NEF: Happy Planet Index.

Happiness, Living and Working in the Moment with Tim Ferris.

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Danah Boyd’s Notes from SXSW 2010 Keynote: danah.org

Also thoughts on guard rail definitions for social network typologies here.

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